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Quilt Battings There are so many options for Quilt Battings. Choosing the right batting for a quilt is crucial to achieving the desired look, feel, and durability. Batting impacts the quilt’s warmth, texture, and overall finish. Here are some helpful tips to guide you in selecting the perfect batting for your quilt project: 1. Understand the Types of Quilt Battings Batting comes in various materials, each offering different characteristics. The most common types are: Needle…

Wholecloth Quilt – The End Results

By QuiltingWithTamara | 01/11/202204/10/2022 by QuiltingWithTamara

How do you finish a wholecloth quilt? Welcome to Quilting With Tamara! Finishing a wholecloth quilt involved completing all the quilting, trimming the edge, adding the binding, and washing carefully to remove the blue quilting lines. There are instances in which the blue stencil lines don’t wash out completely. The article below will see how I finished this two-year project. Wholecloth Quilt Adventure This post shows the results of my wholecloth quilting adventure. This was…

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What is Quilting Lingo?

By QuiltingWithTamara | 12/11/202103/03/2022 by QuiltingWithTamara

Quilting Lingo? – What is it?? Welcome to Quilting With Tamara. The longer you participate in this hobby, the more likely you’ve come across some quilting lingo – quilters’ terminology and abbreviations that can confuse the new quilter and even a seasoned quilter. New quilting lingo pops up all the time. I will share what I teach new quilters as well as seasoned quilters. I will also share what they teach me. It’s all about…

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Quilting Skills – Important?

By QuiltingWithTamara | 11/18/202103/03/2022 by QuiltingWithTamara

Welcome to Quilting With Tamara There is so much more to quilting than picking out a pattern. Each quilting skill builds upon the next and therefore important to learn the foundation skills. It takes practice and a willingness to learn a few basic techniques. Let’s throw some patience in there too! I continue to learn. Quilts, fabrics, and even quilting tools inspire me – well, almost any tool, as you will see. There are fundamental…

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Quilt Design Process – Part 2: Mystery Quilts

By QuiltingWithTamara | 11/05/202103/03/2022 by QuiltingWithTamara

Mystery Quilts were what got me started way back in the ’90s. Now for a bit more about my quilt design process and how I started designing quilts, specifically mystery quilts. It was a long and often bumpy road, but so worth the journey. I am showing my age, but I might as well celebrate it. I started my quilt business in 1999. That was when I felt that I could do something with my…

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Quilt Design Process – Part 1

By QuiltingWithTamara | 11/05/202103/03/2022 by QuiltingWithTamara

The Quilt Design Process is an evolution. I am working on a Block of the Month (slowly, very slowly) to start in January. I will show a part of the quilt design process that I go through in this post. This Block of the Month will be a bit different from the traditional ones. I haven’t decided if I will share the end product first or if it will be in a mystery format (which…

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What is a Wholecloth Quilt? My adventure into this type of quilting.

By QuiltingWithTamara | 10/17/202103/03/2022 by QuiltingWithTamara

What is a Wholecloth Quilt? A wholecloth quilt (whole cloth quilt) is a quilt that is created by using a solid piece of fabric as the top – instead of being pieced. The top is often made from a white or off-white fabric that can be pre-printed with a stencil that shows you where to quilt. The printed lines of the stencil wash out after the quilting is finished. Wholecloth Quilting isn’t for the faint of…

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Scrappy Wedding Ring Quilt

By QuiltingWithTamara | 10/16/202103/03/2022 by QuiltingWithTamara

Scraps by Judy Martin Scraps by Judy is one of my favorite books, specifically the pattern called Monet’s Wedding Ring. This variation on the Wedding Ring Quilt is created with all straight-line piecing – no curves. I used this pattern to create my oldest son and daughter-in-law’s scrappy wedding ring quilt. So much thought went into this quilt. Their house style, decor, and my son’s connection to my quilting all played a part – Scrappy…

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