hand quilting Archives - Beth Ann Doing

This is one of my little quilt, each quilt star measures, two inches by two inches. Not paper pieced, machine pieced, (I go slow) clip, and press as I do, hand quilted.

This is an 18″ x 18″ quilt using traditional Red, White and Blue.

Little Quilt in Red, White and Blue, machine pieced and hand quilted

It’s machine pieced and hand quilted. I use only 100% cotton.

The Quilt back. The stitches are very small and add a texture to the quilt.

I do 8 to10 photo’s of things that are set ups. A stand, quilt, milk glass, flowers. Moving it to the dining table. Sitting in a red bowl. And again I took 6-8 pictures.

I like this, I pulled out a red, white and blue quilt. added it to the table and it works.

But for, “How long?”

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I’ve been hand quilting for quite a bit on this, it is what I had been working on at my Monday quilt group. So every Monday I stitch at home and it’s now all done.
When I was teaching, this was my beginner’s quilt 5 week class, the classes quilt pattern would have been 2 1/2″ squares, I cut mine down for a table topper size. Taper Candles
The squares are cut 1 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ the triangles cut 1 7/8″ x 1 7/8″ Machine pieced and hand quilted.

HERE is my binding tutorial for you

On a regular size quilt, I would cut my binding strips 2 1/2″ wide, but on this little one, I cut them 1 1/4″ wide.

I like, little quilts to have little binding.

All the sewing is the same, 1/4″ seam allowance.

Tutorial on how to add quilt binding to a quilt.

But, I like to trim the backing and batting about in half.
My sewing scissors

This is before the binding is turned and sewn down. You can turn it under and see what you like before trimming around the entire quilt. I like to hand sew the binding down, I can get the corners, better and yes, you will have to mess with them a bit to get them perfect, they are VERY tiny.

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