Strip piecing quilts

Strip piecing quilts can save time and money. Top US blogger Amy Smart shares tips to accurately cut and piece fabric for fast quilt blocks.

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Strip piecing quilts can save time and money. Top US blogger Amy Smart shares tips to accurately cut and piece fabric for fast quilt blocks.

With a ton of things to do before the end of the year I got distracted yet again! I saw the "Quilt as you go Hexagon" tutorial from Missouri Star Quilt Co. (here) and realized that this was my kind of hexie! Paper piecing and little hexies scare me - but this bigger, faster and easy version seemed like a whole lot of fun. You don't have to buy a template; there are lots of tutorials and videos that show you the same technique using cardboard and different sized units. I did get the one sold…

If you are anything like us then you will have a large number of scraps in your stash and it can sometimes be challenging to come up with ideas to use them. Making string quilts is an ideal way of using up those scraps, and these quilts not only look awesome they are easy to make and they will make a dent in that stash. We sew the strips directly onto our batting which gives the quilt a nice firm foundation. The one in this tutorial was finished by ditch stitching in the seam lines, but you…

Is it really April 1 tomorrow? That seems impossible, but it's true. April means lots of good things. Tomorrow, my grandmother turns 89, and later in the month, we celebrate my brother-in-law's birthday. And a wedding anniversary. And the second annual Stash Bash. It's also my month to plan the Love circle quilt for do.Good Stitches! It's been awhile since I've made string blocks. I don't know about you, but I always seem to have a pile of string scraps lying around. Last week, I divided…

Ashley Hough demonstrates a fun and useful new quilting technique for creating half square triangles known as tube quilting.