Alphabet quilts

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.

Finished this quilt for the local quilt shop where I work. I always volunteer to make the quilts from Sandy Klop‘s American Jane collections for the shop. 🙂 This one is from the Punctuation collection. I think I’ve lost count of how many American Jane quilts I’ve made. You can see some of those other quilts here, here, here, here, and here. Yep, I’m a groupie. This one was inspired by Sandy Klop’s own quilt design. We changed it slightly to use the fabric that we still had available so that…

My shop recently received some cute kid prints. Included with the line is the adorable panel. The panel is 36" by width of fabric. So I took a panel home along with a backing fabric and binding. This was one of the easiest and fastest kid quilts I've ever made. I quilted it simply by outlining the blocks and going around the "tape measure" border. It took me a little over an hour to baste and quilt it! Seriously, I brought it home Saturday afternoon after the shop closed at 3 pm. I had the…

This is the panel that drew me away from paper crafting and back into my sewing space. For a long time I’ve wanted to make an alphabet quilt. But I didn’t want to make the letters and I wanted them to look artsy. When I bought this panel, I didn’t know it was a Marcia Derse design. No wonder I love this panel. (Not to worry, all those prewash wrinkles will disappear as I work with the panel) I didn’t need to worry about wonky with this panel. The alphabet is intentionally somewhat wonky so…

When was the last time I blogged about quilting? Last night was the 7-Sisters Guild Christmas Party. Like usual we had a lot of fun and a lot of food. We usually play the gift game "now you have it, now you don't." The idea is to gift something you have that you no longer want or like. But, there is always one or two in the crowd who has to go out and buy something new. There wasn't much stealing in the game last night. Now that I am done decorating maybe I can get some quilting done next…

A fabulous, fun quilt, cushion and soft toys to appliqué and embroider by Heather Scott. Stitch this cute and colourful children's quilt with a combination of patchwork, appliqué, embroidery and quilting - perfect for a bed or wall, plus a matching cushion, two adorable felt animals and a gorgeous rag doll.

I recently had the MOST FUN making a mini quilt with words on it, so I just had to share it, along with a list of great pattern and book options for sewing your own alphabet letter quilt blocks.

I've finished up the top for my String Quilt. This is supposed to be a stash-buster quilt. Yes, all of the fabrics are from my stash - but who am I kidding? This stash is not going to be busted in my lifetime! I love multi-fabric quilts and this is surely one! But I really do have to have the coordinated look of a planned scrap quilt. The color theme was grays and reds with just a touch of gray-blue. I tried to keep it soft by using reds with a lot of pink in them. There's only one fabric…