Hi, I started making my first t-shirt quilt five years ago. I have 3 squares cut out and ironed on to featherweight fusible interfacing. Now I'm reading that woven fusible interfacing is best, so I bought Pellon SF101 for the remaining t-shirt squares. Question: will that create a problem having two types of interfacing? I would like to avoid peeling off the featherweight fusible and replacing with SF101, if possible. It's only the 3 squares so fingers crossed! Thank you

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Hey friends, I need advice!

I wanted to gift my mom all the things she needs to make a complete quilt (pattern, fabric, backing, etc.) as she has made several comments about wanting to get into it! However, I am very much a beginner myself and am only just starting to make actual quilts. So here's the problem:

I purchased the Early Hours quilt pattern with the intention of getting her all the things she needed for the 72"x72" size. I fell in love with the Floradora fabric and so purchased a Fat Eighth bundle off of Etsy. HOWEVER, the Etsy seller just reached out and said she actually doesn't have it in stock :(((. She said she does have Layer Cakes and Jelly Rolls. But I don't know how those work with the pattern? Can they even be used for this pattern? The pattern is still in transit so I can't read the instructions to know & I'd like to be able to give the Etsy seller an answer soon because I have other fabric in that order that I need shipped to finish my first quilt lol.

All help / advice welcome!

Hi, I want to make hourglass blocks the easy way without making HST. I want my finished blocks to be 9 inches. So would I cut my blocks to be 9.5 inches or 10 1/2? I can’t seem to find the math for hourglass blocks without making HST. Appreciate the help! 🤗

Hey all! I just ordered all of the fabric for my first quilt! I thought I ordered all cotton fabric, but one piece (I was going to use for some of the front and all of the backing) is a 55% Linen 45% Cotton blend. Will this mess up my quilt? Or is this no big deal?

For my Noah’s ark quilt- I definitely messed up the traditional orcas white eye patch but that’s ok, he’s a regular whale now.

Image is from the Puhoy episode of Adventure Time.

Ever since I first saw this episode I have wanted this poncho thing that Finn wears in Pillow World and now that I’m getting into quilting my time has finally come! But I’m not sure where to start.

I think to get the same effect I would need to do puffs, but then I’m not sure if it would be better to try to make the flower designs by like EPP or something similar, or would that created odd tension in the puffs? If so maybe I could find a blue fabric with flowers on that would give the same effect visually.

You can’t see the neck of the garment at any point in the episode because of his beard so I guess it’s up to me to decide what type of opening I want but I’m not sure if a V or square share would be better.

Any advice or ideas are appreciated. I’ve never quilted a wearable before and I think this would be a pretty simply starting project since it’s basically a folded blanket with a neck hole, but I’m just unsure how to get started.

I just bought nine yards for $3.50/yard on average. Clearance + Coupons + Cred Card Cash back. Ordered and paid online, will pick up in person later. Worth a look!!

I want to make a jelly roll race quilt that finishes at 45" × 60", using the angled method of joining the strips and cutting about half the strips to random lengths. How many strips would I need?

Bit further along xx

Does anyone know of a Christmas bed quilt pattern? I know I could just use Christmas fabric but I want the quilt itself to say Christmas, if that makes sense.

Edit: I am looking for a pattern similar to the Christmas quilts Pottery Barn has now. One is a big tree and the other is a huge wreath. I want a center focus and then background/borders.

Images from Pottery Barn

Finished this on Thanksgiving day and it's not perfect but am pleased with it and how much I learned in the process!

Found this 1930s quilt on Etsy, and I adore the pattern. I’m having a lot of trouble finding a similar pattern.

Also this will be the second quilt I make, the first was the Lucky Stars quilt from Atkinson designs. I welcome any tips or tricks you have!

I was planning on upgrading my machine after Christmas but mine recently broke down. I've been looking into machines but it's all so overwhelming so I'm hoping someone can help point me in the right direction. I spend around 6 hours a day in my sewing room. I mostly quilt as of recently but I do still need to be able to make Halloween costumes and alter clothing. I need to keep it under 1000 CAD, I would love a needle down feature but it's not necessary, also would love if the feed dogs dropped. I don't have a dealer close by and I've been looking for a second hand one for over 2 years now and nothing has come up so unfortunately those aren't options.

I'm fairly new to quilting, so most things I just still don't even know about. That said, I recently get into making star quilts and started finding designs patterns more complex like "spiral star", but I am wondering if anyone has ideas about other sort of "designs" within the star like the spiral shape or suggestions about patterns that I can use? I'm quite terrible with picking patterned fabrics, but have gone ahead and posted a few works in progress.

Also, this doesn't entirely matter, but I'm a (super rare :P) male quilter so outside of a couple things I'm making for specific people, I don't care for pinks or such colors as much and don't care for what seems to be a lot of predominately "feminine" colors/patterns. Maybe it is due to my location (central Iowa), but so many of the patterned fabric options are fairly distinctly feminine, flowers and so on. And on that note, is there a way to make a quilt with patches that have flowers and still look fairly masculine? All I could really think of for that is maybe a light blue or green baby blanket that has patchwork flower tiles of that color? Sorry to make things so gendered in that way, but I just don't see (as) many quilts to be "inspired" by, I suppose.

My niece/ god daughter asked me to make a queen sized quilt for her bed. She chose some fabric (AGF “a year of petals”) and showed me a picture of a quilt she liked, a simple checkerboard with alternating white and patterned squares. My plan is 18 x 20 squares cut at 5.5”. That should work out to a finished size of 100 x 90 inches. She doesn’t want a border. There are three main colours in the line (green, blue and pink&yellow) so I thought I would strip piece wof colours with background and make four patches that I could then lay out either randomly or in colour/pattern groups (I could get her input at that point. I have a 1/2 yard bundle and 5 yards of background so lots of fabric to play with. I also bought the coordinating basics, which I thought I could use for a scrappy binding. I’m not a hugely experienced quilter, this is my 10th or so full size quilt. Anything I haven’t thought of? Other advice?

Making a "funky birds" quilt for friend having a baby. This is my first shot at the layout for the middle aplique section ( still very rough). Anything you think I should change regarding the colors or placement of the birds? Anything look out of place? Thanks for your help!

So, I've got all the materials for my first quilt. The fabric, the pattern (Stripped Chevrons Quilt Top by WñErica Jackman) and the tools. But I feel stuck in the start hell.

Where should I start from? Should wash my fabric first? And what kind of wash? Cut it and sew it directly?

Any and all tips for my first ever quilting project are welcome! What are the thing to watch out for that a newbie might not now?

Hey all! I may have to delete this because this is a gift, but i need advice on what you all would do

This is a completed quilt sandwich that is going to be a decorative pillow, but i am debating if i should:

A. Make this into a pillowcase and then make my own custom pillow for it, or

B. Just add backing, stuff with pillow fluff, bind and be done with it

Thanks, and all advice welcome :)

I took a free motion class yesterday from Swan Amity. Learned a lot, but thought I'd pass on a piece of advice that we all could use. She stated that when she makes a gift for someone, the only input she accepts from the recipient is the get to pick 1 color. Everything else, she decides. Mind Blown!