Baptist fan quilting design

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…

Someone asked about a tutorial for making the Baptist Fan Pattern for hand quilting. It seems pretty complicated until you break it down, then you might wonder why you haven't been stitching this pattern all along! For the formal (very structured and tidy) style of Baptist Fans, you start with a basic template. I use template plastic, but cardboard is good too--just make sure it's stiff enough to withstand repeated use. Cut your template plastic (or cardboard) in a long rectangle shape 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

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…

Plus Squared quilt by Emily Dennis of Quilty Love. I sent this to a longarm quilter and I LOVE this baptist fan she chose. This quilting design has always been a favorite of mine. The baptist fan quilt design is such a traditional quilting design. But this one has nice tight lines making it feel much more modern. #quilting #modernquilts #scrappyquilt

Baptist Fan design

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…

Suzy cracks open the Quilter’s Dictionary to investigate the case on the origins of the Baptist Fan. Or is that Methodist Fan?…or Presbyterian Fan?…

I had a couple emails asking to show how I did the Baptist Fans, so, I will attempt to show you... Now, If you all could just come over, I could really SHOW you. LOL! Free motion fans were new to me. I could easily do them with a walking foot, but found them so tedious, that I had decided to just go for it, with my free motion foot. Basically, I started in the lower right hand corner of my quilt. My quilt was pin basted, and I found that as I went along, taking out a few pins and hand…