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FreePatterns.com Top 5 Downloads Questions? Read our privacy pledge. Copyright © 2015 Annie's. All rights reserved. Privacy/Security | Terms of Use How to design quilt patterns: quilt settings Do you know how to design quilt patterns? You may think it’s a simple yes or no question, but if you answered no, think again. It’s something many quilters do, once they feel daring enough to jump off the pages of a step-by-step pattern. It’s amazing how many different things you can do with a single block design. Traditional Churn Dash: “Churned-Up Geese” and “Zigzag” by Lynn Roddy Brown, from Simple Strategies for Block-Swap Quilts Churn Dash goes country: “Chocolate-Covered Churn Dashes” and “Over, Under, Around, and Through” by Cheryl Wall, from Country Comforts Churn Dash gets wonky: “Power to the People” by Cheryl Brown, from Quilt Batik! Churn Dash a-la Kim Diehl: “All in a Row” from Simple Comforts Turning a stack of blocks into a showstopping quilt might seem a little intimidating, but it’s an important first step when learning how to design quilt patterns. QUILT SETTINGS: excerpted from The Quilter’s Quick Reference Guide by Candace Eisner Strick Straight Quilt Settings Bar Sets
Amish Quilt Patterns - Free Easy Patterns for Quilters Use modern supplies like fusible webbing to position and secure your appliqués to the quilt. Use a simple zigzag or satin stitch to conceal the raw edges of the appliqué pieces. Hand stitching is the traditional method and the edges are finished with decorative embroidery. Choose from many different Amish quilt patterns from around the web: Amish Basket A pattern for a 15" quilt block with the basket made on the diagonal. Amish Star Block This block measures 12" square and is a traditional design. Amish Dahlia Here's a quilt with borders that mirror the rows around the blocks and cutouts as bed posts. Amish Boxes The block this month will consist of a black tone-on-tone fabric and a color tone-on-tone fabric. Crazy Amish Quilt This makes a 6" or 9" block and is paper pieced. Amish Star This quilt has four blocks by five, with sashing strips of the background color and a pieced border of random colored rectangles and squares.
Amish Quilting Patterns When you think of Amish quilting patterns, "bold" and "geometric" may be the words that come to mind. These beautiful quilts can be seen on nearly any clothesline in western Pennsylvania and other areas of the country with large Amish populations. Yet, pieced quilts were not made by the Amish until after 1870 because they were considered too worldly. Amish Quilts Evolve The first Amish quilts were made in a solid color, normally blue, brown, black, or rust. Until the 1940s, the quilts were generally made from wool. The patterns continued to become more intricate adding well known patterns like: Nine PatchAround the WorldSunshine and ShadowBaby BlocksStar of BethlehemTree of LifeDresden Plate Galleries of Amish Quilting Patterns Reading about the patterns and actually seeing them are two different things. The Branch Hill Joinery features a collection of quilts that make for great inspiration.PBase has a large collection of Amish Quilts. Choosing Colors for Amish Quilts Free Amish Patterns
Quilting Assistant : Free Quilt Patterns & Tips And Hints Scrap Quilt Patterns and Quiltmaking Tutorials Tutorial Design a Watercolor Quilt Tutorial on Designing a Strip Pieced Watercolor: Rather than re writing this info, here are the links for a 3 part tutorial to create a strip pieced watercolor lap quilt or wall hanging. Part 1 Part 2Part 3Frequently asked questions and posts with answers. Links to posts that may answer your questions or provide the details you need. Strings and Watercolor post Selecting Fabrics for watercolor Blending fabrics More questions on watercolorDesign Guide for the Cascade wall hanging New: Added August 2014 For a wall hanging using gridded interfacing foundation:Interfacing for the foundation **New: Updated info on gridded interfacing January 2015 ** Update: Pellon is no longer producing the 2" gridded interfacing, only the 1" grid. I use the 2 inch gridded interfacing for my watercolors. Fabrics Florals, and more florals. A note on the background color of the fabrics: Avoid bright yellow and red backgrounds as they do not blend well. Cut 2 inch squares. The home stretch!
How to Make a Watercolor Quilt What is a Watercolor Quilt? Traditional quilts use different colors and shapes to make patterns. Watercolor quilts use the intensity of the colors and the values (light to dark) to create their patterns. Step 1 - Designing Start by drafting a design on paper. Step 2 - Sorting Organize your 2" x 2" squares into three piles: dark, medium and light. Arrange your dark, medium and light squares based on your design. Step 4 - Finishing Piece together, quilt and bind. Resources If you don't have lots of brightly colored floral fabrics, you can buy a set of 200 pre-cut 2" x 2" squares. Here are some watercolor quilts that I designed and made: Watercolor Sunset Watercolor Swirl Uptown Downtown If you've made a watercolor quilt, please post a link to a photo of it in the comments section.
Easy Quilting with Chain Pieced Strips How to make a quilt block using chain pieced strips: From a variety of different fabrics cut sixteen strips each about 3in–4in (7.5cm–10cm) long and 1in–11/2in (2.5cm–4cm) wide. Chain stitch the strips together in pairs. Snip the threads and press each pair open. Randomly pair up the units and then chain stitch them together. Snip the threads and press open. Repeat until you have a complete row. Make two or three more rows in the same way, varying the width of the rows. Now stitch all the rows together. That’s one block completed! This project was excerpted from Quilt Improv by Lucie Summers.
Binding Tutorial I receive many queries regarding quilt binding, specifically machine stitching the binding, and would like to clarify a few technical, but not difficult, binding matters. I almost always make continuous cross-grain binding, There are several very informative tutorials available online which are clear and easy to follow. I particularly like the instructions given by Amanda from Crazy Mom Quilts in her quilt binding tutorial which can be found here. I do have a few of my own tips, things that work well for me: To determine the length of continuous binding needed I measure the quilt top and side, multiply by two, and add at least 25 inches. I cut my binding strips 2.25 inches wide, quite narrow as I prefer the look of a narrow binding. I join the binding strips with a diagonal seam as follows: Joining binding strips end to end . By piecing strips together with a diagonal seam you avoid having too much bulk in the one spot along your binding. I join the ends together with a diagonal seam: