Machine Quilting and more
Good Morning, Quilters! The links for the Spring, 2017 machine quilting QAL (Quilt a long) are fixed and you can find them all in this post! Hooray! As you know, we recently moved seven years worth of blog posts from The Inbox Jaunt to our shiny new site, Lori Kennedy Quilts. Unfortunately, moving a…
Machine Quilting and more
Good Morning, Quilters! My sampler is complete! Is YOURS? I hope you will make this little quilt. It was designed to help you walk through all the steps you would go through if you were making a full size quilt–piecing, layering, stabilizing, design, and quilt. We also learned how to stitch four different half square…
All and more
Good Morning, Quilters! Today we are adding the last border motif to our quilt–the Tulip Border! The tutorial for the Tulip Border can be found HERE. Or on page 104 of Free Motion Machine Quilting 1-2-3 available on Etsy HERE Add Tulip Time to the two edge borders of your quilt. If you were…
Design and more
Good Morning, Quilters! We are continuing our Spring Quilt-a-Long with our fourth way to quilt Half Square Triangles. Half Square Triangles (HSTs) are one of the most frequently used quilt blocks. By following along with this quilt-a-long, you will have four choices for quilting YOUR HSTs! Last week we stitched HST Flowers–(And I’m happy to…
Design and more
Good Morning, Quilters! I am back from Spring Market in St. Louis — energized and exhausted all at once! I have lots of news to share–but we will reserve it for later this week because we have work to do! We are free motion quilting our Spring Quilt-a-Long. This quilt-a-long was designed as a half-square…
Machine Quilting Basics and more
Good Morning, Quilters! Titanium Needles–The jury is still out! Thank you to all who participated in yesterday’s conversation about Titanium Needles… The water is a little murky for me now–Is there a difference between Titanium Needles and Titanium-coated needles? Does one break and the other bend? Do technicians see more damage? Maybe it’s better if a needle…
Quilt and more
Good Morning, Quilters! By the end of today we will have a pieced quilt top and a quilt sandwich, ready for (my favorite part) quilting! Yesterday, we completed the HST triangles and stitched all the rows together. Today: Borders and Layering the Quilt Sandwich BORDERS The Spring Sampler has top and bottom borders only–of course,…
Design and more
Good Morning, Quilters! SPRING QUILT-A-LONG We need 40 (or more) Half Square Triangles (HST) for our Spring Quilt-a-Long. While there are many ways to create HST, I am sharing a few of my favorite ways and would love to hear yours! Yesterday, we looked at how to make HST when using small scraps. (Step-by-step photo tutorial…
