I'm doing a little private swap with Jessie and I came up with this idea for her table topper. I used all the pretty new prints from Tula Pink's Birds & Bees line. It's pretty simple in construction, but I went all out for the quilting!
I've been wanting to expand my free motion quilting repertoire and I love this cathedral window look. I've seen a few similar styles, but I always found the method difficult--I couldn't see the corner I was aiming for while I was quilting. I'm going to be posting a video tutorial soon about how I did this. It was so incredibly easy (and forgiving!) I'm already excited to try it out on another quilt because, as we all know, practice makes perfect with FMQ!
UPDATE: Here is the video tutorial! It's also posted on my YouTube channel, kelbysews.
UPDATE: Here is the video tutorial! It's also posted on my YouTube channel, kelbysews.
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Charlotte Warr Anderson has a book on quilting this method with many other patterns that you can do this way. It is called ''One Line at a Time''
How funny, I just got the above book out of the library today!
Time for me to watch you in action, before I go to bed. (That sounds wrong, sorry.) x
Oooh, love how you quilted this. And I'm neither reading books nor watching you in action before bed ;o)
alright your tutorial has inspired me to try this, may need to be on something smaller to give it a whirl. So appreciate you posting this video, makes it so much easier to understand.
This is gorgeous!
Great tutorial. Finally something I can understand!!!!
Thanks so much for this! I love this quilting design and this seems much more do-able than other methods I've seen.
What a great look. Love the quilting. Thanks for the tute.
cute video Kelly!
I saw this on Flickr and just loved it. Sooo beautiful!
great tute! I tried to 'pin' it, but it said 'cannot pin this image' :( Is your picture storage set on private?
What a great tutorial! I've tried this type of quilting before, but found it really hard to get it looking good. This looks like I might just manage it. I've got a charity quilt to quilt and I think I might just give it a go. Thankyou!
What an unbelievably adorable quilt. It has inspired me ; I may use a similar pattern with charm squares I get from a christmas charm swap to make a tree skirt! - I could fussy cut all the cute christmas pictures like your windows and quilt it like this!! thanks for the inspiration :)
Thanks for sharing this video - was the shove I needed to give it a try! I love your quilts - I've been inspired to try (again) paper piecing, and I like seeing your (some) simple designs that really make a statement. I'm realizing that quilts don't have to take years to complete!
http://aajsaunders.blogspot.ca/2012/07/babys-first-quilt.html
Made using your paper piecing pattern.
I absolutely love this! The placement of color in the quilt looks fab, and that quilting is brilliant!
Thanks for the tutorial - love the quilt.
Now that quilting is amazing Kelly...so thanks for sharing your secrets with a tutorial. btw the scrap bag you sent me arrived this week and I was blown away by your generosity - stop by on Sunday 5th August to see my post about it if you'd like. thank you again.rsqoff 1
oh i love the quilting on this!its really lovely.. i bought angela's book too. I just received it today and am so excited to start like what you did with that quilt you just finished quilting...great job.
awesome video, thank you!!
Hee hee, it's cool to hear your voice! And it's funny, I would never have thought of doing FMQ horizontally/sideways/you know what I mean. Thanks! I'm definitely gonna try it next time.
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