Strip pieced quilts

Strip piecing quilts can save time and money. Top US blogger Amy Smart shares tips to accurately cut and piece fabric for fast quilt blocks.

[lengthy blog post warning] In my "studio" this week it has been all about small patchwork piecing, small scale prints and those much loved retro / 30's fabrics that I have been collecting so enthusi

Emily Dennis of quiltylove.com made this scrappy and happy string quilt using leftover fabric strips from various projects. It's such a great way to use up fabric and the quilt turned out amazing! #quilts #scrappyquilt #quilting

Looking for scrappy strip quilt patterns? Here ya go! The first question would be - got scraps?! I bet you do!

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A while back my friend Sara (@saracecilquilts) posted a picture on Instagram of a quilt she made from 2.5" strips. It was darling, and she graciously shared her cutting dimensions with me. After doing a bit of figuring, I came up with {rough} dimensions for 3 sizes: baby, throw and twin. It's such a fast and fun quilt to sew together. Not to mention, a super-cute way to use up leftover strips. (or start with a brand-new jelly roll!) I've only made the twin size so far (I adore quilts that…

The last technique in my new book STRIP QUILT SECRETS is actually several techniques. PIECING ALTERNATIVES are methods that can be used for sewing strips in non-typical ways. Sometimes we just need so

Hi, all! May! The lovely month of May has arrived, with beautiful springtime weather to enjoy and the end of this year's Hands2Help Chall...

Follow Jean's step-by-step instructions to sew beautiful modern Log Cabin blocks using strips of Northcott's Artisan Spirit fabrics.

Here's another fun technique you can try - disappearing stripes quilt blocks using simple strips. You can cut your own, or use precut Honey Bun strips which are 1-1/2 inches wide or Jelly Rolls which are 2-1/2 inches wide.

I'm still trying to work through my scraps. I know I've mentioned it before, but I am trying to get rid of all my scraps. Haha, sounds ambitious-- and it is! This is one of the fastest and easiest ways to work through strips of scraps. I made a blue one a couple years ago and like it so much I make a colorful one. (I explained my method in this post, or send me an email and I'll try to help). There's minimal quilting in this one. I sewed in the ditch along each row horizontally and then…

[lengthy blog post warning] In my "studio" this week it has been all about small patchwork piecing, small scale prints and tho...

Learn how to make a string quilt using leftover strips from your stash. If you have strips of fabric that are either from a collection (think jelly roll) or from scraps, the string quilt is

String quilt tutorial on how to make it look better using stripes or makers

Worn and Washed Strip Quilt | Red Pepper Quilts 2015

Hello hello! I've been lucky enough to have had the chance to play with Tilda's new fabric range Harvest over the past few weeks. It's such a pretty collection of colours and prints and today's the day I get to share what I've been making as part of the Blog Hop 2 Green

Very excited about this quilt, which was my take on a challenge to design a quilt using 2.5″ strips of fabric. Each strip is quilted with a different free motion quilt design. It was inspired by a photo I saw on Facebook of a linen wall hanging made by Judith Poxson Fawkes.

There are a few different ways to make these diagonal quilt blocks...but by far my favorite method is this tube method below. These are fairly easy blocks to make, but I wouldn't recommend this quilt to a brand new quilter as there are tons of bias (stretchy) edges to deal with. Read through the...Read More

Yes, I'm still playing around and tinkering with string blocks - if you haven't seen it - check out my other string block post here: String Blocks and More! One of the quilt layouts I had drawn up was to arrange the string blocks in a pole twist (twisted ribbon) style quilt. This quilt is essentially made with 90 String Block Half Square Triangles. With a 9 HST across x 10 HST down, three borders: the quilt measures about 84" x 91". UPDATE: Don't forget to go to the bottom of this post to…