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Month five of the Fat Quarter Shop Americana Flower Farm Quilt Along brings a pop of deep blues and rich reds as we sew up the Paperwhites and Star Jasmine Blocks! Keep reading to get all the colorful details for this month’s blocks and to download the Fat Quarter Shop’s Americana Flower Farm Quilt Along Month 5 Color Guide.

Cutting Guides and Supplies

As you add a sprinkle of stars and stripes to your Flower Farm Sampler during the Americana Flower Farm Quilt Along, you will ...

In September, we made two new blocks for our Prairie Home Sampler Quilt, and October brings a sweet floral block to the sampling table! In October, we’re making just one block, the Prairie Lillies block. Keep reading to get all the quilty details for this month’s block and to download the Month 7 Prairie Home Sampler Quilt FREE PDF Cutting Guide.

Cutting Guides and Supplies

The cutting guides for the blocks in the Prairie Home Quilt Book differ a little bit from what you will need for the Prairie ...

Hello again, Jolly Jabber Readers, it’s Kailee! The quilt is finished, the binding is on, and now it’s time to fill you in on the final leg of this journey.

Today, I’m taking you through the process of deciding on the final layout of the blocks, piecing the top, picking the pantograph, adding the binding, and making the quilt label. Then, I have a handful of quilty confessions that I think (and hope) y’all will relate to! Now, let’s jump into today’s blog.

Piecing the Quilt Top

The instructions in the Triangles on a ...

The International Quilt Market was a weekend of friends, fabric, and fun, and today we’re wrapping up all the quilty goodness with Dusty, the Stardust charity bear as our guide! I hope you had fun following along in our stories and posts, whether this was your first time experiencing Quilt Market or you’ve been tagging along for years. Keep reading to see some of the beautiful fabrics, quilts, and notions!

Time for Sample Spree!

We were lucky to attend Sample Spree again, and what an experience it was! Moda Fabrics was the main highlight at Sample Spree, with ...

Shortcut Quilts just got a whole lot faster with the addition of Pebble Bee Cross Stitch Precuts! By replacing background yardage with a background precut, you can cut to the chase and start piecing in a flash. Last week on the blog, we showed you how you can use the Pebble Bee Cross Stitch Precuts with Foundation Paper. This week, we have three cute Shortcut Quilts recolored with Gentler Times and Pebble Bee Cross Stitch precuts because it only takes one pebble to start an avalanche of inspiration!

One of the things we love most about these precuts is their ...

In August, we made six stunning new blocks for our Prairie Home Sampler Quilt, and September brings some more sweet and shining blocks to sample! In September, we’re making two blocks: one Prairie Picnic Block and one Christmas Star Block. Keep reading to get all the quilty details for this month’s blocks and to download the Month 6 Prairie Home Sampler Quilt FREE PDF Cutting Guide.

Cutting Guides and Supplies

The cutting guides for the blocks in the Prairie Home Quilt Book differ a little bit from what you ...

Month four of the Fat Quarter Shop Americana Flower Farm Quilt Along brings a kaleidoscope of bright blues and pretty pinks as we sew up the Orchid and Snapdragon Blocks! Keep reading to get all the colorful details for this month’s blocks and to download the Fat Quarter Shop’s Americana Flower Farm Quilt Along Month 4 Color Guide.

Cutting Guides and Supplies

As you add a sprinkle of stars and stripes to your Flower Farm Sampler during the Americana Flower Farm Quilt Along, you will need ...

We’ve had so many exciting notions launch these last few months, who could keep track? Well, now you don’t have to! In today’s blog, we’re rounding up all the newest notions from Fat Quarter Shop, It’s Sew Emma, and Lori Holt of Bee in my Bonnet Co. Keep reading to find your new favorite notion and treat your sewing space to the upgrade it deserves!

AlphaClippies Specialty Marking Clips by It’s Sew Emma

Keep your quilting projects as neat as a button with the new AlphaClippies by It’s Sew Emma! This sturdy and ...

The Gentler Times collection by Lori Holt for Riley Blake Designs is perfectly scrappy, wonderfully versatile, and chock full of the retro prints, stylized florals, and ditzy details that we love from Lori. Whether you’re a confident beginner or a seasoned pro, fill your gentler times this summer with a new project! Keep reading to explore everything this collection has in store for you.

Gentler Times Quilt Kits

Quilt kits are the perfect gift to give yourself as a quilter, especially when they’re scrumptiously scrappy quilts like these! From a flock of gentle sheep to a garden of ...

Scrappy quilts are a favorite of mine because I get to showcase several of my favorite fabric collections in one cute quilt! After finishing two scrap quilts that used super small pieces and took almost three years to complete, I wanted a scrappy quilt that used bigger pieces of fabric, had bigger blocks, and would be done a lot quicker. Lori Holt is the queen of scrappy patterns, and I fell in love with the scrap-friendly Hearth & Home quilt while we were shooting the photos for her most recent quilt book, Prairie Home. Keep reading to learn all about how ...

Month three of the Fat Quarter Shop Americana Flower Farm Quilt Along brings a bushel of blues to play with as we sew up the Dahlia and Gentian Blocks! Keep reading to get all the colorful details for this month’s blocks and to download the Fat Quarter Shop’s Americana Flower Farm Quilt Along Month 3 Color Guide.

Cutting Guides and Supplies

As you add a sprinkle of stars and stripes to your Flower Farm Sampler during the Americana Flower Farm Quilt Along, you will need to ...

In July, we added two pretty prairie units to our growing collection of blocks, and August has a slew of oh-sew sweet blocks for us to make! In August, we’re making six blocks: four of the Shoo Fly Blocks, a Wagon Wheel Block, and a Prairie Charm Block. Keep reading to get all the quilty details for this month’s blocks and to download the Month 5 Prairie Home Sampler Quilt FREE PDF Cutting Guide.

Cutting Guides and Supplies

The cutting guides for the blocks in the Prairie Home Quilt ...

We’ve had sew much fun making the Flower Farm Sampler blocks for month one of the Fat Quarter Shop Americana Flower Farm Quilt Along with y’all! Month 2 has another bountiful bouquet of reds and blues for us to piece together. Keep reading to get all the colorful details for this month’s blocks and to download the Fat Quarter Shop’s Americana Flower Farm Quilt Along Month 2 Color Guide.

Cutting Guides and Supplies

As you add a sprinkle of stars and stripes to your ...

Our June blocks had us reaching new heights and welcoming in some precision piecing! This month, we will be sewing five blocks that will come together to make two pretty prairie units. July’s blocks are the Prairie Sunset Block and two each of the Print Prairie Pastures Block and the Background Prairie Pastures Block. Keep reading to get all the quilty details for this month’s blocks and to download the Month 4 Prairie Home Sampler Quilt FREE PDF Cutting Guide. 

Cutting Guides and Supplies

The cutting guides for the ...

Celebrate the launch of Lori Holt’s newest foundation paper and the creativity of this quilting community with the Vintage Milkmaid’s Star Challenge! With just one block, endless fabric options, unlimited creativity, and fun prizes along the way, we can’t wait to see what you make. Keep reading for all the details you need to join in on the quilty fun!

Vintage Milkmaid’s Star Foundation Paper by Lori Holt

The latest addition to Lori’s series of foundation papers is the Vintage Milkmaid’s Star Quilt Block, which comes in 12″ and 6″ blocks. Each paper pad ...

It’s finally time to indulge in a sweet sampling of everything the Jolly Bar Book Vol. 5 has to offer with the Jolly Bar 5 Sampler Quilt Along! Your reception of Vol. 5 of the Jolly Bar Book Series has melted our hearts like a candy bar in the Texas sun, and we can’t wait to see what you think of the sampler quilt we cooked up for you.

What supplies do you need for the Jolly Bar 5 Sampler Quilt?

The 76 1/2″ x 76 1/2″ square Jolly Bar 5 Sampler Quilt is great for ...

Stitch along with us as we revisit five of our favorite cross stitch finishing tutorials, all in one bingeable compilation video! So, grab a project and your favorite thing to fill your Limited Edition Fat Quarter Shop 40oz Quilty Mug with, and join us for nearly two hours of stitchy fun. Keep reading to find links to all of the original video tutorials and supply lists for each finishing.

Top 5 Cross Stitch Finishing Tutorials

Love Forever Simply Stamps

• Love Forever Simply Stamps Cross Stitch Pattern Downloadable PDF
• Love Forever Simply Stamps DMC Thread Pack & Floss Flower Thread Bobbins
• Priscilla ...

May was a month of gathering, growing, and preserving, and now it’s time to piece some blocks that have plenty of points and a forest of fun! For June, we will be sewing two blocks, the Prairie Welcome Block, and the Prairie Pines Unit. Keep reading to get all the quilty details for this month’s blocks and to download the Prairie Home Sampler Month Three Cutting Guide FREE PDF.

Cutting Guides and Supplies

The cutting guides for the blocks in the Prairie Home Quilt Book differ a little bit ...

Happy National Sewing Machine Day to all of our quilty friends! June 13th is dedicated to celebrating the tool that brings sew much joy, creativity, and community into our lives—the sewing machine! Today, we’re rounding up three of our favorite sewing machine cover patterns. One is from our 2022 National Sewing Machine Day celebration, and the other two are by Joanna Figueroa and Lori Holt. Have fun exploring these projects and get ready to be inspired to treat your favorite power tool to an accessory that is equal parts functional and fashionable.

Today is also the perfect day ...

As you have probably seen on our social media, I’ve been working on a new version of the All American Quilt by It’s Sew Emma in Lori Holt’s most recent fabric collection, Americana. As promised, I’m back with all the details you need to make one just like mine!

You’re Invited

This year, Lori Holt has an all-new patriotic collection called Americana that I just couldn’t wait to start sewing with! The first project on my list was a re-color of the All American Quilt in Americana, which adds a bit more color and ...