Quilting Tutorials — Beginner Quilter

Walking Foot Quilting for Beginners

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags Beginner Quilter, FMQ, Quilting, Walking Foot Quilting

Walking Foot Quilting for Beginners

Walking Foot Quilting for Beginners We are back with more walking foot quilting ideas! This week, we have picked out 3 grid based quilting designs that are perfect for the beginner quilter. If you have never quilted a quilt, or are new to walking foot quilting, choose one of these designs to get your feet wet. After you’ve practiced them, you can add on and alter them to create many different options. First a couple tips to keep in mind for walking foot quilting: It’s a walking foot, don’t try to go too fast. If you do, the fabric won’t...


How to Accurately Attach Quilt Borders

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags Beginner Quilter, Quilting Basics, Tutorial

How to Accurately Attach Quilt Borders

How to Accurately Attach Quilt Borders When we first started quilting, we’d finish a top, sew the border strips together, line it up along the edge of the quilt and add it. After it was sewn on, we’d trim it off to match. This was quick and easy, BUT, we noticed that most of our quilts had extra fabric and waves. The corners were never quite square. We assumed it was just the way that fabric stretches and pulls with no thought of the way we did the borders being an issue. I simply dealt with it during the quilting...


How to Resize a Quilt Block

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags Beginner Quilter, Inspiration, Tutorial

How to Resize a Quilt Block

How to Resize a Quilt Block Every once in a while, we fall in love with a block and want to be able to make it in all sorts of different sizes! This week, we are breaking down the steps you’ll need to take in order to resize blocks up, down, or sideways. Okay, maybe not sideways. The first thing to keep in mind, is we do not want to change the size of the 1/4″ seam. When dealing with square and rectangle pieces, before you change the size, subtract 1/2″ for the 1/4″ seam on both sides. Then we...


Kids Can Quilt! Bonus Lesson

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags Beginner Quilter, Free Patterns, QAL, Tutorial

Kids Can Quilt! Bonus Lesson

Now that your quilt top is done, you are almost ready to snuggle up under it. Before you can do that though, we need to quilt it! What makes a quilt a quilt is fabric and batting all put together in three layers. Right now the top layer is done, so we are ready to add the other pieces.   Backing and Batting Requirements When quilting a quilt, you want your backing and batting to be a few inches bigger than your quilt top. This will make sure you don’t run off an edge. For this quilt, you’ll want 1...


Kids Can Quilt! – Day 5

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags Beginner Quilter, Free Patterns, QAL, Tutorial

Kids Can Quilt! – Day 5

Kids Can Quilt! – Day 5 We are on the final day of our special series Kids Can Quilt! Can you believe we are almost done? We really hope you’ve enjoyed this week and learned some new things. We absolutely love quilting and are so thrilled we could share it with all of you! If you liked quilting, keep going! There are so many fun patterns and projects out there that you can work on. You could make another disappearing 9 patch with different fabrics, find an easy quilt pattern to tackle, or even create your own design! Take some...