Quilting Tutorials — Beginner Quilter

We are celebrating Christmas in July with all sorts of fun snowflakes and Christmas garlands and plaid!  When designing a quilt, often times we'll come up with the design, and then go fabric shopping to fit exactly what we envisioned. With our Michael Miller Brand Ambassador projects, the fabric comes first! For this month, we knew we wanted a fun pattern that would easily adapt to any fabric collection you found and fell in love with. Buy the Pattern This design features Grandma's Christmas Wish with art by Petra Brown. If you want a more traditional Christmas quilt, this collection...

We love quick and easy holiday projects (because we are usually finishing them up last minute :D) and this week we are sharing one with you! What's even better, you could easily make this project out of your scrap bin and use up all the leftover batting from previous quilt projects. So grab some red, white, and blue fabric and join us to make a scrappy star garland perfect for all the summer holidays.   Scrappy Fabric Star Garland For this project we used 2 inch strips, but you really could use whatever you have on hand. If you have...

How to Make Quilt as You Go Placemats While we love making quilts and will gladly spend weeks sewing up a project, sometimes we need a quick and easy quilting project we can finish in an afternoon. When those projects can be made from scraps, it’s even better! We now get a mental break and a chance to destress and have a practically free project at the end. Another bonus to these small projects, is using up batting scraps. We always end up with strips of batting cut off of our quilts after they are finished. We have an entire...

Pre cuts are some of the most convenient, time-saving fabric options available! Most of the cutting and even picking fabric is done for you. We also love that you can get an entire collection affordably with one of these fun sets. This week, we are going to work with 2 jelly roll packs to put together a modern quilt top that is quick and easy and can be completed in only a few hours.   What is a Jelly Roll? A jelly roll can be called by different names, but ultimately what we are looking for is a roll of...

How to Easily Baste Your Quilt Most of us have steps of the quilting project that we really don’t enjoy. Basting is that step for me. I love having it done so I can move on to quilting, but the thought of crawling around on the floor and trying to keep the quilt flat and wrinkle free is very daunting. Luckily, I don’t have to worry about that anymore! With the simple addition of 3 cheap pool noodles, I’m now able to baste our quilts quickly and easily on the dining room table, no knee or back pain required.  ...