Hankie quilts ideas

It has been a productive and eclectic year for me as a quilt designer and maker. While cutting down my teaching engagements has been a litt...

How to make a baby quilt made from vintage handkerchiefs, fun vintage hankie ideas and quilt patterns. Things to do with vintage hankies.

So you want to make a handkerchief quilt? There are so many different ways to use all those beautiful vintage hankies you’ve been collecting. I’m in the process of finishing my qui…

“Before Kleenex” the note said. It was in my Mother-in-Law’s handwriting and placed inside a bag of hankies. We were cleaning out her trunk, which included the hankies along with …

Let us take a few minutes to clear up some confusion…I cannot tell you how much fabric to buy because I do not know where you will use it, how much of it you will use or how often you will use a pa…

About 4 years ago Mom asked me to help her make the butterflies out of old hankies , so I pinned the shapes and then used a blanket stitch around 12 of them ,I had told her I would wait for her to emborider the heads and antlers and then go back and do more ,She waited almost 4 years for me to get back to it we would forget about it each time I went to visit , finally the last time I went I finished the rest, then we added the sashing and squares to it then, the wide boarder. Mom will get a…

Not too long ago, everyone had a handy-dandy vintage handkerchief, but those old-time hankies don’t need to be antiques off a shelf, there are plenty of ways

Faced with the dilemma of needing my Vintage Linens Quilt #1 (VLQ#1) for a presentation to the Alamo Heritage Quilt Guild earlier this month and knowing it wouldn’t be back in my possession until t…

A lovely customer of mine recently asked me to machine quilt her Vintage Handkerchief Quilt. This was a custom longarm job, and I love how it turned out! Jeanette first backed the hankies with whi…