Carli The Quilter

Finishing Hand Embroidered CQ Block Quilt Tutorial If you are a crazy quilter beginner and you've got a CQ block started somewhere, take it out and use my hand tutorial for finishing a CQ Quilt or Block with batting and messy background showing and its kinda bulky. Of if you are a new-to-sewing and want to get your stitching fingers tuned up, this is the tutorial for you too. This is the tutorial for you! And when you are done, please post your work on Instagram using  #thegreatcrazyquiltalong When you comes to sandwiching this bulky CQ Block, I always add more batting to the border for instance, like this as seen below finished and the 2nd photo of messy stuff backside. You can't quite tell from this photo, but the red border is quite puffy in between the machine quilting leaf meandering along is kinda like trapunto-ish. This Silver Linings Crazy Quilt was the first quilt win that got me so excited. This quilt has many unique featu...

I am sure that all of you have  had your share of left over teenager jeans after their owners went off to college? Some of you may even have thought about it, but thought it would a waste of time reusing. You were afraid to go ahead and make it, all the time you put into it etc. Well this quilter over at Made With My Two Hands made this gorgeous quilt for a new baby I believe! Made reusing pj's from flannette. Way to go Karen Shulz