Good Morning, Quilters!
It’s a busy week here at The Inbox Jaunt! Tomorrow my new Craftsy video, Creating a Quilting Plan: Approaches for Any Quilt is released! Be sure to check in tomorrow for all the details!!!!
And today we have a giveaway!
I LOVE HOME BLOCK OF THE MONTH
Block 4 is available HERE from Jacquelynne Steves
Block Four is the final block. Next month we add borders and finishing touches!
While you are stitching the blocks, it is helpful to start planning how you will quilt different areas of the quilt. Each area of the quilt will need it’s own “quilting plan” including batting, thread and motifs.
WHICH MOTIFS TO CHOOSE?!
There are so many possible motifs to quilt, we need to narrow the focus.
One way to choose motifs is to stick to a theme.
For this quilt, I looked for motifs that fit our I Love Home theme like hearts and houses.
The Sweetheart Border and Row Houses are perfect for the borders. Find the Sweetheart Border HERE and the Row of Houses HERE
Both motifs can also be found in my book, Free Motion Machine Quilting 1-2-3 HERE on Etsy (Personalized, signed copies make great gifts!)
To test your motifs, use a vinyl sheet and a wet erase marker.
Read HERE for more tips on this method.
OLFA GIVEAWAY!
This month’s prize is from Olfa– a cutting mat, rotary cutter, and package of Endurance blades. Olfa mats come in a variety of sizes and I have used them for more than twenty years! Thank you, Olfa for transforming quilting with rotary blades and mats and for this fabulous giveaway!
To enter, please tell us YOUR biggest quilting challenge. Is it planning the quilting, choosing the motifs, picking the right thread…or is it something else? Leave a note in the comment section by the end of the day on November 9th.
***Please note that this giveaway is open to US winners only this time, due to shipping costs.
MORE CHANCES TO WIN
There are seven other quilters participating in the I LOVE HOME project. Be sure to see their blocks and enter their giveaways for more chances to win!
- The Crafty Quilter
- The Inbox Jaunt
- Designs by Sarah J
- Farmhouse Quilts
- Penguin and Fish
- Podunk Pretties
- The Quilting Nook
- The Sewing Loft
Good Luck!
Tomorrow: Turn YOUR UFOs into completed heirloom quilts with —Creating A Quilting Plan: Approaches for Any Quilt!
Happy Stitching,
Lori
PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and are intended for personal use only. Feel free to re-blog, pin or share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt. For all other purposes, please contact me at lckennedy@hotmail.com. Thanks!
590 comments
Susan Gray
quilting is sometimes an issue for me, need more practice
Julie S
Choosing how to quilt my tops! Have trouble seeing a vision!
Rachael
My biggest challenge is the actual quilting. I am new to the game so that is a work in progress.
susuquilts
My biggest challenge is getting the quilt quilted. I am still doodling to work on FMQ skills.
Barb H.
If it is a small quilt and I’m not sending to a longarmer. It is deciding on how to do simple quilting. Don’t even attempt free motion. Just using some ingenuity in straight line quilting.
Elizabeth McDonald
My biggest challenge is quilting full-size quilts by machine.
Pam Cummins
just started quilting and love it. my biggest challenge for me right now is my long arm. I keep having problems getting the tension set correctly. A little frustrating but once I get it I am loving it!!
Sue
Two biggest challenges: I really hate the sandwiching process, it’s a pain no matter how you do it; planning the quilting…but I just signed up for your mini-class.
Susan Shaw
My biggest challenge to quilting a quilt is turning the motifs. If a quilting motif is to be turned 45, 90, or some other number of degrees, I panic when it comes time to do that. I am challenged when it comes to rotating. I guess I need to sketch it on the quilt. I took a class in gifted education in my masters program and we took IQ tests. When it came to the part of the test to rotate objects in our head and chose the answer, I could feel my blood pressure start to rise and the anxiety set in. Spatial intelligence certainly is not my forte and I know it. And to top it off, I had a brother who ridiculed me for it which made it worse. I have also had cancer and the chemo affects that part of my brain as does fibromyalgia. So, I tend to pick very, very easy straightforward boring motifs. Thanks for the chance to win a great giveaway!
Edna Kidd
Planning the quilt design..
Lee Ann Marsh
my biggest challenge is trying to machine quilt my projects when finished especially the larger sized ones
bookboxer
I’m still fairly new to this quilting adventure, so almost anything is a challenge. I guess that actually FINISHING something is always a challenge for me, though. Thanks for the giveaway.
Debbie G
Congratulations on your new Craftsy class!! My biggest challenge is Just do it! I am a new quilter, and have pieced 2 quilt tops. Practiced quilting. Watched videos on quilting. Read books on quilting. Practiced some more. I just need to make my sandwiches and get them on the machine.
MaryLou
Probably choosing what to quilt and which thread will look like you want it to.
Decisions Decisions can sure eat up your time to play.. thanks for such a super
giveaway…
neese36
My biggest challenge is planning the quilting design. Then I have to get over my fear and actually quilt it!
Kelly Gallagher
I’m new to quilting so I’m still very nervious about free motion on a finished project. I don’t want to mess up all my hard work. Still working on this.
Terri
My biggest challenge is planning the quilting. I’ve only been doing my free-motion quilting for a short time and it takes me what seems like forever to decide on what designs to do.
Barbara Johnson
My biggest challenge is deciding what quilting motif to use!
Lanetta
My biggest challenge and what I put off is sewing on binding.
Dee
Choosing the motif is definitely the most challenging
Kellie Warren
My biggest quiltibg challenge has always been deciding how to quilt the quilt. But recently while quulting a large quilt on my domestic machine, which i have done hundreds of times, I struggled with the weight of the quilt and my own strength even moving the quilt under the needle. I have Lupus and arthritis and a hist if other issues and i am relatively young. So I am having to come to terms with the fact that i may have to make my quilt tops and send them off to be quilted. Tough stuff for this girl!! Quilting them is my favorite part.
Nancy Pleimann
Planing the Quilting. Nancy P.
Gail
My biggest challenge is finding time to quilt.
dianne pilotte
I am a newbie to quilting and my biggest challenge is choosing the right thread and I am embarrassed to say but squaring up my fabric has been a challenge.
Sheree C
My biggest challenge is finishing my quilt tops, making time for this. I have been getting much better at this though.
Pam Crane
My least favorite part of making a quilt is the actual quilting part.
Shirley C
My biggest challenge is layering and quilting.
Julie Bailey
Choosing the right quilting motif/design is sometimes the hardest part.
Janet Jones
I haven’t done any quilting yet, but am excited to learn.
Judy
My biggest challenge; finishing my quilt tops – quilting and binding!
susanh363
????my biggest challenge? Choosing my classes at the Houston Quilt Festival each year!!!!
Robin in New Jersey
My biggest challenge is finding space to spread out and be able to leave everything and not have to pick everything up before I am done.
Linda Coleman
I am relatively new to quilting and want to learn to coordinate colors better and just starting to look at free motion. It scares me. I’m going to check out your book on eBay though. And oooh, the Olfa giveaway would be WONDERFUL. I have a large Olfa cutting mat and rotary cutter. Would LOVE the folding one!
Deb
Stems on a ribbon quilt. Fusible bindings were not the right color
KAREN BARRIE
Love your work and design…Inspires me to want to sit and my machine…close the door and let the free spirit come out….Beautiful !!!
cherriberi1
I usually have a hard time deciding just ‘what’ quilting to use. I end up stippling a lot because I can’t decide.
tdgilley
Machine quilting consistency is my hardest part. I am slowly getting better.
Carolyn Knight
As a longarm quilter my greatest challenge is deciding on the designs I will use on a quilt.
Sue I
my biggest challenge is picking a quilting design-I’m planning on taking some of your craftsy quilting classes
Kimberlee Ratzlaff
That 1/4 inch can throw you off so often if you are not diligent about it. I am seriously considering a new chapter for 2018. Working full time for the government is starting to take more than I want to give these days. I just want to quilt!
Valerie
Biggest challenge… being a beginner, the courage to start! I’ve got the ‘will’ of Dorothy..,the ‘talent’ of Toto. Shall I continue?!?! In need a wizard ❤️
nosbcoach
Time…that is the biggest challenge, between working full time and taking class for a Masters degree…ugg there is so little time for anything else, but I get my binge quilting time in.
Janet Alford
My biggest challenge is choosing fabrics.
TJ Dodds
Learning to quilt on my sewing machine
Nannie
My biggest challenge is the quilting.
Debra Holstine
I bought a sit down quilter, so I would have to say quilting is my biggest challenge.
HollyAnnW
My biggest problem right now is not having a place to set up my sewing machine. But I also get myself in trouble by not thinking through each step of construction. Example: cutting my batting to the size of the pieced center and then remembering I’m supposed to add borders and do the quilting with batting cut generously beyond those edges. 🙁
Janice James
Planning the quilting is my biggest challenge. It takes a while, but I am usually pleased with the end results.
Geri A
My biggest challenge is always finding the time to sit down for an uninterrupted period of time.
Tonya Flores
My biggest challenge is finding the time. Oh for more hours in the day!
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