Beautiful Classic Floral Spray - Machine Embroidery Design

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Watch this design come to life on your fabric canvas. This gorgeous design has been thoughtfully digitized so that your stitch-out only requires you to thread each color once. Additionally, you will receive exact color numbers used, but more importantly, you will receive instructions on how to confidently choose your own thread palette from your existing stash of machine embroidery thread. We are sure you will enjoy the process of watching this design come to life before your eyes. The design fits a 5x7 hoop, in “landscape” position. The actual design is about 4 ½” x 5 ½”.

ITH - Quilted Christmas Wallhanging

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This machine quilted in the hoop machine embroidery design is a quick and fun project to make for Christmas gifts. My children's teachers were thrilled with them! It is also a great use of small pieces of fabric, batting, and stabilizer. Instructions are written such that even a beginner can make it.

The embroidery files have block sizes ranging from 4" to 9.5" so you can make as small or as large as you want. The smaller one looks great as a "bell pull." Available in multiple machine formats and hoop sizes - all in the same download. Click here to see them

To Grandmother's House We Go - a free quilt pattern

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This quilt is a take on little red riding hood. I just think it is adorable for girls of any age! This is a great opportunity to learn flying geese. There is a little applique, for those who just want to get their toes wet, and the rest is traditional piecing. It is definitely a great opportunity to use up some of those fabric scraps! Windham Fabrics has provided this free quilt pattern.

A finish - Customer Quilt - Going Batty

I have a customer who is a member of a Spelunking group. What is spelunking? It is for people who actually enjoy crawling around in caves and other dark crevices in the earth. I will stick to quilting and an occasional hike in wide open spaces.









Anyway, every year a group of Spelunkers gets together and they part of their activities is a silent auction. She always makes a quilt for the auction and this is the current year's installment.










Typically, her quilts for this event include bats in the fabric and I believe the last couple of years the quilting was a design that included bats. This year, I felt like the design of the quilt was calling for a geometric quilting design. At first, I was leaning towards squares/lines....then the circles changed my mind. I landed on this circular "bubbles" all-over design.




Do you have a quilt that needs finishing? I would love the opportunity to quilt for you. Please e-mail me:
michele.hester@gmail.com

A lesson in Values - free quilt pattern

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This quilt is a great one to learn about the use of color value in quilt-making. It is also a great use of scraps.

The designer gives instructions for block sizes from 12 to 28-inches.....with a 28-inch quilt square, you will have a finished quilt top in no time at all!

Free Floral Animal Collage quilt

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Have you made a collage quilt yet? I haven't, but I definitely want to do so. I was happy to run across this free floral animal collage quilt pattern. Going on my must-make list.

Charm Square Quilt Pattern - Free

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Whenever I look at a quilt and have a hard time figuring out where the square units are, I always think it has got to be a difficult quilt. Most of the time they are not though.....as is the case with this beauty.

This pattern utilizes charm packs and 2 background colors in yardage.....so even picking your fabrics is easy! The designer gives great strip cutting and chain piecing instructions that make this quilt a breeze.

Free Quilted Bag Pattern

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Ambrosia Bag by Amanda Murphy This complimentary bag design features fabrics in the "Ambrosia" collection by Amanda Murphy for Robert Kaufman Fabrics. It is a great way to practice your free-motion quilting!

Free Kim Diehl inspired quilt pattern

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Who doesn't love a good Kim Diehl quilt pattern? This one is made with Asian-inspired fabrics - something I don't think I would have thought of for a Kim Diehl pattern....usually made with civil war era fabric prints.

Beautiful free quilt pattern

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I think this quilt is beautiful. I like the depth that the borders add to it.

It was originally posted as a mystery quilt, but that was some time ago, so all the "pieces" of the puzzle are posted and you don't have to do it as a mystery.

It is interesting to note that this quilt is actually set on point, even though at first glance it appears to be a horizontal row quilt.

Free Fat Quarter Friendly Quilt Pattern

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This is a really pretty one and makes great use of a fat quarter pack.

The instructions include very good strip cutting, which I love!

Enjoy!

Got Charm Squares? - Free Quilt Pattern

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This quilt utilizes charm squares - of course, you can cut your own, but I have some sitting around that I always wonder - "what should I do with these?"

The pattern is written by a blogger and appears to be well written. At least it doesn't just give you templates and say good luck!

Don't let the front page scare you off - shows measurements are shown in metric....but the pattern gives you standard measurements for cutting/piecing.

Free Quilt Pattern - Glitz Garden

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Oddly shaped quilts always intrigue me - especially when they are more "traditional" in the main design. The pattern is a combination of applique and traditional piecing. No templates though - just regular rotary cutting in the traditional piecing. Thank you, Michael Miller, for the free quilt pattern.

Free Quilt Pattern - Star Frost

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This pattern is not for the faint of heart. It is a traditionally pieced quilt - and contains a lot of y-seams. It also uses templates, rather than strip cutting instructions. It is beautiful though and might be worth the challenge. Thank you, Michael Miller, for the free quilt pattern.

Free Quilt Pattern - Dancing Dahlias

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This pattern is an applique pattern, but the pieces are large and not complicated....The Dresden plate "dahlias" are pieced first, then appliqued.The back of it is even adorable! Thank you, Michael Miller, for the free quilt pattern.

Stunning Free Quilt Pattern - Bravo Indigo

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I don't know how I missed this one before - I think it is absolutely stunning! The pattern includes strip cutting (no pesky templates) and you know how I love my patterns that go the extra mile to give good instructions. This one goes on my must-make list. Thank you Michael Miller for the free quilt pattern!

Quick Easy Gift - free bookmark tutorial

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This would make a great quick and easy Christmas gift - especially for teachers.....AND you get to use some of the decorative stitches you paid WAY too much money for! I know you know what I'm talking about......

Free Quilt Pattern - WAY easier than it looks

I recently came across a new-to-me source for free quilt patterns. This one is going on my must-make list. How cute would this be in a lake house or beach-front home.....OR a home for dreamers far away from either one. Click here to get the pattern - thanks to Quilters Select for this one.

Quilting is finished!

Just finished the quilting of this queen-size quilt. Now to trim and bind.

This is the disappearing hourglass squares- used fat quarters and a 12 1/2 square ruler to make the blocks.........the borders are leftovers cut and pieced

 I have never been disappointed with the thread tension on my APQS Millenium....not sure how well you can see it, but the stitches are perfectly balanced.

The thread is Glide in both the upper and bobbin. And the pantograph is Dogwood from Urban Elementz.

Little bit of quilting my APQS Millenium

What are you working on? I have been working on this quilt - hope to finish soon. I have been pretty sick for a couple of months now, so my stamina hasn't been so good.....hope to pick up the pace soon, because it is time to start preparing for Christmas!

Here is a full shot of the top, just after I finished piecing it.

The pattern is a disappearing hourglass, I just used the scraps to make the borders. 

The pantograph quilting pattern is Dogwood on the Urban Elementz site.

Pieced on my Baby Lock.














The quilting is being done on my APQS Millenium.