Favorites, Tips, Tricks, Fun Stuff, & Patterns
Our Favorites in 2025
- Quilter on Fire - Podcast and website
- The Quilt Show - Interactive online video/web TV site
- Riley Blake Designs - Designs, Free Patterns, Blogs, Shop
- Laundry Basket Quilts! - Classes, workshops, patterns, and presentations
- Missouri Star - Known for their YouTube videos, patterns, & quilting supplies
- Quiltagious - (Mukwonago) - Cutting edge fabrics and notions
- Linda's Electric Quilters - Patterns, Notions, Pantographs
- Quilt Blocks Galore - Easy search tool to find quilt blocks.....
- Karen Brown -Blogs, YouTube videos, tips....
- July 2024 - Lori Dickman's was our guest speaker.
Click HERE for her Speedy Solutions booklet. - Scrap-buster ideas - Click HERE
- Tutorial for The Plaidish Quilt - Click HERE
- February 2024 - Directions for February Book Bag Project - Click HERE!
- "24 SKILLS IN 2024" - Join your fellow quilters and see how many new skills can you check off?
2025 Challenge will be out soon! - January 2024 Luggage Tag Project - Click HERE!
- July 2023 - As promised - here are links to some patterns that you can make with your 2.5" strips from the July meeting!
These are from the APQ website, and you can find LOTS of other free patterns on the site!! - January 2023 - Mug of the Month
- Months of Mugs Block of the Month
- General Instructions
- Fabric Requirements
- Embroidery Designs
- Mug Handle Assembly
- February Heart
- March Shamrock
- April Bunny
- May Flower
- June Bee
- July Ice pop
- August Pineapple
- September Book
- October Pumpkin
- November Cabin
- December Tree
- January Snowflake
- Bonus Birthday Cake quilt block
- Months of Mugs Blocks of the Month - Finishing and variations
- How to construct a seamless pillowcase -
Click HERE for a .pdf of the instructions - How to make shadowed stars: https://1drv.ms/b/s!An306TgVXaDcnUA5TZhIHt1WQ2Sr
- Free Patterns from Moda: https://my.modafabrics.com/inspiration-resources/free-patterns
Other helpful hints and tips:
- Squaring up panels: https://youtu.be/ZGE2B5jcsms
- A Quilting Math Guide: https://1drv.ms/b/s!An306TgVXaDcoyWcIW_eXQHLNMv-
- Quilt Label Ideas:
https://1drv.ms/b/s!An306TgVXaDcoyWcIW_eXQHLNMv-
Helpful Info!
INFO for Wisconsin State Fair entries... https://wistatefair.com/competitions/quilting/
Blogs/Posts
- Link to Rebecca Lidstrom's Color Theory website: https://www.Studioquilts.com
- A new blog for you to try! Click here - CDKSTUDIOS.COM
- On Spotify, you can listen to the American Patchwork & Quilting Podcast, Quilt & Tell, and www.allpeoplequilt.com/podcast
- Several of our members also recommended a Facebook group, "Quilting with Amanda Murphy". She demonstrates the use of rulers in quilting (for those of us not ready for free motion quilting). Check it out and see what you think!
- American Patchwork and Quilting UFO Challenge
Make a resolution this year to clean out your UFOs. In the above link, you'll find a Challenge Chart that you can fill in with 12 projects that you want to complete in 2023. Although there's no guarantees that you'll finish all 12 projects, at least you'll have made significant progress on them!