This is a sampler quilt that explores texture in fabric.
The quilt has 25 blocks. Each block is made out of a centre 5 inch square featuring some fabric texture such as pin tucks, smocking, shirring and the like. Then a 3 1/2 wide border encloses each centre square.
The colour scheme is red and white/cream alternating reds and white/cream for the centre square and border.
Some of the textures show better on plain colours than on heavily patterned fabric.
Block type: log cabin.
Block size: 11 inches.
Colour scheme: reds and neutrals.
Quilt size: The finished quilt is 52 1/2 x 52 1/2 inches.
The quilt is made with fabric scraps and therefore the tutorial does not include exact fabric needs.
Block tutorials
Block 1: Pin tucks
Block 2: Diamond pin tucks
Block 3: Double controlled pleats
Block 4: Doubled controlled pleats with ripple effect
Block 5: Centered tucks with bow ties
Block 6: Gathered strip
Block 7: Cross pin tucks
Block 8: Undulating tucks
Block 9: Cross shirring
Block 10: Prairie points pinwheel
Block 11: Star gathering
Block 12: Puff gathering
Block 13: Lattice smocking
Block 14: Cluster tucks
Block 15: Diamond smocking
Block 16: Smocked tucks
Block 17: Pleated peek a boo
Block 18: Gathered double edged ruffles
Block 19: Smocked diamonds and puff gathering
Block 20: Origami flower
Block 21: Lozenge smocking
Block 22: Origami pinwheel
Block 23: Lotus flower smocking
Block 24: Fabric origami
Block 25: Echidna block
Quilt layout
The diagram below shows how I arranged the blocks trying to distribute techniques evenly.
To assemble follow the diagram and stitch blocks on rows and then stitch rows together again.
Iron to the darker side.
Add your photos to the Textured quilt blocks Flickr pool.
Oh, my!!! I sooo want to give all of these a try! I want to start right away, but don’t think I have time, maybe just one square a week might be a nice goal. Wonderful inspiration! Thank you.
I hope that you are going to do a tutorial on these. They are awesome!
Click on the link below each photo for a tutorial
Loved the concept and the examples are inspiring… Want to try it yesterday if not sooner.
Wonderful!! Thanks for the link.
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Thank you for all of these blocks. I have an outreach program for ladies who have all kinds of issues and with your blocks these will work for them and not overwhelm them. Of course I am not going to tell them at first but as their stash grows it will give them the confidence to finish it.
Thank you again for your work.
Diannah, I’m glad you can use my tutorials in your outrexh program.
I just found this site. I am definitely going to make this sampler. I am fasinated by all the techniques. Thank you so much for sharing.
It´s amazing
Hi Tersa:
I started the quilt with one block a week (still not telling the ladies what it is for) and had such a wonderful experience. The ladies were asked to pick out colours that they liked and each week , put the finished block in the drawer and add to it. This is not an easy task due the multiple health and emotional issues. I can’t wait to see the finished piece. Teresa, we will send you the pics of the finished project.
Thanks again for your wonderful program.
OMG! I just saw the prairie points on a styrofoam ball. I am so excited to have my ladies in my group try this one.
Thank you very much for your projects. The only thing I can say is God Bless and may your ideas follow freely through your heart.
Thanks again
Diannah
Wow! I just found your blog today. What a FABULOUS QUILT! It must have been so much fun to make. Thank you for offering the tutorials.
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I also just found this quilt and am very excited to try it. I have been quilting for years but the past 4 years have been hard for me because of health issues. Now that I am finally starting to feel better I have been looking for something to do. I love the two color plan, what do you think it would look like scrappy? I don’t think as good as the two colors……..
Thank you again.
I have just started this quilt and have chosen to use only solids in as many colors and I already have or can find during the process. So far so good. Thanks for sharing this quilt and the tutorials.
This is great Barbara. I must admit that after I started the project I realised that using solids would have shown the textures better. Don’t forget to show us some pictures at the Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/2086081@N20/pool/
Love your ideas
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These are awesome, thanks for the tutorials. The fabric origami is actually REALLY simple, I just used an embroidery scissor to help me shape the folds (a dpn should work even better). I had some troubles with the bulk of it thuogh, so when attaching the border, I think it might be easier making the border edges a lot larger and use a zipper foot to attach them, then marking the edges where it needs trimming and cutting it from the outside, so you’ll never have to fight the bulk of the center piece.
What is the best way to save instructions without having to print a hundred pages? Can I save the whole thing on my computer and come back to it later? I love the texture but will need to do it a bit at a time.
You can bookmark the page and go back to refer to it every time or you could copy the tutorial and paste it into a word document maybe if you want to have a copy of it offline. I’m not going to take the tutorials off so probably bookmarking the page is the best option.
Victoria, save it to your desk top and then you can open it and print only the pages you need, a few at a time.
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That’s. So. Cool.
Wow.
My daughter just sent over a link to your amazing quilt!! I am in awe. I am inspired. And I must say Thank you!
Being a dabbler at heart, creating a quilt that is the same from block to block will never happen. But this quilt seriously appeals to me! A multiple learning experience and a dabbler’s enchantment!
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All your work is inspiring and the instructions easy to follow-keep on sewing and finding new avenues for us to explore -sue
This is a wonderful tutorial, thank you so very much for taking the time and effort to make it and share it. I was positively stunned when I found it. I’d never even thought of using textured squares in a quilt. Your quilt is lovely.
Wow! I did a quick glance at the tutorials and I cannot wait to start. Just a question for you. It looks like you used a regular foot for the tutorials looked at. I have some special feet like a pintuck foot but really have no idea how to use them…do you ever use special feet or just the regular sewing machine foot
Hi Eileen. My machine came with lots of feet but I tend to use just a few and for the tutorials I did use a regular foot, yes.