Strip quilting

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.

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

The week between Christmas and New Year's I pin basted four quilts, preparing them for machine quilting. Today I am sharing the third finish of the four. I made this quilt from rectangles I found in a box of scraps from a quilt I made a number of years ago. There were a lot more rectangles than I remembered, so I started randomly placing them on my design wall and created this top. This was pure mindless sewing, which is needed on occasion! The machine quilting was purely mindless, too. I…

Transform your fabric scraps into beautiful new scrappy quilts by making string quilts. A tutorial from NewQuilters.com #stringquilts #stringquilttutorial

How to piece together quilts as you go blocks. Easy photo by photo instruction. Quilt as you go is a perfect way way to quilt on a small machine

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

Do you ever wonder how many quilts you can sew from your stash? I ponder this question a lot. My stash isn't huge but it was beginning to feel out of control. It was time to sew a scrappy quilt and use the fabrics at the bottom of my bins - you know the ones that are destined to be forgotten forever. My fabric bins are sorted by colour and my original plan was to grab the blue bin and sew something but on a family drive inspiration struck! Instead I grabbed the blue, teal and aqua bins and…

Ashley Hough demonstrates a fun and useful new quilting technique for creating half square triangles known as tube quilting.

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

Explore our roundup of Jelly Roll Quilt Patterns: versatile, precut-friendly designs for quilters of all levels.