Quilts with lettering

Far and away the question I get most from readers is asking me about using letters to applique. About a year ago I started sharing my #birthdaypillowcase creations on my Instagram page and every post has people wondering how I do it. I’m sure Silhouettes and Cricuts would make this task easier, but I’m an old fashioned gal, and I don’t have one of those fancy machines. I’m sure I’m not alone, so if you’re…

Ellen challenged us with this reveal. The word was "Letters." There were no other parameters were given.... Here are the wonderful Art Quilts produced in Reveal order.... We always draw numbers for the order of reveal. First up was: Marie Ellen Susie Trish Annick Lisa René Simone Patty Lois Thanks Patty for hosting this lovely evening. Patty issued the next challenge: 'Water' Again, there are no other restrictions! Reveal is Tuesday, May 26th - 7PM @ Trish's. Can't wait to see everyone's…

Learn to use the One Patch Quilt in Electric Quilt 8 as graph paper to design an entire alphabet. And then the process to transfer your design to individual blocks for each letter.

is finished! I have belonged to this wonderful Spelling Bee for most of this year, ably organised by Elizabeth. The signature blocks She writes more about it here! I started with my go-to straight line quilting, then really branched out to FMQ lots of flowers and other fancy variations! I know I am never going to win any prizes for my quilting... but I sure had a great time doing it! I also did a line of quilting in the words, trying to mimic my handwriting! Trust me, it's not that bad in…

I hope that you’ve been enjoying Alphabet Soup! I've got an alternate version to the Alphabet Soup Block "I" that I made available as a free bonus block for the book. I'm working on some Alphabet Soup projects of my own this summer. While I was planning them out I found that I wasn't loving the letter "I" as I had designed it for the book. When I saw the "I" on pillows or letter tiles I wanted it to have the baseline and the cap height serif. You can see the new "I" here in the first row…

here are a couple more quilts that caught my eye at the International Quilt Fair in Birmingham... this was a lovely colourful quilt with applique and embroidered shapes & words all to do with eco living. I also liked this...

Let your hand embroidery speak for you! Learn how to stitch letters in four decorative ways.

I'm so excited to share my latest book with you! I'm pleased to introduce Alphabet Soup!! Here is the back cover of the book! If you're wondering what the text at the top of the back cover says, it r

I've started a new project that will take me well into the new year. It's using mostly my hubby's old shirts, along with a few stas...

Do you all remember Lajla? She's a wonderful Norwegian-Australian quilter who's made two previous UnRuly Word quilts which I shared in this post. Well she has made another pair of awesome quilts. She describes them as "use what you've got quilts." She only bought fabric for the backing - the rest all came out of stash. Both are machine quilted or else, she explains, they'd never be finished. Boy do I understand how that works... First off is her four letter Word quilt - another take on using…