Hi ,

Remember, more videos for the Rainbow Log Cabin Quilt come out every Monday, but you can follow along and make this quilt anytime and work at your own pace.

Click Here for all the videos shared so far in our Quilt Along.

You'll also want to layer and baste the quilt top with batting and backing fabric to create the quilt sandwich.

Next week we will begin quilting the layers together as we stitch in the ditch between the quilt blocks.​​​​​​​

This past week I also shared the second walking foot quilting video - Crazy Lines. This fun design is very easy to quilt because the lines are spaced completely freeform across your quilt.

I used narrow masking tape as a guide, but you could also mark the lines of the design with fabric marking pens too. 

I've gotten some interesting questions on YouTube and Facebook this week along the lines of: "Leah Day is quilting with a walking foot? Why?"

I got curious about walking foot quilting a few years ago. I have watched so many beginners struggle to master free motion quilting that it just made sense to give walking foot quilting a try.

I'm so glad I gave walking foot quilting a chance because it is a much easier style of quilting to begin with. The machine and foot feed the quilt forward and create perfect, even stitches every time.

Hello My Quilting Friends! Today I'm chatting with my awesome quilting friend Christa Watson about piecing and quilting with precut fabrics. This just happens to also be the topic of Christa's new quilting book! Watch the episode below:

 Click Here to find Christa's newest book Piece and Quilt with Precuts. 

This is a terrific book for slicing into those precut packs you've stashed away so you can turn those nice fabrics into beautiful quilts. Best of all, piecing with precuts can be a lot faster and save you time in the cutting process.

The one downside is you can't prewash precuts and Christa and I talk through how to manage that at the end of the project. Christa doesn't like washing fabrics cut smaller than a fat quarter because they can distort and get weird on the edges. She does wash fat quarters in lingerie bags and that helps contain their tendency to fray on the edges.

Recently I pulled out the Winter Wonderland Quilt Pattern, a pattern I originally wrote in 2010. My writing skills (and quilting math) have both improved a lot over the years, so this pattern is due for a rewrite.

James and I had a photo shoot together this weekend before it got really cold again. He mostly shot pictures of the chickens and cats, but he shot a few of the quilt too.

Working on this has felt a bit like traveling back in time. It also reminded me how much I love this quilt and the unique technique Reverse Shadow Trapunto that's used to create the beautiful blocks.

Be looking forward to this new / old quilt pattern coming back to our quilt shop soon.

So that's it for this week! I hope you're enjoy this cold, calm time of the year and diving into many beautiful quilt projects. I do hope you'll join us for the Machine Quilting Party and learn more about walking foot quilting with me this year.

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day