Baptist fan quilting tutorials

Before it’s all finished I wanted to share a few pictures of the latest star quilt being quilted……I’ve used a baptist fan pattern for each quilt although I’ve u…

Baptist Fan design

With a little help from my friends, I settled in on the Baptist Fan quilting design for my Garden Party quilt, I shared last week. I do mark the entire quilt top before I start quilting and ideally…

I thought I do a little post on how I go about quilting the Baptist Fan over a lap sized quilt (54 x 60in) using my new rulers from Michael Quilts. Hopefully someone will find this useful and take the plunge in terms of trying this out on one of their quilts. Here are the templates (except for the smallest one) Nice green fluorescent, so cannot be overlooked on your quilt. Nevertheless, I do set myself up with a chair on my right side where I park each template following its use. Having a…

Whoops, well I guess I missed yesterday. I had a last minute opportunity to go visit another guild for an all day quilt in and I jumped at ...

Learn to make baptist fans with this video tutorial! I'll walk you through how to make a baptist fan template for hand quilting. #handquilting #quilting

Main - Baptist fan quilting - When free motion quilting a Baptist fan on my domestic, do I tie off at the end of each row and begin again? I can't figure how to go from left to right. Any advice? Grammahunt

Today I'm going back and forth between baking for our Thanksgiving feast tomorrow, cleaning the house up a bit and machine quilting. I have a goal of finishing three of these quilts before Christmas!! One is finished, I just passed the halfway point quilting the second one and the third is ready to layer. To stay on track, I need to complete two rows of Baptist fans across a quilt each day! My office (where my APQS George is set up) is adjacent to my kitchen so it's easy to do a bit of this…

of fan quilting! As you all know, I designed and manufactured a large fan stencil because I couldn't find one on the market that was the large size I wanted. I made my own for this quilt. I was asked by my friend, Sheila, to do a tutorial on how to mark a quilt with this stencil. Let's pretend this cardboard is a wonderful quilt top. I line up the stencil with the bottom and right side. I mark the first section, then the second section. Here is how it should look. Then I move on to the third…

Today I'm going back and forth between baking for our Thanksgiving feast tomorrow, cleaning the house up a bit and machine quilting. I have a goal of finishing three of these quilts before Christmas!! One is finished, I just passed the halfway point quilting the second one and the third is ready to layer. To stay on track, I need to complete two rows of Baptist fans across a quilt each day! My office (where my APQS George is set up) is adjacent to my kitchen so it's easy to do a bit of this…