Hello my quilting friend!
, we have a huge newsletter for you this week, so I'll get right to it:
First, I'd like to personally thank every quilter who emailed last week expressing interest in an
Eternal Love Quilt Along. I'm pleased to say we will definitely be sharing a video series quilt along, starting Early June.
Now for the big news: we have a fabric kit available for the Eternal Love quilt pattern. Make your own mother and child wall hanging with this
collection of beautiful batik fabrics from Island Batik.
The Eternal Love Quilt kit includes: - 2 packs Lite Steam a Seam 2
- Fat Quarter Fabric A (skin) - Island Batik Oatmeal*
- 3-inch square Fabric B (lips) - Island Batik Cherry**
- 3-inch square Fabric C (eye and eyebrow) - Island Batik Black**
- Fat Quarter Fabric D (shirt) - Island Batik Dandelion Jelly
- Fat Quarter Fabric E (hair 1) - Island Batik
Blueberry
- Fat Quarter Fabric F (hair 2) - Island Batik Waterfall
- Fat Quarter Fabric G (hair 3) - Island Batik Pool
- Fat Quarter Fabric H (baby blanket) - Island Batik Bermuda
- 2/3 yard Fabric I (background and binding) - Island Batik Moonstone
Note: You will need this pattern if you plan to take part in our June Quilt
Along.
I really hope you join us, . I promise you'll find this form of applique A LOT easier than what you may imagine, and hopefully you'll learn to love applique as much as I do.
Here's a little video showing some prep work and demystifying the process.
Connecting Large Blocks with Quilt As You Go |
I like big blocks and I cannot lie -- big quilt blocks that is!
You can quickly create a large quilt by piecing and quilting supersized quilt blocks.
When you connected quilted blocks together, that's
called Quilt-As-You-Go.
Yes, all of the blocks you'll see in the video linked below were quilted with walking foot quilting. Isn't that cool?
You can do amazing things with your walking foot and best of all, it's a very easy form of
quilting to master because the foot and your sewing machine do most of the work for you.
I have to admit I've gone a little "crazy" for walking foot quilting in the past two weeks. When you quilt last week's design Crazy Lines on top of itself, you'll create a Crazy Grid.
Weirdly enough, I find quilting random lines with walking foot quilting a bit challenging.
Because the foot is so large and because it's harder to see the quilt surface, I found I really needed to use tape to guide
the angles of the lines. Otherwise I'd naturally start echoing the line before using the edge of the walking foot as a guide.
But this may just one of those quirks about me. Give it a try and see how it works for you.
How to Plan Your Quilting Design |
One of my favorite quilters, Margaret Leuwen, is running a Quilt Along this year and guiding quilters through making a very pretty quilt called Sarah's Star. In quilting tutorial linked below, I'm planning a fun quilting design for Sarah's Star and guiding you through the
process of picking designs and planning the quilting process.
(And yes, this was one of the most popular asked-for tutorials from our little questionnaire several weeks back.)
Whose Quilt Is It, anyway? |
Our podcast last week I shared a fun quilting debate about quilt ownership.
Basically I'm asking the question - if you have someone work on your quilt (longarm quilting, binding, hanging sleeve, or piecing) does that change
who owns it?
Also in the podcast you'll see the awesome progress I've made on my Mother Earth cross stitch.
Isn't the thumbnail great? That's Dad and me fighting over our latest quilt, lol. Wow, that was a lot to catch up on! Don't forget to check out our new fabric kits for our upcoming Eternal Love Quilt Along. Once this limited number sells, it may be a month or two before we get can get enough fabric back in to recreate this kit.
Until next week, let's go quilt.
Leah Day |
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