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Project Improv — Dining Room Empire - Cheryl Arkison

I almost never decide exactly what the quilt will end up as before I start. It is always an iterative process. Sometimes the settings were even quite ...

Improv Braided Quilt Block - Use your Scraps!

How do you start a quilt block using improvisation? · Start with any Small Scrap. Pick a scrap of any size. · Add a second Scrap to one side of ...

The REAL Improv Handbook Blog Tour! ((Give-Away!!))

Hundreds of quilters submitted “test quilts” for the book and the end result includes just 22. As I leave for Alaska today –I'm introducing you ...

WIP – Improv Quilting | ChezCraft Artisan Creations

I don't know if it is a new trend or just something that I have recently become aware of in magazines and online articles but I have been seeing ...

November 2020 Scrappy Improv Challenge - Persimon Dreams

For this months Scrap Quilt Challenge let's see your improv! They can be pieced, fused, hand stitched – whatever you want – just use your scraps ...

Improv Low Volume Quilting with Batiks

Starting an improv quilt is all about the color for me. With my stash pile and scrap bag strewn about, a vision comes together, and the fun begins. Initially my ...

In Love with Improv Piecing - The Quilt Patch by Tori

Moving into improv pattern design was the next step. Returning to my first improv experience, I stuck with log cabin blocks. I love how they ...

Quilting an Improv Quilt – Collaboration with Vicki Holloway

You know what I love best about starting my podcast Hello My Quilting Friends? Being able to meet other quilters and make new friends!

improv | This Thing - Lorrie Faith Cranor

I also recently read an article in the December 2012 Quilting Arts Magazine by Ann Brauer in which she explained her quilt-as-you-go approach ...

Improv Quilts Week, Day Four

This is the original quilt by Ms. Bennett (it's the only photo I have and it's rather small, I know). Don't you just love that skinny strip in ...

Scrappy Improv: Little Quilt Stories - KH Quilts

Shoot for squares. · Match dense to dense. · Don't square up your edges right away.

Intro to Improv Piecing - String & Story

If you want to use scraps, like the challenge of thinking on your feet, and don't want to cut your scraps down to the Scrap User's System, ...

improv piecing :: a beginners guide - The Barefoot Crafter

I'd cut exactly 1 fabric and started laying them out on the floor of my studio, when I looked at the fabric, then the plan, then the stack of ...

Create Your Own Improv Quilts by Rayna Gillman: A Review

Create Your Own Improv Quilts by Rayna Gillman is the perfect book for those of you looking to break out of the traditional piecing method.

How To Machine Quilt - Suzy Quilts

Start quilting in the middle of the quilt and work your way out. This will eliminate pleats and puckering that may form if you try to work from one side to the ...

Improv – Artquiltmaker Blog

I started this with TFQ during a visit to her in Seattle. Most of the fabrics were hers. We didn't finish it and I don't know where this quilt top ended up. I ...

Pure Improv with Denyse Schmidt–Mandy's Experience

Improv with an improv master? Perfect. I had been working on a detailed and painstaking mini quilt, and felt the need to do something different ...

Great Beginner/Improv Tutorial - Quiltingboard Forums

... getting beginning quilters into the craft, good approach to improv as well ... and ads you see may not be as relevant to you. You can ...

Improv Hand Quilting Workshop On Demand - Heidi Parkes

Students can work with an existing quilt top or a 'wholecloth' single piece of fabric. We cover basting, quilting with a tabletop and a heavy book to create ...

Spotlight: Paola Machetta, Improv Quilter - Create Whimsy

A quilt typically starts from random piecing of solids, embedding some simple shape. I repeat shapes (until I get a bit of a texture) and I try a starting point ...