Quilting Tutorials — Inspiration

How to Make a Portable Design Wall

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags Inspiration, Quilting Supplies, Tutorial

How to Make a Portable Design Wall

How to Make a Portable Design Wall In our previous house, I had two spaces dedicated to quilting, one for my long arm, and one for my domestic machine. This meant lots of space for a big design wall and to have all my quilting supplies set up all the time. Unfortunately with our recent move, it’s meant downsizing and I don’t have those spaces anymore. I’ve found a need to setup more temporary spaces, but I’m not willing to sacrifice functionality. Enter, the portable design wall! This projects is quick, easy, cheap, and creates a space for me to...


How to Free Motion Quilt Spiral Squares

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags FMQ, Free Motion Quilting, Inspiration

How to Free Motion Quilt Spiral Squares

How to Free Motion Quilt Spiral Squares 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 easy spirals squares.   Where To Use a Spiral Square Quilting Motif My favorite place to use this motif is in...


How to Make Quilt as You Go Placemats

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags Beginner Quilter, Free Patterns, Holiday, Inspiration

How to Make Quilt as You Go Placemats

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...


Crackle – Michael Miller Flower Fairies

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags Fabric, Inspiration, Quilt Pattern

Crackle – Michael Miller Flower Fairies

Crackle – Michael Miller Flower Fairies We created this project as Michael Miller Brand Ambassadors. We are provided fabric collections and then get to create whatever we can imagine from them! Whenever we get a new box of fabric from Michael Miller, it’s like Christmas morning. We know what collections we could get before it arrives, but we don’t know which one we will receive. When we opened this box of fabric last month from Michael Miller, my 4 year old immediately claimed them! Flower Fairies designed by Frederick Warne is a whole pile of adorableness and perfect for my...


I Spy Blog Hop

Kimberlee Tanner

Tags Foundation Paper Piecing, Inspiration, Quilt Pattern

I Spy Blog Hop

Much of our year has been working on the biggest project we’ve done to date. When we decided we were going to self publish a book, we had no idea it would be like birthing a baby. It’s been 100% worth it though and we have learned so much! We have appreciated all the love and support for this project and are so excited to announce our first book tour! We have an amazing line up of quilters that have been sewing up blocks from our I Spy book to share with you. There are so many cute blocks and...