Handkerchief quilts

How to make a baby quilt made from vintage handkerchiefs, fun vintage hankie ideas and quilt patterns. Things to do with vintage hankies.

So you want to make a handkerchief quilt? There are so many different ways to use all those beautiful vintage hankies you’ve been collecting. I’m in the process of finishing my qui…

It has been a productive and eclectic year for me as a quilt designer and maker. While cutting down my teaching engagements has been a litt...

I would love to make a gorgeous quilt like this someday...

“Before Kleenex” the note said. It was in my Mother-in-Law’s handwriting and placed inside a bag of hankies. We were cleaning out her trunk, which included the hankies along with …

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About 4 years ago Mom asked me to help her make the butterflies out of old hankies , so I pinned the shapes and then used a blanket stitch around 12 of them ,I had told her I would wait for her to emborider the heads and antlers and then go back and do more ,She waited almost 4 years for me to get back to it we would forget about it each time I went to visit , finally the last time I went I finished the rest, then we added the sashing and squares to it then, the wide boarder. Mom will get a…

Let’s start 2021 with a free quilt class! I’ve designed an original quilt pattern, made the quilt top and taken lots of pictures in the hopes of creating a class to brighten your 2021. Titled “Boeh…

3 Tips for sewing with vintage linens including vintage sheets, pillowcase and hankies. Lots of fun ideas for things to make with old linens.

This is my first tutorial and my first multi-size handkerchief rag quilt. I usually collect hankies until I have enough of the same size and simply put them together in the normal way for a rag quilt but I had so many hankies of various sizes that I was not using because I didn't have enough of a particular size. I wanted to figure out a good way to make the quilt using all the different sizes. I thought I could put a small size next to a big size and it would all work out in the end but the…