Links
My Quilty Stuff
- A Prairie Home Quilts Machine Quilting Services
- A Prairie Home Sundries
- Color Glossary for Quilters
- My Portable Design Wall
Instructions and pictures of how I created it. - My Quilt Studio - “Before” and “After” (A WIP)
- My Temporary Design Wall
- My Permanent Design Wall
- Quilting Glossary
- Quilting Quotes
- Sewing & Quilting Room Photos on the Web
Great Ideas
- Accessory Tray
Picture of an homemade accessory tray that hooks over a large quilting frame. - Building a Design Wall
Instructions for building a design wall from builder’s foam. (Picture of one here.) - Design Wall Ideas
Annie’s Attic newsletter with reader’s design wall ideas. - Hints for creating a wall for designing quilts
- Temporary Design Wall Idea
I *loved* the idea of using space over the closet doors to hang a drapery rod to create a temporary design wall. I’m using this idea for my temporary design wall. (Another view) - Quilt Hang Ups used to cover closet storage
- CD Cabinets used for FQ storage
Picture - Leaders & Enders Quilts
Instructions for using leaders & enders to make scrappy quilts in no time at all! - Using Press and Seal as a Machine Quilting Stencil
Another example here. - 4-Sided, Multi-Functional Storage Tower
One side has pegboard, second side has open shelving, third side has shoe organizer (to hold rolls of stuff), and fourth corkboard. Pictures here, here, and here. - Side Pressing Station
Using a folding TV tray as a small pressing station next to machine. Neat idea! - Fusing Instructions Using Liquifuse (Now called “Liquid Thread”)
Definitely on my list of things to try!
Free Patterns and More Tutorials
- Angelina Fibers Tutorial
- Beginning a Landscape Quilt
- Border Ideas
With instructions from Marcia Hohn @ Quilter’s Cache - Fabric Dyeing 101
- Hand Dyeing Fabric
Cold water immersion dyeing instructions. - Quiltville.com
Bonnie has a nice collection of free patterns for scraps in .pdf format listed on her website. - QuiltersCache.com
Marcia’s website lists hundreds of block patterns with instructions. Many are traditonal blocks, some are originals, - Shoulder Bag Tutorial
Free pattern for a cute shoulder bag. - SüBe Sac
Free pattern for a cute tote. - Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler
- Free patterns for the 140 blocks that make up Sylvia Compson’s bridal quilt. (Sylvia Compson is one of the Elm Creek Quilters in Jennifer Chiaverini’s novels.)
Favorite Quilts
- Dear Jane
Picture of the Jane A. Sickle [1863] quilt. - Dear Jane Website
- Gradmother’s Flower Garden
Picture of a finished Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt that I love on the QuiltersCache.com website. I’m handpiecing mine, though. (Trying not to sound *snobbish* LOL) Here’s a picture of another one I like from QuiltersCache.com - Moo
By Ruth B. McDowell. What can I say? I love cows and barns. - Nearly Insane
Picture of the quilt created by Salinda Rupp in the 1870’s. I like it with the white background shown here. - Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler
Yes, another quilt top with small blocks. . . This one is by Jennifer Chiaverini, author of the Elm Creek Quilts series. - Oklahoma Backroads by Bonnie of Quiltville.com
- Piece & Quiet
By Cynthia England. This quilt is simply stunning… It doesn’t even look like a quilt in the picture! - Seven Sisters Quilt
Picture of a quilt that was machine quilted by Bonnie of Quiltville.com - Christmas Pineapple Blossom Quilt
Quilt by Renaté in Germany using Bonnie Hunter @ Quiltville.com’s free pattern, Pineapple Blossom - Women of the Bible Quilt
- Reminds me of a Dear Jane or Nearly Insane with modern colors. Carol used hand dyed fabrics for her quilt.
Favorite Quilters Websites
Favorite Pattern Companies
Favorite Websites for Quilters
- Big Horn Quilts
Fabric and notions at great prices and great service. - Dear Jane Website
- Nearly Insane Website
- Quilter’s Cache
Home to Marcia Hohn’s Quilt Blocks Galore - Free Quilt Block Patterns - Quilter’s Ultimate Dictionary Online
- The Quilt Show
- Quilting the Psalms email study group
- Women of the Bible Quilt email study group
