Quilting Tutorials

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 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...

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 a circle border.   Where to Use the Easy Circle Border Since I’m calling this design a border, it is probably obvious that borders and sashing work great...

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...

How to Add a 3D Contrasting Border to Your Quilt Missy loves adding little 3d elements to our quilts. The best part is, they don’t have to be hard! This week we are sharing a quick and easy way to add a little peek a boo border to any quilt, creating a fun pop of color or extra frame around your design.   3D Contrasting Quilt Border This extra quilt border is easy to add to any of your existing quilt patterns. We only need to add one little step and don’t need to worry about altering the existing quilt...