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Texas Wildflower Class Starts Today from Melinda's Cutting Garden

Class starts today. I decide to just post the whole 2 1/2 hour class here and not break it up into 2 parts. You can watch this over and over if you need to review a technique. It's been a busy Thanksgiving weekend here which I'm sure you can understand. I hope everyone had a very blessed Thanksgiving. The video is at the bottom of this post.

If you need any supply to make this quilt. I have most of them on my Etsy shop.just click the button on the bar above. My shops has Steam-A-Seam ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 3 years, 5 months ago. under flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula , renegade thread play , steam-a-seam 2 , sulky thread

Refresher Course's- How to work with and deal with Steam-A-Seam 2 from Melinda's Cutting Garden

Video's at at the bottom. So you will read the post!

Let’s get educated. Iv spent the last month working on making some “how to "or Tips and Tricks videos on how I do my technique for making my Art. Or as some of you may call it Quilt Art or Art Quilting! Call whatever you want but I’m creating and making stuff so I call it, Art and I use my sewing machine so that quilting so we have Quilt Art!

I get asked a lot of question about how I do what I do, why ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 3 years, 7 months ago. under flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula , steam-a-seam2 , sulky thread

Is It Orange or Is It Yellow? from Melinda's Cutting Garden

Video is at the bottom of this post.

I am not sure if this is an orange or yellow dahlia. But oh, I love them so much. There are some beautiful dahlias on show at certain times of the year at the Fort Bragg Botanical Gardens. I was in heaven. This is one of the pictures I took and started when I got home. Could not wait to make it into an art quilt. I did a video of the process of making this flower. I am also showing you the steps I take to make my art quilts. I ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 3 years, 8 months ago. under flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , melinda bula

Belvedere's Bel Air from Quilt Doodle Doodles...

It's certainly not too early to think about the holidays. I've had this new design drawn up and ready to try in my studio for a year now. It's not that I didn't want to make it, it's just other things had to come first and this sweet design featuring Belvedere kept getting pushed to the back burner. It wasn't until I got some extra help from my sis that I finally have some design, sewing time. My days fly by so quickly that it's been really nice having the extra help stuffing ...

added by Quilt Doodle Designs 3 years, 8 months ago. under applique , christmas , fusible applique , holidays

Belvedere's Bel Air from Quilt Doodle Doodles

It's certainly not too early to think about the holidays. I've had this new design drawn up and ready to try in my studio for a year now. It's not that I didn't want to make it, it's just other things had to come first and this sweet design featuring Belvedere kept getting pushed to the back burner. It wasn't until I got some extra help from my sis that I finally have some design, sewing time. My days fly by so quickly that it's been really nice having the extra help stuffing ...

added by Quilt Doodle Designs 3 years, 8 months ago. under applique , christmas , fusible applique , holidays

Baby Bear Trio! from Quilt Doodle Doodles

I know, I know..... more bears. This is the last of my bear designs. I just needed to make a design with three baby bears playing in the woods. They could be playing peek a boo, or hiding from their mama. Last year when I saw this trio, they were crossing the road hubby and I were taking to go home from a vacation at the lake in Northern Minnesota. We saw mama bear cross the road first and then her babies, one by one. I was so excited I couldn't hold onto my phone right to take a ...

added by Quilt Doodle Designs 3 years, 8 months ago. under applique , bear , fusible applique , woodland getaway

Baby Bear Trio! from Quilt Doodle Doodles...

I know, I know..... more bears. This is the last of my bear designs. I just needed to make a design with three baby bears playing in the woods. They could be playing peek a boo, or hiding from their mama. Last year when I saw this trio, they were crossing the road hubby and I were taking to go home from a vacation at the lake in Northern Minnesota. We saw mama bear cross the road first and then her babies, one by one. I was so excited I couldn't hold onto my phone right to take a ...

added by Quilt Doodle Designs 3 years, 8 months ago. under applique , bear , fusible applique , woodland getaway

Papa Bear from Quilt Doodle Doodles

Many of you know that I am in love with bears. I saw another bear just recently when hubby and I were on a trip up north in July. We were driving home on a rural road after visiting a shop that sold wild rice. I always try to pick up a pound or two when ever we are in Northern Minnesota. The bear was quite some distance away, but still a thrill to see! He had disappeared back into the woods by the time we were close enough to see him. While doodling the other day, I came up ...

added by Quilt Doodle Designs 3 years, 8 months ago. under applique , fusible applique , tea towels , woodland getaway

Papa Bear from Quilt Doodle Doodles...

Many of you know that I am in love with bears. I saw another bear just recently when hubby and I were on a trip up north in July. We were driving home on a rural road after visiting a shop that sold wild rice. I always try to pick up a pound or two when ever we are in Northern Minnesota. The bear was quite some distance away, but still a thrill to see! He had disappeared back into the woods by the time we were close enough to see him. While doodling the other day, I came up ...

added by Quilt Doodle Designs 3 years, 8 months ago. under applique , fusible applique , tea towels , woodland getaway

Goldfinch from Quilt Doodle Doodles

We celebrated my nieces graduation a couple weekends ago. The tables were decorated with vases of wildflowers freshly picked that morning. It was such a beautiful detail and I was smitten with the yellow flowers which my sis told me were gray headed coneflowers.

These lovely flowers were the inspiration for my new Goldfinch design. I dug thru my fabric and found the perfect shades of fabric to complete my design and I bet you have fabric that will work for this sweet appliqué design too!

I spent a morning doodling and came up with an adorable design featuring a ...

added by Quilt Doodle Designs 3 years, 9 months ago. under applique , bird , fusible applique

Goldfinch from Quilt Doodle Doodles...

We celebrated my nieces graduation a couple weekends ago. The tables were decorated with vases of wildflowers freshly picked that morning. It was such a beautiful detail and I was smitten with the yellow flowers which my sis told me were gray headed coneflowers.

These lovely flowers were the inspiration for my new Goldfinch design. I dug thru my fabric and found the perfect shades of fabric to complete my design and I bet you have fabric that will work for this sweet appliqué design too!

I spent a morning doodling and came up with an adorable design featuring a ...

added by Quilt Doodle Designs 3 years, 9 months ago. under applique , bird , fusible applique

Harvest Basket: Our Wool Appliqué Methods from Telling Stories Through the Needle's Eye

It's finally time to reveal our block for the Woolen Oak Mystery Stitch-A-Long! It has been SO hard to keep our Harvest Basket block a secret. We hope you enjoy making it as much as we did! To download your free pattern, click here. Just add the free download to your cart, be sure to add the promo code FREE when you go to the checkout, and the price will revert to zero. Best way to shop!

In honor of our Woolen Oak Block reveal, we thought it might be nice to show you how we prepare our wool ...

added by Teri and Kara—Through the Needle's Eye 3 years, 9 months ago. under applique , fusible applique , hand applique , wool applique , woolen oak mystery stitch-a-long

3 ZINNIA Quilt-Class #2 from Melinda's Cutting Garden

The video is at the bottom of this blog.

It is so exciting to get this NEW 3 Zinnia quilt done. I hope this class will help you through the process of making this spectacular flower quilt.

I give a lot of tips and tricks to handling 3 flowers at once that will help even if you are only making one flower. I have put some chapter time stamps on this video so you can easily find something you want to review again or if you want to skip ahead.

9:08 Numbering Your Petals

10:40 Layering the Centers ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 3 years, 9 months ago. under flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula , zinnia quilt. melinda bula

3 Zinnia: Class #1 from Melinda's Cutting Garden

Video Class is at the bottom of this blog.

The history of making the 3 Zinnia quilt starts several years ago with me dying fabrics for my upcoming classes at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. I had seen past students having trouble with color and values and I thought that if I could make kits, they would all be successful and that is all a good instructor wants - for their students to be successful. So I became a dyeing machine. Morning, noon, and night, I was in the dying studio (the garage) working on perfecting my colors. It was ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 3 years, 10 months ago. under flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula , zinnia quilt. melinda bula

Zinnias on Parade from Melinda's Cutting Garden

What is a Saturday without a new video post from me? I made a new video called Zinnias on Parade - these are pictures from classes I've taught all over the country and at big shows. I thought you might like to see students' progress in a one day, 6-hour class. These beauties are in different stages of development and some of the fabrics used for these flowers were made from my hand-dyed fabrics (made in my garage) from back in the day. Some are the student’s own fabrics, too, and they are all beautiful no matter what fabric ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 3 years, 10 months ago. under flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula , zinnia quilt. melinda bula

Dogwood Finishing School - Class #5 from Melinda's Cutting Garden

Well, here's the last class in the Dogwood series. I've has much fun teaching you this pattern and I hope you are having fun, too, making a beautiful Dogwood quilt.

It's hard to write a post and watch a very smart and active granddaughter but I am trying.

Pool time! It's 100 degrees and the air conditioning went out...

First,grandpa has to get her out of the sink...

...then grandpa gave her a cream cheese bagel in the living room.

I will be introducing new patterns and kits in the future but the Dogwood ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 3 years, 10 months ago. under dogwood , dogwood pattern , flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , melinda bula , renegade thread play , sulky thread

Dogwood class #4 “Renegade Thread Play “ from Melinda's Cutting Garden

I have been excited to make this video and show you how to finish your Dogwood quilt or any other patterns you may have started in one of my classes and longed to finish. I have taught a lot of classes over the years and I know there are a lot of you wanting to finish your quilts. That is why I am doing these videos. I know some have criticized, "she is giving these away for free". I have had a great career and taught all over the country and internationally.

I've met a lot of wonderful people ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 3 years, 11 months ago. under dogwood , dogwood pattern , flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , renegade thread play , sulky thread

Rockets Red Glare from Nestlings By Robin

LOOK what hit mailboxes

last week!!

The July issue is now out

and yours truly

has a new quilt within

titled, 'Rockets Red Glare'.

THANK YOU Connecting Threads for

the perfect fabric line,

Hometown Americana II.

It saddens me that so many quilters

feel overwhelmed by applique'

because, to me, it is such a

creative and relaxing form of quilting.

Yes, there are sometimes

many pieces to handle but

no more than some of

the pieced quilts I have seen.

There are times that even I look

at one of my designs and ask,

"who designed all this work?".

Then ...

added by Robin 3 years, 11 months ago. under aq magazine , aqs , connecting threads , free-motion quilting , fusible applique , karen kay buckley , nestlings by robin , rockets , rockets red glare , stars

Dogwood Class #2 Fusing, Layering and Backgrounds from Melinda's Cutting Garden

I am SO glad you joined me for Dogwood Class #2. This video is going to cover a lot and is 45 minutes with resting spots along the way. In this video, I will cover:

How to fuse large pieces of fabric (like color A in this pattern)
Which pieces to cut out first
How the layout guide works
Adding the lining pieces to color A
How to use parchment paper sheets
Working with the first layer
How to choose a background fabric

There is homework for next week, which is to fuse and cut out all your fabric pieces ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 3 years, 11 months ago. under dogwood , flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , fusible flowers , melinda bula

Dogwood Class #3 "Finishing Your Petals and Leaves" from Melinda's Cutting Garden

Welcome back, the link to the third class in the Dogwood series is below. There's a lot of information I need to cover in this video. I love my flower - I just got it done last Thursday and I cannot wait to get the thread play going. This video, at 90 minutes, is longer than the first two. I did not want to split it into shorter classes because so many of you are ready to get started. You can stop the video, work on your flower, then start it up again.

I do want you to watch the ...

added by Cutting Garden Quilts 3 years, 11 months ago. under dogwood , flower quilt patterns , fusible applique , melinda bula

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