Have you been lurking or participating in the quilt festival at park city girl – well with nearly 700 participants its big. I spent a couple of evenings trawling through all the links and found some amazing quilters out there … here is just a very small selection of some of my faves.

I love these stories of quilting together – the first image is from Dolls from the loft and tells the story of two wedding quilts – one never finished – the second image – from domesticat – is a star quilt for a baby shower with lots of donated fabric.

This past week has been so so busy – a craftin’ and a workin’ and not to mention yuk wasted day sick in bed. Despite that set back I have managed to get to 2 quilt projects – one of them was started a year ago and the other is for a baby due soon – click on the images for more details.

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1. DID YOU MANAGE TO SEE … refashion roundup – part 4 of an ongoing series … you people are so clever … the last of the halloween roundups for this year – have a good one if you celebrate …

   sort of going a bit mad with quilts – love the quilt festival and have a series of roundups to keep quilt fans busy one + two + three + more next week.

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2. MY FAVE CRAFT THIS WEEK: … ruffle hedgehog softie – very cute! …
3. ITS A QUILTY WEEK: … Read up on long arm quilters … and the virtual quilt project …
4. HOLIDAYS + GIFT GIVING: … partridge tree ornament …

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Have you been lurking or participating in the quilt festival at park city girl – well with nearly 700 participants its big. I spent a couple of evenings trawling through all the links and found some amazing quilters out there … here is just a very small selection of some of my faves.

jewel box quilt - I want a better view of this one – the rich colours look amazing – from prairieopolis

I love the solids on the grey on this quilt – really gorgeous – from one shabby chick.

this arrows quilt is pretty cute – love the yellow – from Zonnah

this gorgeous red dresden quilt from armchair quilter

These green stars are lovely – from spoolsisters

kellie wulfsohn’s (from don’t look now) quilt was recently featured on whipup on our machine quilting roundup – and has received an enormous response.

Kellie does wonderful applique work and beautiful quilting all using her home sewing machine. Kellie is also one of the quilters whose work is featured in an upcoming quilting book written by me and published by Chronicle (more on that later).

Kellie’s work has been featured in various quilting magazines and has appeared in quilting shows – I love how detailed and perfect each piece is, the lovely whimsical nature of the quilts, the outrageous unashamedly girlishness of them (there are some boys ones too though), and can you spot that she has a slight tree theme going on? Kellie has some patterns available and some free online tutes so check her out over here.

I really like this block and it looks pretty straight forward to put together. Link to tutorial.

Quilting on your home machine is not as easy as you might think. Your hands get sore, its difficult to maneuver a large quilt on your small sewing machine, the stitches can skip or jump, and getting nice even stitches is really quite tricky. Here are some online tutorials and explanations on how get quilting on your home machine.

Handmade by Alissa has a pebble free motion quilting tutorial and a basic how-to free motion quilt. [see image above]

Old barn co has a tutorial on stipple quilting – another stipple tutorial from camille

crazy mom quilts has a video tutorial on free motion quilting – also a grid quilting tutorial here.

Freda’s hive has a machine quilting tutorial.

Oh fransson has a no-nonsense guide to machine stipple quilting – and there is a free motion quilting tutorial on sew mama sew.

try out skill building panels and bloomin’ workshop machine quilting tips [see image above]

[and the fabulous tree quilt with all that free motion machine quilting is by Kellie Wulfsohn]

Cathe scanned in a vintage quilt piece she had to create an awesome array of crafty goodness. One of the projects she shares is a card holder made using an inkjet tshirt transfer of the scanned image. Link to tutorial.

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Lots of nifty ideas. Link to list, via Trueup.

Turning*turning has a collected a great collection of non-quilt patchwork projects. Link to roundup.

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True Up have an thorough review on Amy Butler’s Softwares CD. Link to review.