Quilting Assistant : Free Quilt Patterns & Tips And Hints 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. 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. Sort the squares into value--light, medium, and dark. I begin by deciding where my light is coming from, and which area I want light and which part darker. Second Photo: Now the entire dark edge is built.
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. The fabric is usually small squares or strips with brightly colored floral patterns. This post offers a brief description of how to design a watercolor quilt, it assumes that you already know how to make a quilt. 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.
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
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.
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. A quilter with a stack of freshly pieced blocks is much like a collage artist—you’ve got your artistic elements at the ready. But how will you put it all together? 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 QUILT SETTINGS: excerpted from The Quilter’s Quick Reference Guide by Candace Eisner Strick Straight Quilt Settings Bar Sets
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