A Prairie Home Quilts

My Quilty Stuff

• A Prairie Home Quilts
  My “regular” website about quilting
• Color Glossary for Quilters
• My Portable Design Wall
  Instructions and pictures of how I created it.
• My Old Quilt Studio – “Before” and “After” (A WIP)
• My Old Temporary 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.
• 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)
• 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!

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.
• Suesse Sac
  Free pattern for a cute tote.
• Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler
  Sylvia Compson’s bridal quilt — Sylvia Compson is one of the Elm Creek Quilters in Jennifer Chiaverini’s novels.  This site used to have the patterns available for free.  I guess with Jennifer publishing the patterns into a book, they are no longer listed for free at the site; but I do love the quilt!

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 Renate 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

• Ann Harwell – Quilt Artist
• England Designs
• Melinda Bula
• Ruth B McDowell Quilts for Sale
• Mary Lou Weidman

Favorite Pattern Companies

• Bunny Hill Designs
• England Design Quilt Patterns
• Maggie Walker Designs
• Quilted Lizard Patterns
• Radical Roosters Patterns

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