Category Archives: Quilt Top Ideas

Apr12

Love of Family and Fabric – The Retreat Part 1 of 3

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Although no theme was mentioned or established for the 2014 Quilt Retreat, one emerged as the Stashing Sisters began working on their projects – FAMILY.

Most of the projects were for their families, either their own children or grandchildren.  The Sisters of the Quilt Guild all share the love of fabric and they also share love through fabric.

Jan27

California Quilting

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“Polynesian Paradise”
“Happy Wanderer”
“In Town in Flight”
“Asian Invasion”

These quilts are what our California Stasher has been busy with.   Very cool Cindy!!  This is only a portion of what she’s created.   She keeps trying to use up her stash but . . . it seems to keep growing.

Look for a second post in the future featuring more of Cindy’s creations.

Jan12

Pinwheels and Circles

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Pinwheels in a circle!  What a wonderful combination of shapes Tess created.Round Quilt

Tess is a long distance stasher.  She used a circle patterned fabric for the backing.

Back of Round Quilt

Back of Tess’s Round Quilt

To see details on how she put together this picnic quilt and other projects, visit her site, “MOTEMENA”.

Nov6

An Eye-Spy Quilt Project Kids Will Love

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Assemble an assortment of different novelty fabric squares. The fabric should contain images of items that children could recognize.   Squares can range from 2″ to 8″ depending on size of quilt and the number of individual fabrics you have. For example, a baby size quilt might need 48 five inch squares plus 1 1/4 yard of border fabric. That’s 48 different fabrics (you might want to find a buddy to share fabrics with on this one) .

Assemble squares 6 across and 8 down.  Add the border around it.  Embroider  the names of the items to be found in the border.  This could be done by hand, machine, or drawn with fabric marker.

Nov6

Simple Sisters and Brothers Pattern

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No, this is not about following the example of the person you share a pew with at church.  It’s about an easy quilt block pattern that has been used for many years, often called by other names such as ‘railroad’ tracks or ‘fence posts’.  In this case, make as many strips of different fabric as you have children or siblings.  The more strips, the narrower they should be, the fewer strips, the wider they should be, ranging from 3″ – 1.2″.  Sew the strips together and then cut into squares (the size of the square will depend on the width of your sewn together strips).  Then assemble the blocks in your desired design.

Of course, if you are so inclined, you could design the size of strips and blocks with paper, pencil, and creative effort.  What ever  works for you.

This pattern could be used for friends as well.  Each friend represented by a certain fabric.