Make progress to please our creative selves is fun…and sometimes, hard work. Ripping, rethinking, redoing, repeat. So much goes into making a quilt – color choices, fabrics, values and layouts – If you can’t please YOU, who can you please?! It’s all progress and progress is good, even if it feels like we’re going backwards!
Making Progress as We Please on BOM Quilts
Make an Amazing Jelly Roll Quilt: A Complete Tutorial
Make an amazing jelly roll quilt with my newest design, Pathways. Sewing this pattern is a happy medium between piecing blocks and color improv. Make it as shown or experiment with your own layout – either way you’ll love it! Here’s how the tutorial goes: Key Highlights Lining up the stripes can be a bit tricky. It’s totally doable and…
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Freezer Paper Piecing {Tutorial}
Freezer paper piecing will save you so much time and *tears*. No more ripping out those tiny paper bits for hours! Oh, my achy, breaky fingers! In this post, I’m sharing a free modern triangle block pattern, Scrappy Whirligig, and a tutorial to make it with the freezer paper piecing technique that I’ve taught to thousands of quilters in my…
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How to Use Fabric Cutting Templates for Foundation Piecing
Fabric cutting templates are made for getting the best results with foundation paper piecing. Cutting the right shapes on the correct side of the fabric and cover the ENTIRE foundation makes sewing a lot more fun! Also, I’m answering your burning questions about how to place your template on the fabric (face up, face down?) and how many layers to…
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Make Modern Triangles Member Spotlight #30
THIS WEEK’S FEATURED MEMBER: Charlotte C. Make Modern Triangles member spotlight #30 is on Charlotte C. who brings her colorful, intricate quilts to the Bryan House Quilts blog. Her quilting ID is traditional and modern and she loves to learn. Charlotte started quilting to make baby quilts for her staff instead of knitting and crocheting them. She says that “now the possibilities…
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