Ruler Quilting on a Baby Quilt

Published: Mon, 07/03/17

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Welcome to July! If you live in the United States, we hope you're having a nice long holiday weekend. Happy upcoming Fourth of July!
New Triple Tulip Block Pattern and Piecing Video
Triple Tulip
It's time to jump back into patchwork and learn how to piece and quilt this fun Triple Tulip quilt block!

Click Here to find this new quilt pattern.

This quilt pattern will definitely improve your patchwork skills as you cut and piece half square triangles, then combine shapes to create the vase, stem, and flower units.

To machine quilt this flower block, you'll learn how to quilt a simple Feather Shell design in the flowers, fill the background of the block with Pebbling, and play with more ruler foot quilting in the vase.

Whether you're just getting started with quilting or you've been making quilts for years, this quilt block will teach you many new skills and give you the chance to try multiple free motion quilting designs in one block.

There are a lot of little pieces with these three flower blocks which can feel overwhelming. Take your time cutting, label your pieces, and arrange the shapes on a table top near your machine so you don't get confused by how it goes together.

Another thing that really helps is piecing the flower block together in units: the vase, the stems, and the flowers.


Since we're halfway done with the Flower Festival quilt, I've also included information on how to connect your quilt blocks together with binding strips so you can put half of your quilt together this month.

Bonus Challenge

If you'd like to win the pattern for Block #8 for free, here's a fun Flower Festival challenge for July:

1. Piece and quilt six blocks for the Flower Festival quilt.
2. Connect all six blocks together using the instructions included in the Block #7 quilt pattern.
3. Shoot a picture of your quilt and post it to the Block Party Facebook Group. We'll have a specific pinned post for you to share your photos so it's easy to find.

Post by July 31st and you'll receive the pattern for Block #8 for free on August 1st.
Ruler Quilting a Baby Quilt and Sale on Dresden Plates
Ruler work quilting
It's time to finish up our baby quilt project.

I had one last little corner to quilt and I decided to fill it with straight lines. The easiest way to quilt lines like this is to switch to a ruler foot and use a straight ruler to guide the quilting.


In this video I attached a ruler foot to the Grace Qnique and used a thicker style ruler I had cut specially for quilting on my longarm.

You need to use a thicker ruler for this type of machine because the foot hops and could potentially jump on top of a thinner ruler. If you'd like this ruler created for your longarm, we'll need to special order a set of thicker templates for you. Click Here to contact us about the templates.

However, if you have a home sewing machine, you can use the Dresden Plate Template Set exactly as it's cut right now.

Dresden Template Set
For this week only, we're putting the Template Set on sale for $44.99. That's $15 off the usual price of $59.99!


I'm currently working on a new set of quilting rulers that will be available in both a thin version for home machines and thick version for longarms. I love quilting with rulers because it's easy and fast and creates perfect lines every time.

I also attached True Grips to the back of the ruler to stop it from shifting on the quilt. Because we're guiding the quilt under the needle, you need to be sure the ruler doesn't slip as you move the quilt and ruler at the same time. 
Learn How to Quilt Split Personality
Split Personality
Last month I was playing around with new walking foot designs and stumbled across a very simple combination - straight and curvy lines. Immediately I realized this combination would be super simple and easy to quilt. Truly it's the best Split Personality.


I created this design when I was working on Sheri Cifaldi Morrill's first Road Work quilt. 

I was looking for a very simple design that was more than straight lines, but not too wild and crazy which would be distracting on this simple modern quilt.

I quilted that version using ruler foot quilting and Template #6 from the Dresden Plate Template set on sale this week, but I want you to see that you can also quilt this design free hand using normal free motion quilting. 

Split Personality is a super simple combination of shapes, but I think there's a lot of room to play with this design. 

That's it for this week! We hope you enjoy the new Block pattern and these new quilting designs.

Until next week, let's go quilt.

Leah Day