Just beating those seams and stitching in AIR!!!!

Hi! Does anyone know if somewhere in Canada carries the brand "American Made Cotton" I need more of the Mojito color but Dressew in Vancouver, BC, Canada doesn't carry it anymore.

Hello!

My mum has gotten back into quilting after a stroke and is on her ~20th quilt in less than 2 years! She is currently hand quilting over 1000 hexagons!

What would be the best practical item you have that you wouldn’t have thought to buy but now cant live without?

Or an incredible coffee table book?

Thanks!

I would like to add a border around this but I can't decide what blocks / colors would like nice. Would love to hear any suggestions!!

I'm wondering what quilting lines I should do. This is going to be a pillowcase for my mother in law. I'm a beginner so things aren't lined up perfectly. I'm planning on using my regular sewing machine to quilt it. I feel like wavy lines could be fun since they wouldn't need to line up with the piecing.

Currently working on my first full quilt (12×15 squares, 4×4 inches each!) I overestimated the sizing and was hoping this would fit a queen but I'm still content as long as my cats can enjoy it :)

So, I decided to open the UFO drawer and found cut pieces for a Christmas quilt. Fussy cut the Christmas cowboy squares. Have strips 4 greens and 4 reds. Also 3” red squares. Have looked hi/low for the pattern book realizing with a sinking feeling that I donated a bunch of quilt books to local charities. Yikes!

What is it called when you surround theme blocks to make a quilt? Then I can google patterns and try to salvage these cut pieces. still kicking myself

Im making a square in square quilt with Nightmare Before Christmas fabric. I tried to lay it out so no two patterns were next to each other. I’m not sure if the pattern will look good once I use the background colors with it. Or if I should lay them out differently. Maybe it’s the placement of the orange squares that are throwing me off? I am doing 8 x 6 rows to fit over my couch.

I don’t want to hate it when it’s done. Any advice would be appreciated because I’m stuck at this step.

I tried to google it, but so much comes up whenever you google anything quilting. This a very varied craft!

Any help appreciated. My first hopeful project with this is to trim the bottom of some jeans, so starting very small and casual. 😄🧵

I found this beautiful precut fabric at a charity shop and thought it would be a perfect way to get started. But I don't know what this amounts to, in terms of a quilt.

In total, there are 316 5-inch blocks (I sent the photo above to my mom, then found a few more off to the side after I got off the phone). Right now, I'm thinking 9-patch, or even 4-patch (since many of the sorted colors are in quantities of 4) with black or white.

Thoughts?

Hi! I am sorry if this is not the right thread to post this in or if I missed if someone has asked this before, but I am working on my first puff quilts right now (one for myself and one as a gift) and I am close to finishing mine (using it as a learning experience so the second one is a bit better) but I am just not sure about washing them.

I have tried looking online and have seen some sources say to only spot clean as needed or to dry clean, but I have also seen things that say it is fine to wash in the washing machine on a delicate cycle with cold water then things seem split between air drying it or putting it in the dryer. I have just put so much time into them so far that I am scared to ruin it all by washing them wrong.

If it helps for reference here is some information about the quilt/how I am doing it all: the puffs are all made of cotton fabric, I used the Original Poly-fil Premium Polyester Fiber Fill in the puffs, I will be using a dot minky fabric for the back (sewing it inside out then flipping it the right way so it will not have a binding), it will be around a throw size (I’m guessing it’ll end up being around 45-46in wide x 55-60in long), and I am thinking about tie quilting it with embroidery floss to finish it (I have never finished a quilt this way so I would also really appreciate some feedback/thoughts on doing so)

Thanks in advance for any advice anyone has to share! (edit to add dimensions)

From cutting the pieces, to sewing them together, etc- how long does a typical quilt take? I’m wanting to make a quilt for my daughter (she’s 2) so it’s a smaller size. I saw the puff quilts but some people say bad things about those and the time commitment lol. I am a confident beginner but I’m having sewing machine issues so I am behind on starting. :) I was hoping to make this quilt for Christmas but it may need to be pushed back or take longer. I don’t want to stress myself but I also work well under stress….

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I’ve been working on a quilt to hang on my baby’s nursery wall. The instructions called for me to cut 2” WOF strips to sew between each ‘column’ of daisies. I did this, but when I got to using them in the pattern, my WOF strips weren’t long enough - they were about 3” too short - I needed up to 48” strips and mine were roughly around 43”. The fabric store only had just enough for me to do the quilt top when I bought the fabric, so I didn’t have any spare from that bolt to re-cut longer strips. When I realised that the strips were too short, I went back to the fabric shop and bought the same colour, but it doesn’t exactly match (see photo) and takes away from the background being all the same. The perfectionist in me hates this. It’s the first thing I’ve made for my first baby and I wanted it to be perfect. I think it will bug me every time I’m in her room, but I don’t know if I’m just overreacting. What would you do?

The pattern is ‘fresh as a daisy’ by Pen and Paper Patterns: https://penandpaperpatterns.com/en-au/products/pdf-fresh-as-a-daisy-quilt-pattern-1

No pic. I took a sheet with a pretty pattern on it (jungly green leaves), a layer of batting, and a white sheet for the backing. I pinned it all over and then free-motion quilted it with an ordinary sewing machine. I was very pleased with the result, and used it for years. Unfortunately, when it was in storage in a shed, rats chewed it up and it wasn't worth patching (plus rat-chewed, ugh) and I had to throw it out. Does an item like this count as a quilt?

I found a bag of 3” squares in the scrap bin at my local quilt shop. I hate cutting fabric, I love blue and this was cheap! So this felt like a win!

I had originally intended to just piece them together as is, but thought I would crowdsource from some crafty minds some possible patterns that could be made with these.

There’s not a huge amount of tonal variation between them, but I can go digging in my stash to introduce more tonal variation.

What would you make with these?