Quilting Tutorials — Inspiration

Citrus Grove Quilt Pattern Citrus Grove is our newest quilt pattern released last week! 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. 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 set off the different shapes. The leaves...

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...

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...

How to Quilt a Star in a Star Block I’m really excited to share this weeks quilting ideas with you, because I’ll actually be quilting out one of the quilting plans! I have a quilt made from this months block all done and ready to go, so I’ll actually be stitching my design out. It’s always fun to create plans on paper, but so much more exciting to execute them and see how they look on an actual quilt. One easy way to get started with a star in a star block is to use the shapes that are there....

Spread the Light – Share the Love Quilt Block We have found ourselves in a situation we haven’t encountered before. We are all wondering how the current state of things and the spread of Covid-19 is going to affect us. When our Phoenix Modern Guild President, Kelli, reached out to us to see if we would be willing to design a block that our guild could sew this month while we are self isolating, we were happy to oblige. As we were coming up with something that would best represent this trying time, I couldn’t get one thing out of...