Purple quilts ideas color combos

The fabric and pattern for this quilt was purchased a few years ago, when eldest daughter loved everything purple. The pattern is Crossroads, by Allison Spence of Needleworks, and I bought all the batik fabrics from her then store as well. Allison now quilts and blogs at Meadow Rose Quilting. The really neat thing about this pattern is its about value placement, and depending on how the values are arranged, I see different things. For the quilt above, I see the purple stars first, and then…

In my quest of trying to use up my stash, I am making progress! I cut up 14 purple fat quarters for this one. I got the borders put on it today, now it’s ready to quilt. This is the second qu…

Ombre Batik Quilt Kit

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Busy Hands Quilts quilt patterns for modern and traditional quilters in all sizes, precuts, fat quarters FQs, layer cakes, jelly rolls, & charm packs.

Isn't this a gorgeous collection of purple fabrics in Pamela's quilt? Read more about the choices we made about how it should be quilted.

This is Yvonne's Pansy quilt. She and Ethel had bought their kits at the same time, both loving the quilt. Yvonne is a hand quilter, and had this quilt all layered and pinned. And then decided she wanted to enjoy it now, not a few years from now, and brought it to me. She decided on a meander quilting, which added lovely texture to the quilt. The fabrics are quite busy, so it was a good choice. I really love how these tri-recs (or spike and peakey) stars create these white pointy shapes (my…

Rebecca Grace Shares her Creative Process for Sewing and Quilting, Combining Traditional Hand Stitching Techniques with Computer Technology