Here is a wedding gift to Chris & Tim B made by Patty B. It is called Cathedral Window. It took tons of time. Each one is sewed to reveal the pattern. Here is a step by step tutorial to creating this exquisite Cathedral Window design. Online Quilt Show [table id=3 /]
This is Jacey’s baby quilt made by her grandmother. The alphabet is quilted into the yellow sides, with her name Jacey along the top and hearts along the bottom yellow. There are quilted hearts along the white border, Plus all the other white border and in the squares. All hand quilted!! Just Gorgeous! Online Quilt…
When I was pregnant with my daughter I wanted to make her a quilt out of pastel fabric. I was on a pretty tight budget but I knew it needed to be special. I went to my Grandma’s house and dug through her stash of fabric pieces and found some really pretty pieces of peach,…
A proper patchwork quilt can take months if not years to complete depending on how detailed you want it to be and how much detail is going into the appliqué. It’s not just the time though, whenever you’re using fabrics it can get expensive especially if you’re purchasing from fabric shops. Below are my top…
My Grandmother is 91 and has quilted and croched many afghans and quilts. Several years ago she started to teach me. I love listening to her tell stories about her many creations – the inspiration for the colors, where she got the fabric, and how she decided on the pattern. I was afraid all this…
When you hear the word knitting you probably have an image of your grandmother knitting a Christmas sweater, but recent celebrity interest has brought knitting back into the world of popular hobbies for people of all ages. Hobbies are there as pleasant distractions – ways in which you switch off and forget the stress of…
I know there are probably products you can buy to use as your template when you start cutting your fabric to make a quilt, but I don’t own those products…..and I’m not interested in spending money to buy something today. So I grabbed a piece of plastic canvas out of my closet and cut it…