Just got a call from a very upset and angry grandson. About 20 years ago, I made him an I-Spy quilt. Recently he lent it to a housemate who had no other bedding. (Something about being kicked out of her parent's home?)

He just got it back. Housemate let her pet rats chew it up.

I don't know how badly it's damaged. He says he'll bring it over tomorrow.

Commiserations invited.

Apparently she thinks I need a break

First of all, thank you to the member of this sub that posted a quilt with this pattern. I based mine off of that one, but can’t remember the person’s name to credit them.

I want to do straight lines, but my seams are very wonky….. I don’t want to emphasize how not straight my seams are.

Would diagonal lines be really weird?

I am a machine quilter and a beginner, so free motion is off the table for now.

Thanks in advance for any advice ❤️

I’m making a t-shirt quilt for a freind with all his old college/event t-shirts and I want to have a fleece backing. But I also want to add some extra shapes on the top to frame the shirts, I’m not sure what type of fabric to use, I feel fleece will be too thick but I don’t necessarily want to use cotton either. Any suggestions?

New quilter. This is my third quilt and is a memorial quilt for my dearest friend who lost her husband to cancer. She always called him her bear so I’m doing a bear claw pattern. I’m using a purple and blue fabric set so the blocks will start to shift in an ombré from this darkest purple to eventually a lilac and light blue.

I’m happy with my blocks so far (will need to square them up before adding the sashing.)

Here’s my question. What direction should I go for the sashing between the blocks? Yellow? Green? Something neutral like grey?

Colors are slightly skewed (craft room doesn’t have great light 😂)

Almost done!

I purchased a heather ross fat quarter bundle bc I absolutely love this collection. But I don't know what to do with it! Does anyone have a suggestion for a pattern that could showcase some fussy cuts from some of the fabrics with larger scale illustrations and also incorporate a lot of the smaller prints?

I’m making myself a quilt with some beautiful Starry Sky fabric. I want it full of moons, stars, and other celestial goodness! I’d love your pattern and block suggestions, and to see any of your finished quilts for inspiration! Thank you 🌙 ✨

I’m relatively new to using a walking foot and up until now I’ve had no problems at all, but I’m making a pencil case and noticed the walking foot was marking the fabric (right two lines) I’ve switched to my regular foot and no make (left line) it seems to be quilting fine with the regular one so I guess I’ll stick to that but I was wondering what has caused the marks and how can I avoid in the future?

After using the binding fabric from Suzy Quilts in the Frisky quilt, I had a request for some placemats and I used the same binding, and I learned things that make it less fiddly. I used scissors to cut the strips. I was wrong to say that you need to cut them on the outer cut lines-- go straight down the middle line. I am now convinced that binding should never be pressed in half. When the folded binding goes around the edge of the quilt, there will be less fabric on the underside and more on the outside. Leaving it uncreased gives a smoother result. As with all binding, I make sure my initial seam is exactly 1/4 inch from the edge. I press the binding away from the seam, but I'm careful not to crease the binding itself.

Back to the special binding fabric: the big takeaway is that it makes the most difficult part of binding easier for me. I struggle to get the binding strips folded over so the fold overlaps the initial seam by just the right amount so that stitching in the ditch puts the seam where I want it on the back. With this kind of pattern design, you let the pattern do that part for you. When clipping the binding before the second seam, I can just make sure that the pattern is showing the way it's supposed to. If you pull it too far or not far enough, the pattern will tell you right away.

I'm not from the US, but for a work trip I will visit Dallas. This will probably my only visit to the states in the foreseeable future and I want to visit a quilting store so badly. Now my time is extremely limited, but I might be able to squeeze a store visit into my schedule. How do I spend my time wisely? Without getting bankrupt?

I'm planning to buy freezer paper and I am curious to set a foot into a dollar tree. What else should I put on my bucket list?

Thank you some much for your suggestions in advance.

Grr oh well life goes on … I love designing patterns I don’t always like testing them and sometimes I do it at night time and there’s not enough light where o was working on it ….. let’s just say after a long night out partying she’s lost a glove … has anyone seen it ?

The quilt topper from a few weeks back 🐝 hand quilting and its getting uglier by the moment 😭

Hi all!

I’ll be making a quilt top featuring this maple leaf block from Lori Holt’s farm girl vintage book. I’m a beginner intermediate quilter.

Two questions. The shape is made of squares for the same size, and I’ll be needing a certain number of large and small variants of the blocks for my quilt top. All the cut pieces, despite large or small block, are the same sized square. How can I calculate how much fabric I’ll need for the quilt top, minus any borders? I’m from Australia and I’ll be using inches and metres for calculations, not yardage.

Also, this is a scrappy maple quilt block but I’ll be doing the leaves in a single colour, with a variation for the stem. I can obviously do whatever I like, but my question is, is there an identical block that requires less cutting? Not really looking for “hacks”, more asking if Lori’s design has been altered to make it scrappy style or if this is the most common/traditional variant of this block? I’ll be using 30s fabrics.

Thanks everyone! Hope I’m making sense and I appreciate your help with quilting map.

My mother made my roommate/bestfriend a queen sized quilt (I bought the fabrics and planned the layout but lacked the follow through) back in 2016. It has been in storage for the past 6 mo and when I went in the storage I saw it had a MASSIVE stain, maybe about 1/6 to 1/5 of the quilt is covered in it. My roommate says it wasn't stained when she put it away, and there is no sign of what caused the stain.

I took it down and started soaking it in oxyclean on tap cold water, some of the stain has lifted. I keep changing out the water every few hours. I also added two color catchers to the water, just in case. Left is the stained side, the right is the normal side in the picture below.

Material is predominately Northcott's Artisan Spirit Sandscapes in Moss/Apple Green and Lagoon/Atmosphere colorways. Pattern is Prismatic Quilt Pattern from Annies.

https://preview.redd.it/3g60oqa5j79d1.jpg?width=943&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad633e243fc98aeb5bb50a6e03ffe8dbaa10307e

I am a bright and modern Quilter usually. So traditional pattern and traditional fabric was quite different for me. But she's still a beauty!!!