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
Wilma Kinder
Deciding a quilting motif
Perri Ann Kaufman
My biggest quilting challenge is finishing one project before I want to start on another one! So much beautiful fabric on the market……
MaryAnn B
my challenge is a tough quilt pattern and saying to myself that I can do anything I put my mind to.
Tamara Isaacs-Smith
The hardest part is finding the time to work on my quilts, when I find the time, it is choosing to quilt outside my comfort zone of free motion doodles!
Karen A
My biggest challenge is deciding what designs to stitch.
Christine
My biggest challenge is clearing my schedule to make TIME for my greatest love which is quilting…after family! But I let myself get distracted by other good causes which I never think will take tooooo much time. The best thing for me is a quilting deadline…but that has some negatives in ultimate creative process which sometimes needs a lot percolating.
Meo McIntyre
Quilting the quilt. I love the detailed quilting but can’t do it.
Ann Maddox
I keep finding so many patterns and new fabrics, it makes it hard to decide what to make next. It takes me a while to finish a project because I have neck problems, but I love sewing and creating!
Virgi
Deciding on a quilting motif then how/where to start!
amysue1103
Biggest challenge is completing projects instead of having several UFO’s. I’m working on challenging myself to do more on quilting then just stiple as well
jm
My biggest quilting challenge is time!
Gerri Coggins
My biggest challenge is finding the time to finish all the quilts I started.
Sue Parks
My biggest challenge is free motion quilting. I get so nervous I’ll mess it up! I have to learn to relax and practice lots. Your work is amazing and sew creative. Thank you for your inspiration.
Smiles, Sue
Debbie Boaz
I’m new to the quilting part of making quilts so all aspects are somewhat difficult for me. The hardest part is getting my rhythm correct so my stitches are the same length and the tension is right. I quilt on a home machine.
Becky Olson
I have a hard time choosing fabrics and threads and then also finding the time to quilt.
quilting538
My biggest problem is with deciding on what fabrics to use!
Karin
My biggest problem is finding time!
Donna Stellway
I think my biggest challenge is choosing the right fabrics for the pattern and the person I’m making a quilt for. It all has to fit the personality of who it’s going to.
Kaye Walker
My biggest challenge is choosing fabric. I will mull over that forever, picking and dismissing.
Rosanna Rhinehart
My biggest challenge is picking a quilting motif. I have started quilting since I retired and have completed two of Jacquelynne Steve’s designs. I hand quilted both. Maybe I will get brave enough to try free motion machine quilting on the next one.
Jessica Baker
My biggest quilting challenge is deciding how I want to quilt my quilt. I believe I tend to over think it. I always want to make it more complicated than it needs to be. I feel that if I just relaxed a bit the quilt design will come to me.
Denise Nash
I’m dealing with my biggest challenge right now! Today! I’m getting ready to quilt our Modern Quilt Guild entry for QuiltCon, and am staring at all that negative space, looking for a theme I can carry through. Whew! it’s stressful.
Debra
My biggest challenge is to make time to learn free motion quilting. I prefer to handquilt but using a machine is so much faster. One day… I look forward to reading more on your blog. 🙂
Sandy Worley
Free motion quilting is my biggest challenge in completing my projects. I will keep at the practice efforts, hoping one day to reach success. Your work is so beautiful & encourages my efforts. Thank you
Nancy
I chose to add photos to the quilt I am currently working on. It’s been the most challenging thing I’ve done on a quilt and will probably never do again!
Judy Strigel
My biggest problem is picking out the material that I think will look great in the pattern.
Chiska
The quilting is my biggest challenge. Figuring out what and how to quilt it is the toughest thing for me.
annthompson51
Choosing the fabrics.
Charlene
The actual quilting is the hardest for me. I have a limited sewing space so quilting a big top is challenging.
Esther G
Your work is beautiful! I have 2 big quilting challenges: basting (my house doesn’t have a large enough open floor space for anything lap-sized or larger) and I have a book with quilting motifs to use as stencils but I always have a horrible time re-sizing the motifs to fit on my quilt right.
Ola Norman
I have a hard time deciding what colors to use.
Frances Leslie
Biggest challenge is finding the right quilting pattern, by hand or machine. I have several books & patterns but it is still difficult.
Kandi Crawford
My biggest challenge is the actual quilting!
Ashley Warren
My biggest sewing/quilting challenge so far has been the puff / bubble quilt, unbelievably hard but it turned out beautiful.
Sandy May
My biggest challenge is finishing each project. Too many items in the pot, most of them 90% completed. What prevents me from tackling those final steps?
Carol B
My biggest challenge is how to quilt the top and feel I have the confidence to do it.
Debbie B.
I enjoy piecing the quilt together but my biggest challenge is everything that comes after that!
Elizajane
My biggest challenge is finishing something I’ve started, before being enthralled by something new,
Buffie lorah
My biggest challenge is myself! I am my own worst critic, I need to just go with it and create my art.
suegiachero
Finding time – uninterrupted time is my biggest challenge.
Marlene Tillery
Time to do all the quilts I want to do! And then free motion quilting just terrifieso me.
Eileen
My biggest challenge is putting aside the time to do my project and completing one before falling in love and starting with the next one!
Sandy Ross
My challenge is planning time to make all the things i can imagine!
Kathy Carr
My biggest quilting challenge is trying to decide which quilt to work on next. I have 5 projects I’m working on now. Two are for Christmas and two are BOM’s that I want to stay up to date.That’s not counting the three that need bindings.
Sue V.
My biggest challenge is getting the top, batting and backing pinned and ready to machine quilt
auntiepatch69
My biggest challenge is planning the quilting. The quilt top is no problem for me; it’s the quilting!
Jane E Henderson
My biggest challenge is getting the “sandwich” perfect for quilting. I’m getting better, but not perfect yet. I only machine quilt small quilts so far.
Marilyn Rose
Doing the quilting. Definitely.
MJ OBrien
That first free motion stitch is the biggest hurdle. After all the work put into planning, shopping, and piecing, I don’t want to mess it up with poor quilting.
Ivonne Walters
For sure the quilting. I draft several ideas before I decide on the one.
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