Clam shell quilting designs

Hello, my lovelies! My one and only weekly goal last week was to START -- just to start, not to finish, mind you! -- piecing my Modern Baby Clam Shells quilt. I created the design in my EQ8 software in December of 2018, with a specific baby in mind whose due date was several weeks away... Then it took me awhile to find the 9.5" acrylic clam shell templates I wanted to use (from an Australian Etsy seller who has since closed her shop). Then I hemmed and hawed about the best way to cut out…

Clamshell Quilting on a sitdown longarm machine using the Handiquilter Multi Clamshell ruler

Clamshell quilting adds an interesting all-over design to a quilt. Learn how to quilt clamshells the easy way with this tutorial!

I hand stitched my first clamshell last night and learned later than it isn't necessary to stitch down anything but the circle part because the rest is hidden below the next clamshell......duh....... Onward...... .....while browsing the internet for clamshell ideas I came across this interesting "short-cut" by Susan Stiff of Moda which uses a machine seam......... So I decided to try to see if I might like this method...I tried several different ways of stitching and I think the most…

3 new skill building books by Deborah Louie I am extremely excited to share with you my latest new books. Quilting between the lines This is the first new skill building book I would like to introduce. This 52 page full colour glossy book comes with 3 mesh stencils as a package. I have designed the grids to work beautifully with well over 30 free motion quilting designs. The thought sometimes of quilting a large area is rather daunting, but with the grids after using a pre purchase quilt…

If you love blue, we’ve got just the quilt for you. 💙 This clam shell quilt was quilted by Kelly B. with her #APQS Millie. The alternating quilting patterns on each shell are the perfect touch.

Find #TheQuiltedClamshell on Instagram! Grab some quilting ideas from #TheQuiltedClamshell hashtag on instagram. See what I’ve posted and brainstorm your own designs. Want to join in the fun? This one

It all started in April 2016, when I went with two friends to the AQS show in Paducah, Kentucky. We had a great get-away, starting with a visit to the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, Colorado, then the show in Paducah, and finishing off with a show at the Grand Ol’ Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. It also happened to be my birthday week! But, what I am actually writing about is a quilt that my friend Jackie and I have been working on together. In the vendor mall at the AQS show, I saw a…

This is a commissioned quilt that I was really excited to make. Since stepping out of my comfort zone in sewing curves from the Flowering Snowball Along Quilt, I have wanted to step it up with the confidence I had gained from the sew-along to make a clam shell quilt. I fell in love with the clam shell quilt when the 'Glam Clam Quilt' by Latifah Saafir burst into the quilting scene a couple of years back (I think it was a couple of years back). I was dying to make one however, I was not ready…

This is how it started two years ago. Yes, two years ago I saw this in a quilting book and I had to make this quilt. I first hand sewed the clams edges. This was great for long trips. After sewing all the edges, I then started hand sewing them together. After all the clams were stitched together, I sandwiched the top, batting and the back. And stitched the quilt together. I sewed each clam shell. I thought I was making a lap quilt, little did I know it turned in to a bed quilt. I love the…