Hand embroidered quilt blocks

Over one-third of quilters own an embroidery machine, and about one-third also do embroidery on quilt tops. That leads to a big question - How do you quilt them?

A Day in Happyland by Anni Downs and Hatched and Patched. I would love to stitch along with you on our Monday Night Facebook Live.

How to Hand Embroider A Quilt to give more texture and more color, quilts are always beautiful, but hand embroidery stitches will make them to look even better!

Welcome to the weekly hand stitching link up! We celebrate all types of hand work and enjoy seeing what is being created by hands all around the world... slow and steady, one small stitch at a time! Did you know that yesterday (February 8th) was Hari-Kuyo? This is a 400+ year old Japanese ritual called "Festival of Broken Needles". What is that you ask?!? Hari-Kuyo is the Buddhist and Shinto Festival of Broken Needles which is celebrated in parts of Japan on February 8th. For the past 400…

Shelly of The Life of Hazel Ilene is sharing an embroidery quilt-along one block at a time. She says, For these blocks, there’s a plain version, and a fancy version. Which you do just depends on ho…

Grandma's embroidered blocks quilt is completely finished! I love the texture the circle quilting adds. A view of the back. This is a view of the circles I free handed in the center of the lilac block. Actually that's not too bad! Of course I added a label. After the photo shoot, I washed the quilt then partially dried in the dryer. I took it out before it was completely dry then spread it on a sheet upstairs to finish drying. It has the lovely texture of an antique quilt. Before quilting…

I started this whole-cloth quilt with a beautiful blank slate! I wanted to experiment with what would happen if hand-stitching created the design instead of fabric. Blogged at Six White Horses.

The photo above © Vanessa Goertzen If you love quilting hearts, you will enjoy making this beautiful heart quilt block. It is a simple and fun project that uses basic techniques like half-square triangles and flying geese. You can choose between two sizes: 9" or 4.5" finished. The smaller size is more challenging because the pieces are very small and need to be sewn accurately. You can find the free pattern and tutorial on the Lella Boutique blog. Full Post: Heart Quilt Block

When I'm drawing out a new fabric line I usually have a rough idea of the quilts I want to make with it, but I KNEW I wanted to make a big flower quilt. After tinkering with designs for a month I went back to basics and landed on a giant Daisy block. The main...Read More

Hello! It’s Stephanie from Sissy Belle Sews here with a special kind of post! In the past, I have posted start-to-finish projects and patterns for you. But today I wanted to share a special project I just finished and tell you how I used my favorite ThermOWeb products to do it! As a quilter, I […] Read more...