Quilting Tutorials — Inspiration

We are back for more quilting ideas! You may be wondering if I’m running out of different ways to quilt blocks, but I can assure you, that will never happen. You may have started to notice that for the most part, I use a core base of quilting ideas for most of my designs, but there are so many different ways to combine them and create an endless list of ideas. I’m hoping this is encouraging to you, especially if you are new to free motion quilting. You don’t have to master everything to be good at it, just master...

The perfect quilt to help reduce the size of your scrap bin.  

How to Make a Gradient Circle Flower Quilt If you love gradients as much as we do, this is a super fun and easy project to show them off. There are no fancy templates or drawing skills required. This block makes a really fun mini quilt, or you could combine them to make place mats, table runners, or a full quilt. We are going to show you some of our favorite rulers for cutting circles, but they aren’t necessary. We also share a super simple way to get the circles you’ll need. Watch the video for the tutorial and check...

Citrus Grove Quilt Pattern Citrus Grove is our newest quilt pattern released last week! Buy the Pattern This is a fun and easy scrap friendly quilt pattern. It is perfect for the confident beginner quilter ready to tackle curves. The size of the quilt blocks is great for getting comfortable with curves without being too small and finicky.   Buy the Pattern Fabric Selection: This quilt came almost entirely from our scrap bin. Each citrus blossom is made from 2 different prints of the same color, one dark and one light. You could also use large and small prints to help...

How to Quilt Half Square Triangles In our never-ending quest to answer the age old questions “how do I quilt it?” we are back with more ideas for block 4 from our free Online Quilting Bee. This month we focused on half square triangles. These nifty blocks can be put together in so many ways, which also leaves countless ways to quilt them. When deciding how to quilt the block, you can treat each triangle as it’s own element, or ignore the seam lines and focus on the shapes they create.   Quilting Plan 1 In this first idea, we...