blue Archives - New Quilters Quilt patterns, tutorials, and inspiration Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:00:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://newquilters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cropped-New-Quilters-Four-Patch-Favicon-65x65.png blue Archives - New Quilters 32 32 Enlarge Your Quilt Backing with String Quilting https://newquilters.com/string-quilting-to-enlarge-quilt-backing/ https://newquilters.com/string-quilting-to-enlarge-quilt-backing/#respond Sat, 05 Nov 2016 06:50:48 +0000 http://quiltersdiary.com/?p=5957 Do you ever have a piece of fabric you’d love to use for a quilt backing, but it isn’t quite big enough to cover the whole area of the quilt? That’s the problem I ran into with this little baby quilt (38″ x 38″). I had a large scrap piece of flannel that would be...

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]]> https://newquilters.com/string-quilting-to-enlarge-quilt-backing/feed/ 0 Four small quilts that make perfect first projects https://newquilters.com/four-small-quilts-new-quilters/ https://newquilters.com/four-small-quilts-new-quilters/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:47:57 +0000 http://quiltersdiary.com/?p=5868 When you’re a new quilter, you can easily get frustrated and discourage yourself by biting off more than you can chew. It can be overwhelming to start out with a quilt that’s very large, for instance, or one that requires you to cut and sew a thousand tiny pieces, or master complicated blocks or advanced machine...

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]]> https://newquilters.com/four-small-quilts-new-quilters/feed/ 3 Log Cabin Quilt-as-you-go Block https://newquilters.com/log-cabin-quilt-as-you-go-block/ https://newquilters.com/log-cabin-quilt-as-you-go-block/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2015 03:46:07 +0000 http://quiltersdiary.com/?p=4823 Do you ever feel like you’re drowning in fabric scraps? That’s how I felt when I came back to my quilting room after spending most of the holidays away from my sewing machine. Having scrap piles everywhere is very stressful. But I hate to see any piece of fabric go to waste. So today, I...

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