Determine your quilt size to fit the bed ~

It's a good thing when you have the quilt pattern and that's the size you desire.  But, what if alterations are needed to fit the quilt to the bed!  Here's how All People Quilt helps us out. 

Quick Reference Chart:  Standard Bed and Batting Sizes

It's a now you know moment.....enjoy it.





 

Angela Walters Free Motion Quiltalong continuing ~

Week 1 - Free motion quilting basic feathers: 

and the basic feather diagram ~

Week 2 - Free motion quilting custom feathers with Angela Walters on her u-tube channel:




 

and here is the Custom Feather Diagram ~   

Want even more free motion quilting.....it all started with this blog post.    Then click on older post tab to get all the free motion quilt-along videos. 

Ready.    Set.    Quilt-along with Angela Walters.










 

I Love This Quilt ~

Nuts and Bolts as seen in McCall's Quilting January//February 2010 issue was designed by Sandy Klop.  Measuring 50" and 66".   Here's  the Nuts and Bolts PDF download free for the taking.

Nuts and Bolts designed by Sandy Klop as seen in McCall's Quilting

But wait....there's more!  Associate Editor Gigi Khalsa has another version and took us through her process blogged about in two parts here.    Yes, the nuts and bolts of it is that most any style fabric, from 30's and 40's into the now, will work for these bullseye wedges. 










 

alisaburke: the art of failure

Spotlight Alisa Burke......with  dialog worthy of repeating to self as many times as it takes.   Enjoy and relish in The Art of Failure.   We all do it, fail, that is, but how does it affect our momentum.  Do we  "Just get over it!!!"  and quickly move on or do we dwell and simmer and digress? 

 

Spotlight on the Filmmaker Part 2

An introduction to Ken Burns and his quilt collection blog post.

Photo Credit Benjamin Norman for The New York Times

The Ken Burns quilt collection continues ~ View Uncovered:  The Ken Burns Collection at The International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.  

"We live in a rational world. One and one always equals two. That's okay, but we actually want—in our faith, in our families, in our friendships, in our love, in our art—for one and one to equal three.  And quilts do that for me."                                           Ken Burns



Uncovered:  The Ken Burns Collection
The International  Quilt Study Center and Museum

 

Just in time for Mother's Day ~

How Fun!  Need an idea for a quick gift?  One special, one hand-made.....

Found on We All Sew November, 2017 blog post:   A charming pocket apron tutorial by Minki Kim featuring her hand applique apron pocket and yarndyed Lecien gray cotton fabric.  The embroidery and applique pattern was found in Simply Stitched with Applique, a book by Yumiko Higuchi published by Zakka Workshop.