Dear fellow quilters/crafters
Your quilting story could be featured in an upcoming quilt book I am researching (not due for release until 2011). The book will touch on community and quilting and I would love to hear from you.

Please email me whipup[at]gmail.com if you have ever…
1. made quilts for charity
2. organised a quilt drive for your local community/church or larger organisation
3. participated in or organised a quilt swap, (or quilt block swap), virtual quilting bee or quilt-a-long
4. belonged to an ‘in person’ quilting group where you get together regularly to quilt
5. made or organised a community quilt / friendship quilt

I would love to hear your stories – there are no boundaries on age or location – wherever you live, whoever you are – I want to hear from you. Email me telling the where and when of your quilting project and I will follow up with further questions.
thanks so much for your help.

Kathreen

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.

crafty tammie sent in this link to see katie sew quilted houses tutorial.

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]

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.

Great project to do with your child – I definitely think you could turn this into a “me and my boy” quilt as well! Link to tutorial.

Love the look of this block. Link to tutorial. Photo from One Flew Over.

Nifty technique! Link to tutorial.