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!
589 comments
Pat V
Planning the quilting is always my biggest issue. Where to start? What design to use? How much is enough? Guess I’ll be checking out your new class.
Barbara Daniel
i like to make realistic pictorial landscape quilts. For me the hard part is knowing the quilting lines to add to give it more realism, texture on trees and mountains, sky, and of course adding texture to the ground that looks like weeds etc. I really wish someone taught this form of quilting. I guess there aren’t enough people that want a class like this for a class at a show but Craftsy would be a perfect place for this. I talked to Nancy Prince about it and she teaches it occasionally she said.
Sarah Eheart
My biggest challenge is trying to decide which of the free motion stitches to use in most of the smaller quilts that I make. I have taken free motion classes from various well known teachers but they never add a section at the end to let us try to plan quilting on a small sample and give us feedback on if we are on the the right track with this specific quilt. A little critique would certainly be appreciated.
nancyangerer
I think my biggest problems are fear and time. Right now I am too busy to take the time to learn to FMQ, but fear of it is a big factor also.
Kay Rice
My biggest challenge is picking colors for my quilting projects.
quilterpt
Well congratulations on launching your latest Craftsy class. That’s exciting! My greatest quilting challenge is getting the tension right. I always seem to have dots of my bobbin thread showing on top.
Danette
My biggest challenge is quilting a large quilt. I love them, though, and I want to do everything myself. I use my walking foot and manage to get them done. I cannot do FMQ. Thank you, peterstankovich@comcast.net
Ava Troxler
My biggest challenge is sandwiching the quilt. There isn’t enough space in my home, that allows for my back limitations , for angthing larger than a small piece.
Gay Agan
My biggest challenge is deciding on the quilting motif for each section of the quilt.
Jennifer P
My biggest challenge is picking a fabric with too big of a design and how to best work with that fabric in a quilt pattern.
Judy Chastain
My biggest challenge is choosing a motif. I just finished a scrappy quilt and did something different in each block. It was like practicing on a whole bunch of quilt sandwiches!
Laura
My biggest quilting challenge has always been and still remains deciding on a quilting design. Laurie your doodle quilting classes have helped immensely! I have also been doing some ruler classes. I haven’t decided yet whether I could tackle ruler work on a bigger quilt as I quilt on a domestic machine. Time and practice will tell.
Angela J Short
One of my biggest challenges so far is choosing the colors for my quilt. The heart motifs are super cute! angielovesgary2 atgmail dotcom
Janine Anderson-Bays
Accuracy in quilting within a block
Mom C
Lately my biggest challenge has been picking the colors for the quilt. I’ll pick a focus print and halfway through I’ll fall in love with another print which may or may not go with the first and may become the new color for the quilt. It’s driving me crazy!! Thanks.
Sheila Susen
My “current” biggest challenge is learning to quilt as you go. I’ve started a tee shirt quilt for my youngest son (age 48!) who has collected decades of rock concert tee shirts that he wants transformed into a king-sized quilt. No bigee right? But wait: he wants the fronts of the shirts aligned with their backs. I’ve squared off the shirts, pressed the fusible to them to prevent stretching, and even have them paired off in preparation. I have black fabric with musical notes scattered throughout to use as sashing/binding. This is a real challenge that I’m intimidated by.
cheri
already signed up for your new class, since i find that my main issue is planning out what to quilt on the quilt tops that i have accumulated.
Carla C
My biggest quilting challenge is cutting fabrics the correct measurements ad cutting it straight without making any mistakes.
Denise P
I would color selection, and then color arrangement is my biggest challenge.
Leslie Goldsberry
FMQ is challenging for me. I have difficulty with speed and tension. I think practice would help. ????
Carolyn S
My biggest challenge is what to quilt in the different areas, followed by tension and sometimes speed.
Lisa Marie
My challenge is knowing when to say “good enough”. I tend to be a bit OCD about matching points, choosing just the right fabrics, etc.
Betty Domal
I think my biggest challenge is just getting around to cutting out the pieces for the blocks,
Janice Scandrett
My biggest hurdle in machine quilting is figuring out what design pattern to use and can I do that design pattern. Your quilting tutorials have helped so much. On my last quilt I used a modified version of squiggly sun – it came out great. My next quilt will have trains and race cars, also from your tutorials. The more quilts I do, the easier the designing seems to be!
Deb Frazier
My biggest quilt challenge is finding time to actually piece and quilt the many projects I have purchased over the last few years.
Tonni
Making that first quilt is my greatest challenge. I read about quilting, think about it, buy the material…and then make pot holders…sigh.
Sharon Treece
My hardest part is planning the quilting design layout.
Lori Smanski
your block is very pretty. I think my biggest challenge most of the time is picking out the perfect fabrics. there are just way too many that go so nicely together. lol
Kim
Planning time to get started.
Susan
I seem to get these ideas in my head on how I want my Quilting to look like but it just doesn’t translate down to my hands. My stitches aren’t consistent and once in a while they get jerky.
geri kuster
Choosing fabric is such fun but also the most challenging for me. Usually buy way more than I need so I can change my mind as I go along.
Jan B
Making decisions about fabrics to use. That’s why I often either buy kits or use precuts!
April J.
Just finding time to quilt is my biggest challenge! Next would be having to pick from among all the lovely fabric color choices…decisions, decisions!
Stacey B Trichel
Set in seams!
Marlene
My challenge is seeing a quilt I like and picturing it in another color way.
Joanne Moore
My most recent big challenge was learning machine applique… I’ve been piecing for nearly 7 years but my expecting daughter in law wanted me to make a Mommy & Me quilt (with applique elephants). I did a lot of research on raw edge and turn edge applique and practiced with a handful of stitches on my new Bernina to get it right.
Linda Nelson
Finishing my quilts!
Bethni Lee
I have never done actual quilting. I always stitch in the ditch. I’m so afraid to mess up a project. I have practiced, but am too scared to actually DO it.
Louise King
My biggest challenge is quilting on my 5 foot frame. I don’t have room for a larger frame,but it does take a while to get a large quilt done on it.
Gwen McGinnis
My biggest quilting challenge is getting my stash quilted before I die! I have plenty to do, let me tell ya! My children want quilts and not quilt tops!
sandy haber
biggest challenge is just getting the courage to sit down and start! once the pattern is chosen and fabric picked out, then it takes me a while to actually cut the fabric. i just have to say, okay now do it! last quilt i made, took me almost 3 years to work up the courage to actually cut the fabric — but then it went so quickly and went together so easily, i couldn’t figure out why it took so long!
Susan Brewer
My biggest challenge seems to be committing to one project or staying with one project to “getter done!” With limited time I find myself jumping around to different projects and none finished. Gotta stick with it to the finish and not get distracted by more pretty colors and beautiful patterns!
Joyce Stratton
My challenge is doing the quilting. This year I have been trying QAYG on some of the larger quilts and I’m learning, slowly, to do free motion quilting. It’s always something I find myself putting off until the last minute as I’m not real good at it.
Sally
My biggest challenge is sandwiching the quilt… wish there were an easy way to do this. Everything else is fun!
Jeanie Allen
I love to make quilts and each step is a huge challenge – I have MS and am very limited as to what I can do well – but I won’t let this wheelchair stop me – I keep finding a new way to met each new roadblock
Aftermath Quilting
My challenge is deciding on quilting designs.
Wilma Kinder
The hardest part for me is planning the quilting.
Sharon
My biggest challenge is fabric colors and making sure every thing goes together nicely. Once that’s figured out, i’m good to go!!
Kellie Campbell
The most challenging part of quilting for me is choosing the right colors that go together better
Nancy Bowers
My biggest challenge so far was the first t-shirt quilt that I made for a niece. She thought I could just do anything when it came to quilting. I got it made and she loved it.
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