Quilting

My grandmother made some of the most beautiful quilts.  She had seventeen grandchildren and before she died, she pieced each one a quilt top.  The one she made me was a strawberry applique. 

Quilt Block Divider  by Lace Fairy

This page was checked for broken links on 9/22/08.
If you find problems with some of these links, please contact me so I can get the problem corrected

Click here to view some of my quilting projects

I hope these links help in teaching you how to quilt.

How to figure yardage http://www.quilterscache.com/StartQuiltingPages/startquiltingtwo.html

http://www.nmia.com/~mgdesign/qor/begin/begin.htm  Beginner's Corner. Instructions for beginning quilters on aligning quilt pieces, typing a quilt, and appliqué.

http://www.quilterscache.com/H/howtolinks.html  (Quilting How To's)

http://www.dotdigital.com/sewingcharity/howtos.html (More Quilting How To's)

http://www.quilterscache.com/StartQuiltingPages/startquiltingthree.html  Paper piecing.

http://www.winnowing.com/ppp.html   Christine Thresh's Paper Piecing Primer.

http://www.patchpieces.com/Paperpiece.html  Free Paper Foundation Patterns    

Fabric Calculator (enter block size, # of blocks, percentage of light, medium, dark fabrics and fabric calculator will calculator how much fabric you need to purchase. http://search.quiltshops.com/calculator/calculator.htm

Free tutorial o Quilting techniques Click on "Tutorials" to learn applique, hand piecing, and how to do ruching.