Welcome to the final day of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Blog Tour! We’re glad you’re here. Hasn’t this been fun?! Please come back often for lots more great quilty stuff: how-tos, inspiration, product reviews and quilty thoughts.
Be sure to visit the Big Bundle Giveaway posts for your chance to win. Giveaway ends Monday, Nov. 12 at midnight. Winners posted Tuesday, Nov. 13.
Big thanks to all the designers who donated prizes and to this week’s industry sponsors: Handi Quilter, Red Rooster Fabrics, RJR Fabrics, Northcott, Quilting Treasures and Troy Fabrics.
Now, how about a few more Volume 6 blocks to get your blood pumping?!
Petit Fours by Marian Mapes
Marian Mapes chose a springtime palette for her block, Petit Fours. This would be great practice for set-in seams! (Not as hard as they sound, really.)
Spring Bouquet by Cheryl Almgren Taylor
Lovely applique by Cheryl Almgren Taylor stars in Spring Bouquet.
Boomerang by Angela Walters
Something a bit more contemporary from the young and talented Angela Walters: Boomerang.
Traveling Eddie by Sarah Bisel
Sarah Bisel’s Traveling Eddie would yield an interesting secondary design.
Let’s get right to the blog list.
Today’s Featured Designers
- Lisa Bassett relativelycreativepatterns.com/blog/
- Thomas Knauer thomasknauersews.com/
- Debbie Maddy blog.calicocarriage.com/
- April Mazzoleni april-makingendsmeet.blogspot.com/
- Celine Perkins perkinsdrygoods.com/blog/
- Anita Grossman Solomon makeitsimpler.blogspot.com
- Toby Lischko gatewayquiltsnstuff.blogspot.com
- Janelle Noack janellenoack.blogspot.com.au
- Sarah Bisel milkandhoneydesigns.blogspot.com
- Mary Ellen Von Holt littlequilts.blogspot.com
- Debra Gabel zebrapatterns.com
- Cindy Simms cindysimms.blogspot.com
- Valerie Uland mccallsquilting.com/blogs/
We have our regular daily giveaway going on, in addition to the Great Big Bundle giveaways. Be sure to leave a comment as instructed in either place.
For today’s regular giveaway, please leave a comment here by midnight Saturday, Nov. 10 and tell us about any quilting technique you’d like to learn. Whatever it is, we want to hear it. You might see your topic in an upcoming Quiltmaker! We’ll choose several winners and announce them here next week. Good luck! The Winners are: Judy (comment #152), Janet Frank (comment #28), and Annaleena (comment #10)! Congratulations!
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I just know there has got to be an easier way to hand applique than with glue or toothpicks~ I would love to find an article like that in an upcoming issue. Thanks for the great tour! I found so many new blogs and designers.
I like to do hand applique with blanket stitch. I have my method (needle up from underneath on the edge) but I once saw a different method and would like to learn this but I’ve never found it again. The needle came up from underneath in from the edge of the applique piece.
I love learning all new techniques but at the moment I fancy trying some felting and working with felt.
I would like to learn needle turn applique. I have tried it a few times with not so very good results.
All applique techniques would be appreciated. Thank you for the giveaway.
The applique techniques Thank you for the giveaway!
Needle turn applique. It drives me to distraction otherwise.
I would love to learn appliqué technique
Thanks for the chance to win.
Free-motion raw-edge applique. I’ve got several projects ready to go, but I chicken out every time I get them near the machine.
I would like to learn more about needle turn applique. I have been admiring Sue Daley’s and Ann Sutton’s projects.
I am still struggling to learn free motion quilting-not from lack of tutorials but from an inability on my part to get co-cordinated!
Seems like a lot of people want to learn needle turn applique. After a dozen large quilts using this technique, I can cross it off my list. Still want to master free motion quilting.
I’d like to learn more about how to applique perfect circles. I always seem to get a point somehwere on mine.
I’d like to learn needle turn applique!
I keep putting off freemotion quilting. It’s about time I started practicing it. That’s the best way to learn!
I’d like to learn some finishing techniques – how to bind scalloped edges, add piping to binding, making reversible binding nd the like. Sometimes it’s the little details that make the quilt.
I love the look of appliqué and I do so, but would love to have more info on the needle turn appliqué.
I would love to learn tipps about handquilting with a loop! I am new to it and would be greatful for every helpful input! Thanks so much. Has been a great tour!
I’d like to learn paper piecing.
I would love learn to do long wavy borders on a quilt, the kind with the inside curve. They add a WOW to a quilt!
I want to learn to machine quilt and to paper piece. Thanks for the great blog tour!
Wow! I could use mug to use. Hmmm, coffee, tea & hot chocolate! Great to sip on while I quilt at my longarm, piece my quilt or just sewing because that I what I love to do.
I want to learn fmq!
I really need to learn how to machine quilt. I piece, paper piece, appplique, englis paper piece and hand piece, just need to clearn how to machine quilt.
I want to learn to sew curved pieces and I want to try paper foundation piecing. I have a hard time distinguishing my right from my left, so all the flipping, roataing mirror images is tough for me. I will try again, though! Thanks for the great blog hop – so enjoyable!
I have never done applique. And all the pretty applique blocks I’ve seen in the blog tour make me want to learn. Thanks for the chance to win.
I’d like to learn curved piecing.
I’d like to learn how to applique. I guess I should say learn how to applique more accurately. I haven’t tried all the methods yet but, I wish there was a fool proof way to do it…at least one for this ol’fool! Thanks for great fun on this tour. Am already looking forward then next one.
I want to learn how to machine quilt. I can do basic in the ditch and outline stitching; but, I’d like to do more. I would also like to learn applique; but, I am intimidated by it. Thank you for a chance to win!
I am interested in learning more about sewing a curved seam and English paper piecing.
I would love to learn how to make a cathedral window. I just tried and it was …well not as nice as I hoped it would be!!
Thanks for having the blog tour again, I always enjoy it!!
I’d like to learn to quilt freehand feathers.
I would like to learn to applique. Thank you for the blog tour.
I have never try hand applique and aslo machine aplique. I would hear anything about history of quilting, Amish quilting.
I would like to try Paper Piecing. I am pretty game to try most anything, but that is still on my to do list. Thanks for the chances to win!
I’m a fairly new quilter, so learning almost any technique is on my list, especially since there are always several ways to do anything — I need to try a few a pick the one that works for me.
My biggest desire is to learn to free motion quilt on my domestic sewing machine. I try and try, but get pretty discouraged, and end up going back to the walking foot.
Would like to learn more on paper piecing. Thanks for the great posts this week and giveaways!
I’d like to learn how to do curved seams.
I need to learn to applique in a way that works for me. I get frustrated with my lack of skills.
I’m interested in finding ways to make sure the seams are pressed so that the bulk doesn’t all end up in the same place. I seem to always end up with intersections where all the seams are pressed in the same direction, so there are with 6 or 8 or more layers of fabric in that tiny little place. There has to be a way to avoid that!
I would like to become more proficient with fusible applique.
I would like to learn hand quilting.
I’m working on applique right now, so my next challenge is paper piecing, it looks easy but I have a lot of questions. Thanks.
I’m trying different methods of appliqueing right now so any lessons on them would be wonderful!
hulseybg@gmail.com
Different techniques on hand applique would be wonderful. Thanks sew much for this chance to win
I would like to learn more about needle turn applique.
I’d love to learn embellishing techniques…like adding beads, etc.
Since I am just a beginner, I would like to learn more about paper-piecing. I know a lot of quilters enjoy applique, but this just scares me to death. It must be easy and addictive. I think I want to learn but it will take a lot of easy lessons.
Sandi T.
sandit1@sbcglobal.net
I would love to learn the cathedral window work in simple, easy to follow steps.
I would like to learn scalloped borders, inside and outside the quilt, maybe some different border techniques like prairy points and others. Also cathedral window technique, I know there are different ways of doing this. thanks. Vivian
I would like to learn needle-turn applique. Tamsyn
I love to learn how to do better hand applique.
I want to learn to make fabulous curves!
I want to learn more about quilting on my home machine, as well as hand piecing. Thanks so much for a great blog hop!
I want to learn appliqué with bias tape/tubing/fusible tape, specifically creating designs in borders and blocks like Celtic knots and designs, such as Scarlett Rose’s designs and patterns.
For all of you that want an easier, faster, less mind-boggling Paper Piecing method, try Peggy Martin’s book Quick-Strip Paper Piecing, or her online Craftsy.com class by the same name! I use it for all my paper piecing and I love it!
I would like to learn more about mitering borders and unusual border finishes. I learn a great deal from reading your magazine — thanks.
quiltschon@att.net
Borders certainly I could use some new ideas for these
I like scrappy quilts. Freehand quilting looks really good on the scrappy style quilts. I’d like to see more beginner tips. I like having a “hard copy” of a magazine. I carry it with me in my”go” bag.
I love learning new techniques but the one technique I would like to learn is Bargello. I love the look especially the swirl table runner I saw recently.
Love the 100 blocks vol 6 blocks I have seen so far. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to learn more advanced applique techniques for dimensional effect.
Paper piecing and demos in the many ways of appliqué. Thank you for all your good articles and patterns.
I want to learn about sewing circles. I´ve never tried that, because I think it´s too hard to do!
Gun, Sweden
Curved seams are heard for me. thanks for a chance to win!
Would like to learn more about making labels for my quilts. Thanks.
I want to learn to be a better machine quilter! Thanks for the fun tour.
I’ve been struggling with the hand stitching with binding. As I look at all the blogs in your list one of them had a lesson hand the corners of binding, I’m now ready to give that a try. Love blog hops, I learn so much. Thanks
I want to see ideas for quilting on raw edge applique
I’d just like to learn applique in general
HI! MY NEXT STEP IS LEARNING TO DO FREE MOTION ON MY MACHINE! IT SOUNDS LIKE IT TAKES A LOT OF PRACTICE>SO HERE I GO ! WISH ME LUCK!
HAPPY STITCHING ALL!
This years Blog Tour has been fun to be a part of! Hopefully, I’ll be a bundle winner!
Thank you 100 Quiltmaker!
If you can find a way to make curves and hand work less daunting and intimidating, I would be forever grateful.
I’d like to learn more about combining blocks to create secondary patterns.
I love to learn and am teaching my self to applique and paper piece so any information on these will be helpful.
I would like to learn quilt-as-you-go. Seems hard but I know that it can’t be!
I need to get better at machine quilting. I also am interested in applique.
I’d like to learn how to get someone else to do my bindings. LOL!
I would like to learn how to make the centers of stars lay flat!
I’d like to see more on wool applique.
I would like to learn paper (foundation) piecing.
When you have stars points meeting in the middle of a block, how do you make them lay flat first time?
Really enjoyed the Blog tour scarlette shobbs@scarlette.com
Loved the Block tour – I would like help with dealing with templates. I avoid so many patterns because of them.
I’d love to learn paper piecing.
Paper piecing, although binding scalloped edges would be helpful too.
I would love to learn curved piecing. I’ve been wanting to make a quilt with curved seams, but I am afraid to try!
Thanks so much for the chance to win. I enjoyed following the blog tour all week!!!
Applique! Loving this blog tour, thanks!!
I’d love to learn paper piecing and machine quilting. Thanks for the chance to win.
I’d like to learn Hmong applique–a more structured form of reverse applique.
I’d love to learn how to to set in seams. I don’t have the confidence to try quilt blocks using these seams.
I still struggle with quilting the quilt on my home sewing machine.
I am am still working on my free motion quilting and love it when you have articles on it. Thanks for the blog tour. It is always fun.
I’d like to learn more about designing a quilt. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
I would like to learn more about using templates…
I think tips and great ideas on how to create perfect circles would be wonderful.
Would like to see more project on English paper piecing, any types of applique and mchine quilting.
Carol L
I enjoy looking at other quilter’s comments … I noticed there was a lot of applique mentioned! I saw someone using a cornstarch method of applique. They said it worked very nicely and made their pieces turn out great. I’d like to try that technique!
I would like to learn to quilt “in the hoop” – from start to finish and including the hard part of aligning continuous quilting motifs
I would like to see more info on quilting blocks individually on the domestic machine and then putting them together to make the quilt.
I would like instructions on quilting on a domestic sewing machine. Love your magazine! Keep up the good work. Thanks for the chance to win.
I would like to better learn machine binding. I enjoy doing one half by hand, but it would certainly go faster if I could do a nice-looking machine binding all around.
I would like to actually perfect quilting my quilt tops.
Applique and free motion quilting is something I would like to learn more about.
I would love to learn the easiest way to applique by hand.
I’d really like to learn more about how to decide what to quilt when instructions say:
“quilt as desired”. I’d like to see more examples of how the professionals would do theirs, and maybe not-so-professional, so those of us with less time or skills could at least have some more ideas of what we Might do.
I watched a show where they did the binding on potholders, by using the border. There was technique that you marked the corner, cut and sewed, but can’t remember how they did it. Would love to have easier ways to bind a quilted piece that looks neat and uses the border as part of the binding.
Debbie
i would love to learn to free motion quilt
I would love to learn more about free motion quilting.
I’d like to learn better curved piecing techniques.
I wish I could hand quilt properly. I’ve done a fair amount of hand quilting, but I know I hold the needle wrong and it’s not very pretty!
Maybe cathedral windows. I like that technique
I’d learn to do some cutwork in a quilt. Thanks for the giveaway!
I have learned quite a bit about piecing quilts this year but have not done much machine quilting so I will have to take the plunge and learn how to do it right.
I want to learn paper piecing.
I would like to learn how to hand quilt and machine applique.
I would like to learn more on machine quilting on my home sewing machine. The most problems I seem to have is keeping the backing from having puckers, even though I stretch, baste, or pin.
I just enjoy reading the different techniques and then trying them
I really want to learn paper piecing. It looks like it would be easy. I have never done it before and want to try it.
love applique and use several methods to make projects … needleturn and reverse applique are my next methods to try. i look forward to seeing more articles, tutorials and projects on either method.
I already saw it in one of the other comments, but curved piecing is something I really want to do. I want to learn more specifically about the “curved piecing presser foot or feet” that are available. Because of the cost I’m hesitant to buy one until I know more about it. Sounds like a great special feature to me!
I’d like to learn how to hand quilt!
I want to learn how to do stippling. I love the effect but I’m a little hesitant to try it myself.
I’d love to learn to applique – it’s a technique I definitely have not mastered.
I am trying to improve my FMQ. Practice, practice, practice!
I want to learn to do hand quilting!
sao in Midlothian, VA
I’d like to learn more about applique techniques.
I want to learn stipple quilting.
I want to master free motion quilting. I’m still at the beginner stage, but I’m practicing a lot.
Paper piecing is just beyond me. There has to be an easier way. I have tried so many tutorials and still having trouble. Yikes!
The one thing on my list of “want to learn” is handquilting. I love the way it looks, but I’m afraid to tackle it so far. Someday!
would love anything on Applique techniques, or Machine Quilting
I would like to learn curved piecing and get better at free motion quilting.
I would love to learn Trapunto. Thanks for a chance at the give-away!
I’d like to learn more setting ideas for my blocks. I LOVE Bonnie Hunter and her ways of making scrappy blocks and using leaders and enders to get extra blocks done. What to do with them is always a challenge. I’m finding straight sets and diagonal sets (with and without sashing) a little ho hum. HELP!
I’d like to learn applique or paper-piecing. Thanks for the chance to win.
I’ve done several projects with paper piecing, but I’ve heard there is a method of paper piecing where you don’t actually sew through the paper. This would eliminate the step of having to tear off the paper and the paper could be used repeatedly. I’d like instructions in this method. Thanks!
Two things I want to learn are how to add piping and how to bind odd angle quilt projects…like hexagon shape or scalloped shaped.
I’d really like to learn how to sew curves. I love looking at all those drunkard’s path type quilts, but I have no idea how to go about making one.
I want to learn how to needle turn applique. My mom is a master at it and she makes it look so easy. When I try to do it, I am literally killing the block as I go. Murder by
needle turn.
I’d love to learn how to use the 45 and 60 degree lines on my rulers to make cuts correctly.
I would like to learn about adding embellishments to my quilts. I see so much of it on the quilts at the shows now, but have not really tried much of it, such as beading, crystals, etc.
I would like to learn more about how to sew minature quilt blocks. eg. Recommend seam allowance, stitch length, paper piece or not, patterns.
Paperpiecing is fairly new to me so I need to keep reading up on it
Once I get it down, it will open up a whole new world of quilting 
I would like to learn paper piecing and free motion quilting.
I would like to learn to do curves.
I love to learn Paper Piercing. Thanks!
I would like to learn more about how to put together foundation pieced units.
I’d be interested in scallop bindings…how to do these and also different designs.
I think the dimensionality of trapunto would be fun to learn and experiment with in my quilting.
I need to get better at applique. I like handwork, but my applique just doesn’t look nice and I haven’t found a technique I can manage yet. I love circles and would like my circles to look round!
I’d love to learn how to do redwork. I know that, technically, that is embroidery, not quilting. But I LOVE the redwork (and blue work) patterns I see. I’ve just never learned how to do the hand stitching.
Paper piecing is not my specialty. I need some help with that (and time to practice!)
I would like to learn more about quilt as you go. I have a back problem and it is really hard to quilt big quilts.
I would love to learn English Paper Piecing.
I would like to learn more about free-motion quilting and designining quilt stitching patterns.
I want to learn so much! Paper piecing, applique, free-motion quilting just to name a few!
I really need to take the time and learn more about FMQ. I’ve got a book and dvd, just need to make the time to try out all the various patterns! Thanks for sharing!
Hi!!! I need to learn a lot being a new quilter!!!! But I would next like to learn to paper piece!!!! Thanks for the fun!!11
I learned to quilt by making a crib size sampler quilt which included a paper pieced block. I loved it. Volume 6 looks awesome.
Thanks for the chance!
I would love to learn turn needle applique!
I would love to learn free motion quilting!
Love the (machine) applique. So easy!
Thank you for the great designers blogs to check out!
I would love to try a scrappy star and have all the points come out perfect–well almost perfect! lol