Quilting History
This historical legend suggests that specific quilt patterns, like the "Log Cabin" or "North Star," were used as secret maps and signals for this network of escape routes.
What is The Underground Railroad?
This designer is famous for her "Farm Girl Vintage" style and her motto, "Quilty Love," often featuring whimsical, retro-inspired colors.
Who is Lori Holt?
To find the total number of square inches in a quilt top, you must multiply these two dimensions of the quilt.
What are length and width?
This type of quilt is made from a single, unbroken piece of fabric on the top, with the design created entirely by the intricate quilting stitches.
What is a wholecloth quilt?
This specialized machine foot uses a "blade" or guide to help quilters maintain a perfect, consistent distance from the edge of the fabric.
What is a quarter inch or 1/4 inch foot?
Popularized in the mid-1800s, these social gatherings allowed women to socialize while collectively finishing a quilt top.
What is a quilting bee?
Known for her "maximalist" style, this FreeSpirit designer often hides small animals or "surprises" within her vibrant, psychedelic fabric patterns.
Who is Tula Pink?
If you are cutting a standard width of fabric (WOF), which is typically 42 inches, this is how many 6-inch squares you can get from one strip.
What is 7?
Often associated with the 1930s, this "scrappy" quilt type features small, hexagonal pieces joined together to look like a blooming garden.
What is a Grandmother's Flower Garden?
Often the most important rule of a quilt retreat, this 5-letter word describes the disorganized pile of fabric, patterns, and tools a quilter brings from home.
What is a stash?
Originally from a small community in Alabama, these quilters became world-famous for their bold, improvisational style that many compare to modern abstract paintings.
Who are the Gees Bend Quilters?
This designer and artist began designing for scrapbook artists, famous for his moody, industrial-inspired "Abandon" and "Eclectic Elements" fabric lines
Who is Tim Holtz?
To turn a "raw" square into a Half-Square Triangle (HST) using the "two-at-a-time" method, you must add this many inches to your desired finished size.
What is 7/8 of an inch or 0.875?
This 19th-century fad involved using silk, velvet, and irregular shapes embellished with elaborate embroidery, often called "herringbone" or "feather" stitching.
What is a crazy quilt?
This is the common term for the "un-sewing" tool every quilter hopes to leave in the drawer, but inevitably uses to fix a mistake.
What is a seam ripper?
During the Great Depression, many women made "utility quilts" out of the patterned cotton sacks used to hold these two kitchen staples.
What are flour and feed sacks?
Often associated with "Civil War" reproductions and primitive styles, this designer is the creative force behind "Snowberry" and the "Simple Whatnots" Club.
Who is Kim Diehl?
This is the total number of "5-inch charms" you can cut from exactly one yard of fabric, assuming a 42-inch width and no mistakes.
What is 56?
This iconic American quilt style, featuring bold geometric shapes and solid colors, originated from a religious group in Pennsylvania and the Midwest.
What is Amish Quilting?
To prevent "puckering" when sewing through many layers of fabric or batting, quilters use this attachment that has its own set of feed dogs.
What is a walking foot?
This popular block, featuring a red center square to represent the hearth or "heart of the home," was often made during the Civil War to symbolize home and stability.
What is a log cabin?
This British artist and "colorist" is the leader of a namesake collective; he is world-renowned for his bold, large-scale floral prints and for encouraging quilters to stop being "afraid of color."
Who is Kaffe Fassett?
When calculating binding for a 60" x 80" quilt using 2.5-inch strips, this is the minimum number of strips needed (assuming 40" of usable width per strip).
What is 8 strips?
This technique involves sewing fabric scraps onto a foundation in a specific order to create a design, famously used to make "String" quilts or complex "Pineapple" blocks.
What is paper piecing?
Ana's Sewing Studio has storefront locations in these 4 Wisconsin cities.
What are Appleton, Columbus, Green Bay and Wausau?