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

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Click here to view some of my quilting projects

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

Basic sewing, cutting, and pressing for quilt blocks. This website has very good instructions for rotary cutting and block construction. Shows how to apply bindings and basic quilt care. http://quilt.com/HowToPage.html  (The World Wide Quilting Page)

The Beginner's Guide to Quilting  http://quilt.com/Beginner/BeginnersGuide.html (WWQP)
How to figure yardage http://quilt.com/HowTo/YardagePage.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/G_I/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  

I Wanna Quilt  Applique tips

Sew Go Create  (Quilting & Sewing Tips)

Y-seam construction. (Jan P. Krentz, Quilting Teacher & Designer) http://www.jankrentz.com/yseams_public.html

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

Hand Piecing  (Free tutorial on how to do hand piecing)