Monster quilt

I'm a bit late wishing Happy Christmas - but the love is there!!! There was lots of last minute stitching .... Twin Tawny FrogMouths were born to us ..... I only have my phone camera so it is not clear but I assure you these babies are very sweet... and so good.... not whiney or noisy or demanding at all!! They are an Australian native bird and if you google it you will see much better pictures.... We are having fun watching them - they are moved from branch to branch each night so part of…

Monster quilt

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See how to turn knit fabric scraps into a fun monster applique quilt with this Craftsy quilt patterns and class! An easy quilt video class for beginners.

Every month Island Batik challenges their ambassadors... This month it's QAYG (quilt as you go) Where you layer the backing, b...

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I get a lot of requests about adding sashing to Quilt As You Go quilts. I've got a tutorial here showing how to add traditional sashing to a QAYG quilt, like this. But my favorite method is actually to add fake WONKY sashing to my blocks. That makes blocks that dance around in your quilt,

See how to turn knit fabric scraps into a fun monster applique quilt with this Craftsy quilt patterns and class! An easy quilt video class for beginners.

The wonderful thing about a quilt of monsters is that you just can't do it wrong. I decided to make a monster quilt for my little boy, before he gets too attached to his baby quilt (which is quite poorly made and won't last very long, I suspect). The pattern is from Craftsy's Cute Quilt-As-You-Go Applique Monsters taught by Wendi Gratz. Possibly the hardest part of this quilt is picking the colors for the backgrounds. It was hard to pick boy colors ... but I did come up with a nice…