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Happy Mother’s Day from The Quilt Ladies

Rocking in History

Happy Mother’s Day from my home to all you quilt. A bit of my story.

Pin Wheel Quilt Pattern Block in Yellow and Orange

Long ago, my Great-great Grandmother made this quilt.

I knew nothing of the quilt or her until years and years later.

But this quilt changed a lot in me and in my life. Here is the Pinwheel Quilt Pattern for you !

What I knew, was this rocker. This is (above) my Great Grandmother, Martha Hale. The rocker was hers and she was the ONLY one who sat in it. I remember her kitchen with a long white table and really heavy chairs. I remember the smells and I wish with all my heart I had been older to talk and listen to her. She lived until she was 93 years old.

This is my Grandmother, Glade, my hero, my heart and my friend. Grandma lived, she laughed, she played and she worked very hard in a man’s world of her day. She was teaching and I was learning from her until the day she left us, I had the honor of being her grand-daughter.

On one of the very last times I’d visited my Great-Grandmother Hale, pictured above. My Grandmother Glade remembers me saying, “I love that rocker.” A week before my wedding Grandma Glade asked me to stop down to her house, I did and when I arrived she gave me the rocker. She had it for years, I’d never seen it in her home. When I asked she said, “I’ve been holding it for you.”

This is my mother in the rocker. Mom is still with us in a nursing center, she is 92.

And my Belinda, my sister, with Grandma Glade. Belinda was 9 years old when I was born, she named me, she never played with dolls again, she had me, I was her doll.

She gives me her love and she has mine, 100% until the day I die.

These ladies and this rocker is a staple in my life and in our home, it has rocked many babies, and it has never asked for anything. It’s as solid as my family of Ladies.

Happy Mother’s Day
to all who are with us and in our hearts today.

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Fun Quilt Pattern Block for You to Make

From my book, Center of It

One of my free quilt patterns for you, log cabin center and a triangle outside borders. It’s ten inch by ten inch finished size quilt block. Here is the outside border is here for you

Log Cabin quilt block with triangle edges

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Cut 1

Medium 1 1/2″ x 2 1/2″

Cut 1 Light 1 1/2″ X 2 1/2″

Sew together

Cut 2 Medium Dark 1 1/2″ x 2 1/2″

Cut 2 Dark 1 1/2″ x 4 1/2″

Sew to sides

Cut 2 Medium 1 1/2″ x 4 1/2″

Sew to the top and bottom

Cut 2 Medium Dark

1 1/2″ x 6 1/2″

Sew to the sides – add outside triangle

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Talk it Over Thursday – Great Quilt

My Quilt Begin

This is the quilt that started it all for me.

I had made pretty much all my clothes in high school, prom dresses to night gowns. After our boys arrived, I cross stitched and then moved to quilting. I started making quilted pillows first.
In 1984 we moved to Burlington, IA for Husband’s work and I went to a few quilt classes, auctions and was learning about quilting at every turn. I share this pin wheel quilt block this week too HERE

Great, Great Grandmother made My Mom a Pin Wheel Quilt

On a visit down to see us, my mother arrived with this quilt for me. As a child I’d never seen it, never heard anything about it.

Great, Great Grandmother made a Pin Wheel Quilt

My Great-great grandmother had made it for my mother. Mom remembers helping with cutting of the fabric and helped pump the sewing machine. It’s machine pieced and hand quilted.

The off blocks are done in a spider web quilt design.

The blocks are outline quilted

The edge and it’s tiny stitches.

This quilt is never used.

I have it out on a bed, I just like to looking at it and “I” do use it…All the time

Great-Great Grandma’s Pin Wheel Quilt Pattern

From A Quilt Around my House

My Great-Great Grandmother’s Quilt

was made with this pattern for my Mom when she was little. Mom remember helping with rocking the foot peddle back and forth.

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Finished block will be 6″ x 6″

My Great, Great Grandmother’s Pin Wheel Quilt Block Pattern
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Cutting for ONE Block

Cut 2 Green – 3 7/8″ x 3 7/8″

cut each block from corner to corner

(shown as gray)

Cut 1 Pink 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″

cut corner to corner and then again, corner to corner

(shown as red )

Cut 1 White 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″

cut corner to corner and then again, corner to corner

(shown as white)

My Great, Great Grandmother's Pin Wheel Quilt Block Pattern

Piece 4 blocks together as shown

Sew into rows

Sew rows together

Please remember,

there are other methods of piecing

the quarter triangle, this is how I do it.

Make to Monday Quilt Pattern – Crazy Man

Moving Over From The Quilt Ladies

Here’s a fun quilt block to make, the best part of this pattern is the color, which is why it’s named, Crazy Man for our #2 Grand. Play with your color placement, moving the colors around will change the look of this quilt block. From my quilt pattern book “Crazy Man”

Need help piecing Triangles HERE is how I do it.

Cut 6 Red 2 7/8” x 2 7/8” triangles

Cut 4 Blue 2 7/8” x 2 7/8” triangles

Cut 2 White 2 7/8” x 2 7/8” triangles

Cut 4 White 2 1/2” x 2 1/2”

Sew as Shown

how to make a quilt block with triangles

Crazy Man Quilt Pattern and how to put the quilt together

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My MOST Asked for How To !

Quilt Binding and Hand Stitching it Down

I’m sharing the way “I” do quilt binding. Like everything in quilting there are MANY ways. This is the way “I” do it ! !

I have tried and used other methods, but I always come back to this way. IF you ever think, “Should I pin this?” “PIN IT!” I am a firm believer that a moment to pin is better than a moment of seam ripping !
This post is huge with LOTS of pictures.

Cut your strip 2 ½” inches wide and long enough to go

all the around your quilt PLUS 6-8 Inches

More is ALWAYS better with this in my mind.

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How to make Quilt Binding Tutorial and How to Hand Stitch the Bind

Cut enough strips to go around the outside edge of your
quilt. Sew all strips together with a 45-degree angle.

Sew and Trim to ¼ inch seam allowance

Open and Press and trim any ends.

Do this to make all binding needed.

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BUT ALWAYS check YOUR BOBBIN THREAD, make sure you have enough to make it all the way around the quilt. NOTHING worse than to stop and fill or change a bobbin!

This is where “I” do it a bit different, I just can’t get the seam right using the fold the corner way, I do a straight seam here as shown.

Start sewing about 5-6 inches from your binding end,

Sew the binding with a ¼ inch seam allowance.

I mark with a pin on each corner

Sew the binding with a ¼ inch seam allowance. Stop ¼ from
the edge. Back stitch a few stitches.

Fold the binding back.

Fold binding back down on to the Quilt. Match up edges.

A diagonal fold will form between the
layers and a straight fold on top. Do corners one at a time, but

Do this on all four corners

Stop sewing about 4-5 inches from the first end.

Pin well, fold over and match the ends

Press

Open up and mark your SEWING line

On both sides

This is your SEWING line, Sew and trim seam.

Continue sewing the binding to the quilt.

The right side of the quilt

You will need to trim your batting, I like to trim mine about an 1/8 of an inch from the binding edge

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Fold the binding open

Pull it over the machine stitches.

Pin and I like to hand stitch

Blind Stitch, I like to hide my knot in the inside.

Single thread, I use about 18 inches at a time.

Catch just a bit of fabric on the binding,

Take a stitch straight across and then back into the binding just a few threads.

Make sure your thread matches and as below, I have about 6-8 stitches down in this photo

Stitch all the way into the fold.

Pull your needle out and fold other corner over,

Sew the corners closed on BOTH sides. Back side here

Push needle through and stitch the front corner seam closed.

Push needle through to the back and continue sewing around the quilt.

Finished corners.

Do all Four Corners

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How to Add Quilt Binding and Stitch it Down

More it On Over – The Quilt Ladies

I’m sharing the way “I” do quilt binding. Like everything in quilting there are MANY ways. This is the way “I” do it ! !

Cut your strip 2 ½” inches wide and long enough to go

all the around your quilt PLUS 6-8 Inches

More is ALWAYS better with this

The Quilt Ladies NOW on Kindle and NOOK

Cut enough strips to go around the outside edge of your
quilt. Sew all strips together with a 45-degree angle.

Sew and Trim to ¼ inch seam allowance
Open and Press and trim any ends. Do this
to make all binding needed.

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ALWAYS check YOUR BOBBIN THREAD, make sure you have enough to make it all the way around the quilt. NOTHING worse than to stop and fill or change a bobbin!

This is where “I” do it a bit different, I just can’t get the seam right using the fold the corner way, I do a straight seam here as shown

Start sewing about 5-6 inches from your binding end,

Sew the binding with a ¼ inch seam allowance.

I mark with a pin on each cornerSew the binding with a ¼ inch seam allowance. Stop ¼ from
the edge. Back stitch a few stitches.Fold the binding back. Fold binding back down on to the Quilt. Match up edges. A diagonal fold will form between the
layers and a straight fold on top. Do corners one at a timeDo this on all four cornersStop sewing about 4-5 inches from the first end. Pin well, fold over and match the endsPressOpen up and mark your SEWING line On both sidesThis is your SEWING line, Sew and trim seam.Continue sewing the binding to the quilt. The right side of the quiltYou will need to trim your batting, I like to trim mine about an 1/8 of an inch from the binding edge

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Fold the binding open

Pull it over the machine stitches.

Pin and I like to hand stitch

Blind Stitch, I like to hide my knot in the inside.

Single thread, I use about 18 inches at a time.

Catch just a bit of fabric on the binding,

Take a stitch straight across and then back into the binding just a few threads.

Make sure your thread matches and as below, I have about 6-8 stitches down in this photo

Stitch all the way into the fold.

Pull your needle out and fold other corner over,

Sew the corners closed on BOTH sides. Back side here

Push needle through and stitch the front corner seam closed.

Push needle through to the back and continue sewing around the quilt.

Finished corners.

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English Rose Quilt Pattern for YOU

From my book 53 Quilt Pattern Blocks

This is “English Wedding Ring” Quilt Pattern for YOU. September is National Sewing Month, and a quilt pattern is the Best Way to SEW ! To me !

Just have to love this quilt pattern, it’s simple and fun !

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53 Quilt Block Patterns

Finished Quilt Block Size
10” x 10”

Cut 6 Burgundy 2 7/8” x 27/8”

Cut 6 White 2 7/8” x 27/8”

Make Triangles

Cut 5 White 2 ½” x 2 ½”

Cut 4 Burgundy 2 ½” x 2 ½”

Cut 4 Gray 2 ½” x 2 ½”

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A Pretty Pink Quilt Block Pattern

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Free Quilt Pattern from 53 Quilt block Patterns

Finished quilt block of 14″ x 14″

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Free Star quilt pattern from 53 Quilt Block Pattern Book

Finished
Quilt Block Size 14” x 14”

Cutting Colors for block on the left

Cut 8 White 27/8” x 2 7/8”

Cut 8 Pink 27/8” x 2 7/8”

Make Triangles

Cut 9 Pink 2½” x 2 ½”

Cut 8 Dk. Pink 2½” x 2 ½”

Cut 4 White 6½” x 2 ½”

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Log Cabin Quilt Block Pattern for YOU !

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Another one of My Log Cabin Quilt Blocks, it changes cut sizes as it move around the quilt block.

Finished Blocks 10″ x 10″

how to make a log cabin quilt pattern by The Quilt Ladies

Cut 1 Dk. Gray – 2 ½” x
2 ½”

Cut 1 Lt. Gray – 2 ½” x
2 ½”

Sew together

Cut 1 Purple – 2 ½” x 4 ½”

Sew to the right side

Cut 1 Blue – 2 ½” x 4 ½”

Sew to the bottom

Cut 1
Pink – 2 ½” x 6 ½”

Sew to the left side

Cut 1 Blue – 2 ½” x 6 ½”

Sew to the top

Cut 1 Gray – 1 ½” x 8 ½”

Sew to the right side

Cut 1 Red – 1 ½” x 9 ½”

Sew to the bottom

Cut 1 Blue – 1 ½” x 9 ½”

Sew to the left side

Cut 1 Red – 1 ½” x 8 ½”

Sew to the top

Cut 1 Blue – 1 ½” x 10 ½”

Sew to the right side

Cut 1 Gray – 1 ½” x 10 ½”

Sew to the left side

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