walking foot quilting

Moving Right Along from The Cozy Quilter

This has been a productive week in the sewing department! I finished quilting the potato chip quilt I made for the local hospice. I used the cut offs from the backing to make the binding, remembering after I had machine stitched it to the front of the quilt that it needed to be machine stitched down, not hand stitched as I usually do. Oops! This is because the quilts for the hospice will be washed and dried by machine often and the binding will stay on better if machine stitched. I did not want to un-sew all of the binding ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 6 months ago. under comfort quilts , counted cross stitch , crochet , finn , hospice quilts , placemats , slow sunday stitching , vacations , walking foot quilting

Secret Project Reveal! from The Cozy Quilter

For a few months now, I have been talking about a secret project. My cousin has finally received her quilt and so now I can show it to you, my blog readers! I did some sleuthing to find out my cousin's favourite colours and was told green and purple. I raided my stash to find several purples and greens that looked good together as well as a piece of gray hash dot fabric leftover from my modern sampler quilt. I had just enough of the gray fabric and even had to piece a few of the triangles to have ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 7 months ago. under crochet , finn , gifts , hst's , qst's , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

Blush from Sew Preeti Quilts

Have you seen my Blush?

Paul the model

I made the flimsy as a part of the Pantone Color Quilt Challenge which included three categories - mini quilt, not a mini quilt, and flimsy. The extremely limited guidelines are a double-edge sword. As participants we can make anything we want - no limits to creativity. Since we don't know the judging criteria we cannot make a quilt to win the challenge.

All the peaches

I chose to participate because I had plenty of gorgeous peachy goodness in my stash. I was in between projects. But most importantly, I wanted to play ...

added by Preeti 1 year, 8 months ago. under blush , hexie blocks , hexies , island batik , island batik fabrics , lap quilt , pantone color of the year , peach fuzz , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc2024 , throw quilt , value gradation , walking foot quilting

Fireworks and more! from Sew Preeti Quilts

Have you seen my newest finish? Fireworks was published in Make Modern Issue 59.

Published in MM#59

Fireworks was designed in EQ8 and made using Fire and Ice, an original collection designed by Claudia Pfeil.

I love this pattern because it is not paper-pieced and requires no special rulers, making it very accessible to quilters of all skill-levels.

I like big blocks :-)

Made of 12 large blocks, Fireworks finished at 60" by 79". The background and binding is Egg White, an Island Batik Neutral available all year round. The backing is Dove, an Island Batik Basic from the Bodacious ...

added by Preeti 1 year, 9 months ago. under eq8 , fireworks , island batik , island batik designer , lap quilt , make modern , pre-cuts , publication , rainbow scrap challenge , rsc2024 , throw quilt , walking foot quilting

Lupin Stitching in the Car in the Rain from The Cozy Quilter

Today, my husband was volunteering at a special event at a local museum. I went with him so I could look at the WW2 displays around the property. Shortly after we arrived, it started to rain and so I stayed in the car and listened to an audiobook while I added more stitches to my counted cross stitch Lupins. After about an hour, the rain stopped and the sun came out. People started arriving and the day was a success.

I asked my daughter and Finn to send me a picture of her recent cross stitch finish and they sent ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year, 11 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , gardens , hiking , overlapping tiles , quilts for survivors , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

Aurelia from Sew Preeti Quilts

Aurelia was published in Make Modern Issue #56.

Aurelia is now available in my Etsy Shop as a standalone pattern. It is a detailed pattern with 8 pages of step by step instructions including a coloring page.

I am offering a 25% discount till Friday, April 5, 2024.

Designed in EQ8, Aurelia uses Island Batik fabrics from two collection. The blues came from the Porcelain Blue collection and the Purples are from the Morris Mist collection.

Aurelia finished at 60" by 84". Not my usual colors, nevertheless I am thrilled with this finish.

Blue Skies, Breezy Day

For background I ...

added by Preeti 2 years ago. under bed quilt , etsy , etsy sale , giveaway , gradations quilt , island batik , island batik ambassador , island batik designer , island batik fabrics , make modern , star quilt , throw quilt , walking foot quilting

Quilting Retreat Report from The Cozy Quilter

Last weekend, I sewed for three days straight at the semi-annual Oxford Quilter's Guild retreat. Early in the pandemic, I cut up many of my scraps into 2.5" squares and put them into piles by colour into a plastic shoebox. I challenged myself to make quilts using these squares to use them up. I have made several quilts with these squares but still had lots left. I brought them and some gray and white print yardage with me to the retreat. I had designed this quilt in my head and put all the nine patches together at the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 1 month ago. under baby quilts , counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , rainbow scrap challenge , retreat , scraps , sewing bag , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

My Second November Quilting Retreat from The Cozy Quilter

Christine and I attended the annual November Crafter's retreat at Camp Kintail this past weekend. We both love these weekends away to get lots done on our current and new projects. I just noticed that a lot of my projects are green in this post... I made this I Spy HRT quilt top at the Oxford Guild retreat early in November and managed to get it quilted and bound at the retreat. I finished off the hand stitching on the binding at home this week.

I found this fun green and white striped fabric in my stash for the ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 5 months ago. under binding , comfort quilts , counted cross stitch , finn , hand sewing , hrt's , knitting , pineapple log cabin , rainbow scrap challenge , retreat , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

Tesu from Sew Preeti Quilts

Mom asked me to make a quilt for a young girl. Of course I said yes.

What is her name, I asked. She did not know.

How old, I enquired. Not sure, she replied.

Orange, Pink and Sparkly

At this point, I gave up. There is only so much eye-rolling I can do. I set about picking fabrics. Since I knew nothing about the recipient, my aim was to please my mother.

I chose a simple block using cream, pink and orange fabrics.

Design Wall

25 blocks

Ruby Star and Alison Glass Fabrics

Paul: Who is this for?
Me: Some ...

added by Preeti 2 years, 6 months ago. under baby girl , baby quilt , easy block , easy quilt , simple block , simple quilt , tesu , walking foot quilting , warm colors

A Variety of Projects from The Cozy Quilter

Somehow, I managed to do some sewing almost every day this past week. Two sunflowers are almost done in this quadrant of my sunflower cross stitch. I also added a bee and some leaves.

I'm going to a wedding shower tomorrow for my cousin's daughter. If you know her, please don't spill the beans. I am quite sure that the bride to be does not read my blog! I made her these pillowcases--they like to go camping so the canoe fabric was chosen with this in mind.

I also made her two coiled rope hot pads. The ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 years, 7 months ago. under baby gifts , counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , hst's , pumpkins , rope bowls , shweshwe , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

Quilting Ocean Waves Again from Fret Not Yourself

Through (Fannie Lou Hamer’s) example, I learned to think less about what I don’t have and instead focus on what I do have and how it can be be of use in the service of others.

~Keisha Blain

Quilting

Since this is a large project I’m quilting on my home machine, my first step is to quilt the main diagonals… again. Done without tucks this time. Next I found straight lines the length and width of the OWs. Now I’m trying to fill in by ditch stitching all the remaining triangles because many of these pieces ...

added by Ann 2 years, 9 months ago. under dipo faloyin , ocean waves , reading , walking foot quilting

My Checkered Past from Sew Preeti Quilts

If I could be doing anything quilty, it would be improv piecing. It is like taking a journey. "Come hither ye fabric scraps; together we will travel and see where we end up."

Here is the Island Batik Challenge for March. It reads

"March brings a free month for you to determine your own project of any size, using any theme and any technique!! This is an opportunity for you to express your creativity without guidelines. Have fun!"

And I did have fun. See how the bits and pieces grew.

Starting Point

And then there were two

Growing

Coming Together ...

added by Preeti 3 years, 2 months ago. under atlanta , aurifil thread , hobbs batting , improv piecing , improv quilt , island batik , island batik ambassador , lap quilt , pieced backing , quiltcon , rsc2023 , schmetz needles , scrappy improv , walking foot quilting

Quilting, Knitting and some New Projects in the Wings from The Cozy Quilter

I spent a little time each day this week working on quilting this wedding gift quilt. It is much bigger than the quilts I usually do using the walking foot on my domestic sewing machine so I decided to keep it simple with horizontal lines on the background fabric. The scrappy herringbone section is shown below. It involves a lot more manipulation the quilt I have finished three sections and will work on getting the rest done this week. Then, on to the binding!

I started another knitted cloth this week. I am using the same pattern as the last ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 2 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , knitting , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

A Little of This and A Little of That from The Cozy Quilter

Regular readers of my blog may remember that I took an introductory class in rug hooking last summer. The hooking has all been done for a while and I finally finished off my project last weekend. A friend who describes herself as a "hooker" and "addicted to fibre" showed me how to do the outer edge of my sheep project. I hope to hang this little rug on the wall in my sewing room. I would be quite willing to try another rug hooking project.

For the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, this week I used up some tiny scraps to make ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 3 months ago. under applique , comfort quilts , counted cross stitch , drunkard's path , elgin piecemakers , finn , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , scraps , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

It Began As A Quilt from The Snarky Quilter

My last big project of 2022 has been finishing a quilt I called “Happy Accidents” because it was inspired by a piece of woven paper my Roomba had chewed up. You can read about it here and here.

I thought it was done, and started the quilting. I managed to quilt most of what I wanted with a walking foot, and planned to do details with hand stitching. Like many plans, that didn’t go as expected. I found that working needle and thread through four, sometimes five, layers of cloth was challenging. After doing a bit of backstitching, my ...

added by snarkyquilter 3 years, 5 months ago. under art quilts , fabric printing , happy accidents , neocolor ii crayons , techniques , walking foot quilting (Comments)

A Busy Week from The Cozy Quilter

For many reasons, this has been a very busy week! Today was our church Christmas Bazaar so I was adding some quilting to some placemats every time I had a bit of time to sew this week. For this set, I quilted along the red stripes both vertically and horizontally, creating a grid.

Wavy lines were sewn in the boat and house sections of these placemats. I though they might be nice for a cottage.

These red and white placemats had a few rows of wavy lines added.

Organic wavy lines were quilted onto these paisley placemats.

Lots of people ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 5 months ago. under christmas , finn , placemats , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

The Ultimate Travel Bag from Sew Preeti Quilts

The Ultimate Travel Bag

The October 2022 Island Batik Challenge is "Its in the Bag", sponsored by Patterns by Annie.

I chose the bag, I chose the fabrics and everything was sent to me. Gosh, I am spoiled!!!

Soft & Stable - For Bags that Stand Tall

Pattern and the Hardware

I chose fabrics from the Spring 2022 Sunset Plains Collection. It is a beautiful collection with bright greens, reds and maroons designed by Kathy Engle. I love the Cactus print.

Flowers on my morning walk - Collection Inspiration?

Fabrics

On second thoughts, I should have chosen a non-directional print. Keeping the cactus ...

added by Preeti 3 years, 6 months ago. under by annie , island batik , island batik ambassador , patterns by annie , quilted bag , schmetz needles , sunset plains , travel bag , ultimate travel bag , walking foot quilting

Purple Scraps and Quilting is Underway. from The Cozy Quilter

I sewed with a friend earlier this week and pulled out my purple scraps for my Drunkard's path blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. The white background pieces are cut out and ready to sew to the pieced sections this coming week. It's always interesting to see what lurks in the bottom of the scrap bins!

I have several (too many) quilt tops waiting to be quilted so the push is on to get some of them done. I took three tops and backings to our church this week where I could lay them out on two tables ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 years, 9 months ago. under finn , quilts for survivors , rainbow scrap challenge , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

Planview Quilt Finish from Dizzy Quilts

For the past few years, I have participated in Quilting Jetgirl's QALs and I have to say, they've never disappointed. This year, the quilt pattern is Planview and it is awesome!

The pattern comes in 6 different sizes, from wall hanging to King. I chose to make the baby size because I thought it would be easier to manage given everything else I had going on over the last few months. But Yvonne's QALs are broken-down in easy to complete steps and she provide more than enough time to get each step done before publishing the next ...

added by Izzy 4 years, 1 month ago. under baby quilt , qal , quilting jetgirl , walking foot quilting

My Helper from The Cozy Quilter

I made a few more batik blocks this week for my Quilt for a Residential School Survivor. I only have two more blocks to make. I am contemplating ideas... Finn likes to "help" while I am sewing, or should I say, trying to sew...

I am going to make 12 blocks for this quilt--3 of each type. Here are my three log cabin variation blocks. I made the bottom one today and the one on the right with the green border earlier in the week.

I added the orange churn dash block to the collection today. I just have one ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 years, 1 month ago. under books , colour blocks , embroidery , finn , knitting , quilts for survivors , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

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