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It’s time to change out the snowflake throw pillows in my living room, now that we are well into spring, haha! This week, I had the idea to make a 3D flower pillow to add some pretty spring blossoms to my collection of pillows. I like to use up scraps any way I can, so I dug around to find the palest pink scraps in my stash. I didn’t have enough of any one shade, but that makes for an even more lifelike flower. I plan to shade my petals from lightest to darkest. I cut out of paper three different petal sizes. I made 12 of the largest ones, 6 of the medium, and 6 of the smallest ones. You can print my petal templates here. Place your lightest outer petal colors, right sides together, and trace twelve sets of the largest petals. Repeat this process with six sets of medium petals of a slightly darker shade(s). Finally, trace six sets of the smallest petals of the darkest shade(s) you use. Stitch on the two curved sides pivoting at the point, backstitching at the flat bottom edge (leave the flat bottom open for turning). Cut out each petal with ⅛” seam allowance so the edges aren’t too bulky. Turn each petal right side out poking out the pointed end with a point turner or other semi-sharp tool. I finger-pressed each petal at this point. I didn’t want to crush the petals super flat by using an iron and finger pressing worked beautifully! I quilted up a pillow front panel with my go-to straight lines, and without taking it off my longarm I started adding petals. You could do this with a domestic machine in a similar fashion if you dropped your feed dogs and used the darning foot (free-motion foot). Here, you can see the first six large petals ready to stitch. I stitched down the flat edge of each and then did a curvy line up the middle leaving the last inch or so unstitched. This is where those soft finger-pressed edges really show well. I added another set of six large petals, overlapping just a little and making the opening in the center of the flower a little smaller. I stitched these petals down in the same way as the first set. Now for the medium petals. You can see these overlap much more and the opening in the middle is getting pretty small. I stitched these down the same way as before. I was surprised that it didn’t feel all that bulky. I suppose the staggering of the petals is the key to lightening the bulk. Now for the final set of petals. These are the smallest petals, and I decided to add a little fold to the flat edge of each one. For these, I just stitched the flat edge with its fold down and did not stitch up the middle. Because of that little fold, these petals curled over a little and laid against the others. I was debating if I should hand tac the outer tips down to hold them in place, but so far they look great as is! For the center, I decided on a fabric-covered button. I love doing these, they are so easy, and they have such a nice finishing touch. You could use a cute decorative button or any embellishment to cover the center opening. I hand-stitched the covered button down and added my backing to the pillow. The flower came out about 12” across. I made the pillow cover to fit an 18” form. And here it is! The first edition of this year's spring pillow collection. Happy Sunday everyone, Krista Follow all my quilty adventures on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. Visit my YouTube channel for free tutorials and tips. If you like my patterns, you can buy them on Etsy, and here on the website.

Last week, I received quite a few comments and questions about how I do my straight-line quilting. This is a question I often get when doing trunk shows, and I try to describe it while showing the quilts, but I've never done a blog showing my process. So this week, I spent a little time filming my straight-line quilting in action. I quilt almost all my quilts this way, it is super easy and fast! I do this style of quilting on my longarm, but you could do the same style on a domestic machine if you used a free-motion foot or a darning foot. Here, you can see the video I did showing one row of quilting on the baby quilt from last week's blog. I fill in each triangle sweeping up and down across the space to fill it in. I keep going into the next triangle until the whole row of triangles is done. Once it was all quilted, this is the back and front of that same quilt. You can see from the back that the triangle blocks connect to each other, so the quilting creates a diamond grid from the back. This is my Honeycomb Hexagon pattern. The blocks are all hexagons, and you can see how I fill in each block with straight lines curving around at the top and bottom to go for the next pass. I try to mount the quilts on my longarm in such a way that I can go from one hexagon block right into the next without stopping. In the case of my Fall Foliage quilt, I did up and down lines in all the hexagon leaf blocks. Then, I quilted side-to-side lines in all the fill-in triangles between the hexagons. It looks like the same texture, but the change in direction adds a little fun detail. My longarm is very old and does not have a stitch regulator or any computerized functions, so I freehand everything. I shoot for about ¼” spacing between my quilting lines but they are probably closer to ⅜” apart. If you look closer, you’ll see they are not perfect and I hope that encourages some of you! Don’t be afraid to try 🙂 Happy Sunday everyone, Krista Follow all my quilty adventures on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. Visit my YouTube channel for free tutorials and tips. If you like my patterns, you can buy them on Etsy, and here on the website.

I’m serious! You don’t need much fabric for this little baby quilt! Last weekend, I had a baby shower to go to and needed to work up a quick quilt. The mother-to-be loves surprises and never wants to know the gender ahead of time….! So, I went to my stash and scrounged around for something that looked gender-neutral. I found four fat quarters that looked good together and got to work. I love the way this little quilt turned out, and I thought I would share how I did it. You could always expand this idea to make a lap quilt or bigger! First, you’ll need four fat quarters. For this next quilt, I chose a black and white plaid plus three bright companion fabrics. The purple fabric is sort of an ombre shading lighter as it goes across the fabric. Follow this cutting guide to cut each fat quarter for the least amount of waste. You can print this diagram here and keep it with your supplies for future reference. From each fat quarter, you’ll get eight 6½” triangles, eight 3½” triangles, and a 1½” leftover strip (save this for later). You’ll also get 6½” wedge triangle pieces at the end of each 6½” strip, those make the perfect fill in pieces for the sides of your quilt. I laid out all my triangles, big and small to fill in all the space. There are six rows of seven triangle blocks each. This layout is about 29" x 36" when finished. I put one of the wedge triangle pieces on the ends of each row. I did come up two blocks short, but where there’s a will there’s a way! I had two wedge pieces left, and I sewed them to each other to make another triangle. I also sewed the 1½” leftover strips together until I could cut one more 6½” triangle from that. And just like that, I used up 100% of those fat quarters! Here you see how the 3½” triangles sewn together make 6½” triangle units. I was able to make eight blocks like this. I sewed the blocks into horizontal rows pressing the seams between the blocks open. Then, I sewed the rows to each other and pressed those long seams open too. And just like that, a quick gift was done! And, now I have a bonus quilt for when the next baby shower sneaks up on me. Happy Sunday everyone! And Happy Easter too! Krista Follow all my quilty adventures on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. Visit my YouTube channel for free tutorials and tips. If you like my patterns, you can buy them on Etsy, and here on the website.

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