Posts in this category will talk about quilting (free-motion quilting, hand quilting, and walking-foot).
Last month, one of my favorite fabric & quilt designers, Carolyn Friedlander, published a free pattern and announced a Ray Quilt along. I enjoyed looking at what she had made and while I was considering her choices, I started thinking about…
The Original Plan When last I wrote about this Log Cabin Quilt, I was planning a quilt of mostly solids with a cheerful 1950s palette (see that post here). Well, when I got to making I found that I needed to…
A plus quilt. Simple, attractive, and timeless. I recently whipped up this quilt for a loved one who was diagnosed with cancer. I wanted her to have something made with love to take with her to chemo (I hear it…
Last March, a neighbor brought a vintage quilt top to me, asking if I could turn it into a finished quilt. As you can see, the top was a Grandma's Flower Garden. Some investigation showed that it was all hand-pieced…
If you follow along with me on Instagram (i'm rossiecrafts), you'll notice that I love stacking up fabric combinations. This is just something that happens when I'm in my studio...fabrics find their way into pretty combinations, and I take out a…
I've said it before and I'll say it again: quilting is my growth area. I'm not horrible, but I'm not awesome. With a new machine in my studio, one that a lot of people buy specifically for its free-motion…
Remember this quilt top from last year? There's a tutorial for the patchwork in last year's post (link). I figured I should quilt it before Halloween came around this year! Thankfully, I had some deliciously halloween-y variegated thread from Aurifil…
Remember this quilt top and tutorial? It was inspired by a Garima Dhawan print and made with her permission. Last month I decided to quilt it up in order to submit it to AQS's Modern Challenge. I had originally planned on…
This quilt was glimpsed on this blog six weeks ago when I wrote about my productive weekend retreat with the Ann Arbor Modern Quilt Guild. Well, it's done now, so I thought I'd sit down and explain how it came to…
Quilting is probably my least favorite step in the process of making a quilt. It's also, probably because I send quilts out pretty often, my biggest problem growth area. I just haven't put in the time on quilting that…