Visit us at www.stitchesquilting.com As the owner of Stitches Quilting, I opened my first store front in 2002 in Yuma Arizona. It was a thrill and dream come true. There was so much excitment in just touching all the glorious fabrics, threads and samples. I loved being able to inspire young and more mature quilters to work with such beautiful materials. The shoppe was always open to anyone that just simply wanted to come and sew. I loved having it busy with lots of people to inspire each other. We even had a children's area with a custom built cottage for them to play in with lots of toys to occupy their sweet minds as their mothers were distracted.
www.stitchesquilting.com
I had just recently been divorced prior to opening the store and had three beautiful boys. One of my sons had special needs from Tuberous Sclerosis (Luke's web site about TS)and it was challenging running the store but very fulfilling. (I also have a blog on Luke's website that talks about the challenges of being a special needs mom) I used money from my divorce settlement to open the store. It felt so wonderful to be destracted from the stress of the divorce. Unfortunately, my youngest son at 11 months of age had a traumatic brain injury less than 45 days after I opened the store. It was devastating. Despite odds with the help of many ladies and at high cost, I kept the store open. I worked along but realized it was unreasonable to keep the store open without jepardizing things for my children. I closed the store, remarried a phenomenal man, moved to Utah, became a caregiver for my mother with ALS Lou Gehrigs and along with my children. I also got three new step-daughters. My mother passed away, then I started working with my husband at his law firm www.walllegalsolutions.com and applied to be accepted to get my Master's Degree. I was accepted and completed a program in Healthcare Administration.
I love Utah and it is so wonderful to have the time to quilt and sew again. For motivation to complete my Master's thesis, my reward was to quilt again. I actually slept with the fabric and each day would touch it as I completed my thesis. I am not able to work full time outside of the home with the unique needs of my children but feel once again inclined to inspire others to quilt and provide them with beautiful supplies to enjoy. My hope is that you enjoy the online store and contact us if you have any questions. I will also sell patterns that I have designed from quilts I made for those I love. Happy Stitching and please don't hesitate to email if you have any questions.
deanna@stitchesquilting.com
Deanna
Favorite Links
Stitches Quilting
Luke's Tuberous Sclerosis Site
Wall & Wall, Attorneys at Law
This is the layout of the You Are Loved Quilt Pattern. Recognize the half square triangles and full squares in the pattern below.
Here is everything that will be included in your quilt kit.
Let’s make those half square triangles
Arrange your blocks and rows of squares. Take a photograph on your smart phone. Use the photograph as a reference as you are stitching your blocks into rows at a 1/4 inch seam allowance. Join your rows together by carefully pinning and nesting your seams together.
Remember you want to place your black word search block towards the center of your quilt. Use embroidery floss with a chenille or large eye needle to circle the positive words on your word search block.
Press your quilt top carefully and then join us for the next live video to learn how to quilt your You Are Loved quilt on your domestic sewing machine! Â
Be sure to check out our Live Well Live Strong Quilt Sew Along about Women’s Health & Wellness!
Spring showers bring Mae Flowers and this fabric collection has a bright hopeful spring feel! These fabrics complement each other with all the flowers, patterns and color!
Mae Flowers Penny Rose Fabric collection seemed to say make me into a lattice quilt!
Mae Flowers Lattice Spring Quilt Kit starts with a 5 inch square! The quilt is laid out with 6 horizontal rows and 6 vertical rows of white sashed squares together needing 36 – 5 inch squares!
Below you can get an idea of the pattern of how the quilt is laid out and pieced together using 2 x 5 inch white rectangles and 2 x 2 inch yellow squares.
Piece the quilt together using a 1/4 inch seam. Does this give you an idea of how the pattern is pieced together?
The quilt looks light and airy with the sunshine streaming through it! What would you use for the backing fabric? AND how would you quilt it too? We will do another blog post with tutorial of how to quilt this sweet quilt on your domestic sewing machine.
Spring Lattice Quilt design is perfect for a baby quilt with an approximate finished size is 42″x 42″.
Isn’t the Mae Flowers main print absolutely delightful? Should we use this fabric as the backing of the quilt? The main print also comes in a pink or green background.
What would you make with the Mae Flowers Fabric collection designed by Lindsey Wilkes of The Cottage Mama for Penny Rose Fabrics?
Can’t wait to hear about your quilty daydreams and let us know if there is anything we can do to help your dreams come true!
Spring Lattice Quilt Layout is a sashed 6 x 6 rows
Stitch your 13 rows together from the following layout using a 1/4 inch seam. Nest your seams when stitching the rows together. Add your 4 inch border around the four sides of the quilt! Square up and you are finished!
Selecting you fabric for your On Point Square Layer Cake Quilt.
You will need a Gingham Girls 10 inch square Layer Cake and 2 – Solid White Fabric 10 inch square Layer Cakes to make this 68 x 95 inch twin size quilt.
On Point Layer Cake Quilt needs the Gingham Girls Quilt Kit in either the 10 inch Layer Cake size or 5 inch charm pack size.
On Point 10 inch Layer Cake or 5 inch Square Charm Pack Quilt Kit for Gingham Girls Fabric Collection by Amy Smart in Stock at Stitches Quilting
Cut Your 10 inch Layer Cake to the Correct Size of Triangles Needed for On Point 10 Inch Layer Cake Quilt Pattern. Save those 2 inch strips that you cut from your layer cake to use in your next quilt.
Stitch the Top and Bottom Triangle on the Square. Then sew the Left and Right Triangle on the Square.
How to sew together an square to be on point with triangles. First sew the top and bottom triangles to the square block of fabric.
How to sew together an square to be on point with triangles. First sew the left C and right D triangles to the square block of fabric.
Square Up Your Onpoint Square Quilt Block with a 1/4 inch seam.
How to modify the Twin Size On Point 10 inch Layer Cake Square Quilt to a Baby Size using 5 inch charm packs.
Using a precut quilt but not using precut fabrics use this guide to cut your fabrics.
Build your quilt by sewing your quilt rows together one by one and matching your quarter inch seam.
Sew your rows together to build your quilt top into one piece matching your block points.
Add a border to your quilt top with these step by step instructions.
On Point 10 inch Layer Cake or 5 inch Square Charm Pack Quilt Kit
If you have any questions, please ask below. I’m creating this quilt with complete tutorial online Live with Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. You can turn on following and live post notifications on each platform so you don’t miss out. Be sure to follow Stitches Quilting Deanna Wall online because we just love to cheer you on and YOU motivate us to keep creating too!  Can’t wait to see what you create! Please post pictures online and tag Stitches Quilting!
Let’s Bake Sew Along Quilt – Join Us to make this quilt!
Learn how to quilt, sew, applique, embroidery, chicken scratch on gingham, cut fabric while sewalonging for the Let’s Bake Quilt designed by Lori Holt of Bee In My Bonnet!
I will be using Lori Holt’s newest fabric collection Bake Sale 2 to make the quilt! But don’t forget that you can use all your favorite fabrics in your stash! Here is the Let’s Bake Sew Along Schedule! Remember if you get behind you can easily catch up!
Here is the list of ingredients or supplies one would need for the Let’s Bake Sew Along Quilt. Remember you can always make substitutions!
Easy Modern Half Square Triangle Quilt for a beginning quilter to learn basic quilting techniques. The Easy Modern Half Square Triangle Quilt is perfect for the experienced quilter wanting to make something colorful, modern & fast while featuring favorite fabrics. When seeing this quilt, on Riley Blake Designs Blog post by Julia Frazier, I knew it was the perfect quilt to teach a basic week long start to finish beginning quilting course! So here we GO!
There are 6 video tutorials to take you step by step learning how to make this quilt! I want everyone to make the quilt but learn how to quilt it on their domestic machine. So the tutorial takes you through how to cut fabric with a rotary cutter, piece fabric together with a 1/4 inch seam, create the quilt top, square it up, layer your quilt sandwich, quilt your quilt sandwich on your domestic sewing machine, make a binding for the quilt, attach the binding then hand or machine stitch the binding to the FINISHED QUILT! So are you ready to learn how to quilt? Watch the videos and have some fun, because….. you know quilting is just not difficult!
I’m using Riley Blake Fabrics Bee Basics by Lori Holt of Bee In My Bonnet. The bright colors and small print attract me. There isn’t a large print featured fabric to the collection or accenting stripe so I feel like all the fabrics are weighted equally and lend to a Easy Giant Half Square Quilt. You can see that I laid out the colors of fabric in a gradient with reds, pinks, blues, greens, yellows and gray. Of course you are designing your own quilt and can lay out your fabrics in any way.
Don’t hesitate to duplicate fabrics in the half square triangles or have them all be a unique fabric. That of course is up to you. Dip into your stash of fabrics and find something that you will love. Design away as you are the artist of your quilt. If you are interested in purchasing a fat quarter collection of Bee Basics by Lori Holt then click here. The fat quarter collection of Bee Basics will give you enough fabric to make almost two quilt tops. One for you and one for a friend possibly.
Shopping for fabric? Remember you need a 16 inch square of fabric that can be cut into two triangles. There are 32 triangles in this quilt. If you want each triangle to be an unique fabric then pull 32 different pieces of fabric. If purchasing fabric from a store, get a fat quarter of the fabric if it is available or 1/2 yard of fabric (18 inches) to be able to cut your 16 inch square. Download and print the Easy Modern Half Square Triangle Design Sheet to cut small pieces of fabric for your layout.
When a 16 inch square is cut in half then you will have two triangles of fabric to work with.
To start the quilt I will cut 32 - 16 inch squares because I want each of my triangles to be a unique fabric. This will actually give me enough fabric to make two quilt tops of the Easy Modern Half Square Triangles.
I will then piece the two triangles together using a 1/4 inch seam to from a square.
Lay out all of the pieced triangles in a pattern of 4 sets across in 4 rows. This will make your quilt to be approximately 60 inches square.
I will sew Row 1 of the quilt top together
Sew together each row in the same fashion then we will sew each row to each other while nesting seams to ensure that all of our points match up.
Just so you have the vision, You will learn how to quilt with straight lines about 2 inches apart on your domestic sewing machine then here's the backing fabric that I used and pieced together.
Hopefully this helps you to get the concept of how to cut fabric and how to design your quilt top to begin the process. Tomorrow we will discuss a few more techniques and tips in detail to construct your quilt. At least this gives you a frame work to get your fabrics selected. I will post the live video of how we are constructing this quilt after it has been posted. Along with additional items to help you. Follow us on Facebook where we are hosting the full tutorial and sew along at https://www.facebook.com/stitchesquilting/ The Facebook video tutorials are embedded below.
12 Hacks Every Quilter Should Know – Summarized for you!
1a Quilt Hack – Piece with Neutral Thread and Use Large Spool of Thread
1b Quilt Hack – Use a larger spool of thread
1c Quilt Hack – Wide Mouth Jar Behind Machine for Large Thread
For MORE quilt hacks tips & instruction be sure to follow Deanna’s Live Video Tutorials on Facebook or YouTube. Interact and sew along with Deanna as she takes you from the beginning of a quilt all the way through to layering and quilting the quilt on your domestic machine.
2a Quilt Hack -Fabric Everywhere
2b Quilt Hack – Use Comic Boards to Fold Fabric
2c Quilt Hack – Fold Fabric Around a Comic Board
2d Quilt Hack -Use Comic Boards to Fold and Store Fabric
3b Quilt Hack – Use Spray Fabric Starch Press Block
3c Quilt Hack – Place Square Ruler over Quilt Block after Pressing
3d Quilt Hack – Weight the Ruler with the End of the Iron while the Quilt Block Cools
4a Quilt Hack – Measure Quarter Inch Seam Allowance with Ruler
Build your quilting skills with our Women’s Health Quilt Along and stitch together the Live Well Live Strong Quilt. Weekly Live Video Tutorials, Blog Posts, Tips, Hacks & Inspiration.
4c Quilt Hack – Place Blue Painters tape at the Quarter Inch Seam Allowance as Guide
5a Quilt Hack – Use a Quarter Inch Seam Quilt Foot for Piecing Use a Walking Foot for Binding and Quilting
6a Quilt Hack – Use Cookie Sheets to Sort Quilt Block Pieces with Flannel Fabric Under so They Don’t Slip
Build your quilting skills with our Women’s Health Quilt Along and stitch together the Live Well Live Strong Quilt. Weekly Live Video Tutorials, Blog Posts, Tips, Hacks & Inspiration.
8a Quilt Hack – Use Washable Elmer Glue Stick to Hold Your Binding in Place
8b Quilt Hack – Rub a bit of Elmer’s Washable Glue Stick to baste binding in place for stitching down
8c Quilt Hack – Use Clover Wonder Clips to Hold Binding in place
Build your quilting skills with our Women’s Health Quilt Along and stitch together the Live Well Live Strong Quilt. Weekly Live Video Tutorials, Blog Posts, Tips, Hacks & Inspiration.
9b Quilt Hack – Label Quilt Block Pieces with ABCs 123’s and clamps
10a Quilt Hack – Clean Your Sewing Machine Don’t Use Canned Spray Air
10b Quilt Hack – Use a clean paint brush to Clean You Sewing Machine
10c Quilt Hacks – Use a Re-tractor to Get Lint Out of your Sewing Machine
Build your quilting skills with our Women’s Health Quilt Along and stitch together the Live Well Live Strong Quilt. Weekly Live Video Tutorials, Blog Posts, Tips, Hacks & Inspiration.
10d Quilt Hack – Use the Cleaning Brush that came with your Sewing Machine
10e Quilt Hack – Use a Pipe Cleaner to Clean Your Sewing Machine
10f Quilt Hack – Use a Q-tip to Clean Your Sewing Machine
11a Quilt Hack – Press your seam allowances to set seams
11b Quilt Hack – Press your seam allowances to set seams
12a Quilt Hack – Press Seam Allowances to the Dark Side from the back of your quilt block second
12b Quilt Hack – Press Your Quilt Blocks up and down instead of Ironing
13a Quilt Hack – Sew Long Strips Together
12b Quilt Hack – Sew Sets of Strips Together
12c Quilt Hack – Cut Strip Sets Into Quilt Blocks
12d Quilt Hack – Arrange Quilt Blocks into Patterns to Sew Together
13a Quilt Hack – Use Sew In Interfacing to trace Applique Designs
13b Quilt Hack – Use a Shape to Trace the Applique Design
13c Quilt Hack – Lay the Interfacing to the Right Side of Your Fabric then Stitch on the Trace Line
13d Quilt Hack – After Stitching Trim the Excess Fabric about Quarter Inch from Shape Line
13e Quilt Hack – Cut a Hole in the Interfacing to Turn it Inside Out
13f Quilt Hack – The Center of the Interfacing has a small hole to turn inside out
13g Quilt Hack – Turn Inside Out so Right Side of Fabric is Showing
Build your quilting skills with our Women’s Health Quilt Along and stitch together the Live Well Live Strong Quilt. Weekly Live Video Tutorials, Blog Posts, Tips, Hacks & Inspiration.
13h Quilt Hack – Use a Point to Point Turner to smooth the edges of your applique
13h Quilt Hack – Place your Pressed Applique Shape into Place then machine or hand stitch
Build your quilting skills with our Women’s Health Quilt Along and stitch together the Live Well Live Strong Quilt. Weekly Live Video Tutorials, Blog Posts, Tips, Hacks & Inspiration.
This holiday bunting banner tutorial is simple to make, cut by hand or with a Cricut machine! Free pattern and tutorial available with SVG cutting files.
Here is what this Valentine Bunting Banner looks like when in Cricut’s Design Space ready to cut on the Cricut. I used the Cricut Maker to cut the fabric used in this Valentine Bunting Banner. Below is listed all of the supplies that I used and where they are available for sale in Stitches Quilting online store. Remember Cricut’s Design Space is free to use on your computer or as an APP on your portable handheld devices. Make a free Cricut account at www.cricut.com and click on the upper right hand corner to access Cricut Design Space.
Cut the Riley Blake Lost and Found Fabric in 12 inch strips or 12 inch square to get the fabric ready to place on the Cricut FabricGrip Cutting Mat. The sample was made with 3 different fabrics; of course you can customize your bunting to be any color combination! The letters were cut with Osnaberg Roclon Natural Fabric that has a bit of texture. Of course you could cut this entire project out of any substrate even felt or paper! Let your imagination crawl with the possibilities. What ideas do you have?
After cutting the fabric on the Cricut Maker the six bunting pieces will look like this. Examine the clean precise cuts!
Cut 7.5 inch length of 3.5 inch wide Jute Webbing for each bunting needed on your banner. The Valentine Love Bunting Banner above needs six 7.5 inch strips cut. After cutting the strips to length mirror the triangular cut on the fabric so it is consistent with the Jute Webbing.
Iron on the L-O-V-E letters and heart to the fabric with the Cricut Easy Press. Of course you can use any word expression other than “love” for your Valentine Bunting. Personalize it and make it yours.
Layer the fabric bunt over the 3.5 inch jute webbing and secure with stitching or hot glue. I actually sewed the fabric to the top of the jute webbing.
To assemble the bunting, I used 2 yards of a wired fabric ribbon. Find the center point of the ribbon and start arranging each bunting 2 inches apart. The bunting could be sewn to the ribbon or hot glued. This could be a sewing or no sew project of course!
Please share what you have made with this Fabric Bunting Tutorial in our Cricut Maker Quilt and Sew Facebook Group. If you are not already a member, its is completely FREE. We would love to have you join us! Let’s inspire each other and create together. Comment below with ideas or questions you might have, we are here to help.
To make sure you don’t miss out on any other tutorials, be sure to subscribe to the Stitches Quilting Newsletter and let’s get social on Facebook or Instagram! Can’t wait to see you soon!
Wishing you lots of love! XOXO, Deanna
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions and text are all genuinely mine.
It’s a Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday Week Long Fabric Sale! No Coupon Codes are needed as all sale prices are LIVE in the store right now! All quilting cotton fabrics are $4.00 to $6.00 per yard! No really and seriously! Best SALE ever eh?
Can’t wait to see what everyone purchases! Let’s not break the bank quilting and sewing!
Other coupon codes cannot be combined during this sale.
Did you know that Joann Fabric and Craft Stores carries several lines of Premium Quilting Cotton? Joann’s Quilt Shop Premium Quilting Cotton is a high quality with absolutely lovely designs that will make your project fantastic! AND best part is if you sign up with Joanns coupons you can get this Premium Quilting Cottons for great prices! Go browse their store and you will be impressed with the selection!
I selected 1930’s Premium Quilting Cottons from The Quilt Shop at Joann. The prints are lovely and bright! With a variety of fabrics ranging in light to bright hues, this Half Hexie Quilt will be fantastic! Now Joann’s doesn’t just have fabric they also sell the Cricut Maker that can rotary cut all your fabrics! You can check out Cricut.com to see the features of the Cricut Maker!
Joanns Premium Quilting Cotton Fabric was prepared in 12 inch strips since we are using a pattern from the Cricut Maker for the Half Hexie Quilt.
You can see that the Ipad is placed on the Cricut Maker and connected via bluetooth. (You can connect any smart phone, Ipad, Laptop or Computer with the Cricut Maker? The Half Hexie Quilt is pulled up through the free Cricut Design Space. After the fabric was cut in widths of 12 inches wide, I placed the premium quilting cotton fabric pretty side down on the pink Cricut FabricGrip Cutting Mat and now ready to cut Half Hexie Pieces for the quilt top. Even if you don’t own a Cricut yet…. Be sure to download the Cricut Design Space app and see all the creative things you can use it for sewing or quilting! You will be amazed!
Look at the perfectly cut out Half Hexies with the pdf printed out pattern from Cricut Design Space.
Use the pattern within Cricut Design Space to lay out your 1930’s fabric Half Hexies in the right order.
The Joanns Premium Quilting Cotton looks just divine as the Half Hexie Squares are all laid out in the right order. Wouldn’t you love to snuggle up with this happy quilt!
Sew the Half Hexie Shapes together at a 45 degree angle. You can see how the shapes are laid out prior to stitching together.
Here is a close up of how to lay out your half hexie shapes to then stitch together in a long row.
Notice how each half hexie shape is laid out on the sewing machine to stitch at a consistent 1/4 seam for the half hexie squares.
Keep sewing the Half Hexies together in rows of five.
Carefully Pin together two strips of 5 half hexies where the seams meet.
I’m not one to press my seams open but when matching seams, I push the flaps opposite directions. Here is a close up shot of the pinning
Stitch each row of five half hexies together at a 1/4 inch seam.
Open your two strips press and look at how your seams are matching up. Isn’t the Joanns Premium Quilting Cotton just beautiful? I admire the colors, design, quality and feel of the fabric.
Now stitch together your rows of two strips into four strips and keep continuing to build the quilt together.
Look at the Half Hexie Quilt with Joanns Premium Quilting Cotton Fabric Quilt Top come together. I am beyond pleased and can’t wait to quilt it now! I will use a 80/20 batting purchased from Joanns for the quilt and using extra fabric that I purchased for the backing. I have a long arm quilting machine but this quilt would be simple to quilt on a domestic sewing machine accentuating the shape of the hexie by stitching in the ditch and then sewing 1/2 inch inside the circumference of each hexie! PS…. I kind of wished I would have just used by domestic machine!
Look at the quilt top come together quilted! I have a long arm quilting machine but this quilt would be simple to quilt on a domestic sewing machine accentuating the shape of the hexie by stitching in the ditch and then sewing 1/2 inch inside the circumference of each hexie! PS…. I kind of wished I would have just used by domestic machine! I have never unpicked the quilting of a quilt but I LOVE this fabric and quilt so much that I just might!
What a divine quilt made with 1930’s Premium Quilting Cotton from the Quilt Shop at Joann and the Cricut Maker! I LOVE their fabric getting a discount and creating this lovely bright playful 1930s quilt!
Let’ me know what you think! Be sure to download your Joann or Cricut app on your smart phone and subscribe to Joann site and Cricut to get all the coupons! Here is a picture of my purchase at Joann for this project right at the cash register! Do you think I should unpick the quilt and re-quilt it? I am just so pleased with this quilt that will one day become an heirloom in our family! I hope you make one too – contact me if you have any questions or need some help!
XOXO,
This quilt was made in partnership with Circut and Joann! All opinions and thoughts are genuinely mine!
Piece the quilt together using a 1/4 inch seam. Does this give you an idea of how the pattern is pieced together?
1.5 yards – 3.5 inch Red Jute Webbing at Stitches Quilting Online Store
Half a yard each – Riley Blake My Minds Eye Lost and Fabric Fabric at Stitches Quilting Online Store
Half a yard – Roclon Osnaberg Natural Fabric at Stitches Quilting Online Store
XOXO,
