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

Ahh, the Baptist fan. Is there anything more classic? Several months ago I did this design for the first time on my improv throw pillows, and I loved the look and texture it provided! So when I decided to quilt one of my Misty Mountains versions with this design, I knew I had to snap some pictures along the way so you could try it too! Supplies: Some of the links in this post are affiliateContinue reading

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…

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…