Quilting Tutorials — Inspiration

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...

In a quest to actually finish all our quilts (it’s hard to snuggle under a quilt top), we are sharing a new free motion quilting motif with you each month. These are simple motifs that can easily be tackled by a beginner. Grab a practice quilt sandwich and some extra thread and try it out. You may just find a new favorite quilting motif! This month, we are learning how to quilt abstract flowers. Where To Use the Abstract Flower Motif This quilting motif fits really well in defined, real or implied, shapes. I like to use it in squares, but it...

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...

This quilt isn't new, but as one of my absolute favorite patterns, I was delighted to remake it in one of Michael Miller's basics, Hash Dot! This fabric collection is perfect for all those tone on tones you are looking for. The mix of lights and darks in each print adds depth and texture to your finished quilt and they have so many colors to choose from, 46 to be exact! For this pattern, you'll need 6 different colors. You can do a basic rainbow, or pick and choose for your recipient. Due to the scrappy nature of the pattern,...

We were so excited when Kristy asked us to participate in the Blog Tour for her new line Dream with Riley Blake Designs. If you follow Kristy at all @quietplay you know she is all about rainbows and bright and just amazingly fun fabric. Basically everything we love! There are so many different colors and prints in this collection, we didn't even use them all. When it came to designing a quilt, we decided on something fun and playful and easy! We wanted something that really showed off the fabric and something we could create a rainbow with. It's hard...