Hand pieced quilts

Charm About You by Lucy Brennan is all about patchwork and quilting, sewing, embroidery and fabric. Featuring projects, patterns and free tutorials.

In our continuing series to explain the basics of hand piecing, today I wanted to really get down to the actually stitching!

Traveling and needlework can very easily go hand-in-hand, depending on the type of traveling you’re doing and the type of needlework you’re toting along. The travel and grab-and-go project that I’m working on this year (and last) is not actually an embroidery project. It’s a hand-pieced quilting project, using 3/4″ hexies. I first mentioned it ...

A Finished Quilt Finally an update! March 2020 came along and everything changed and this new "normal" is difficult to come to terms w...

Our Aurifil Designer of the Month block is by Laurie Simpson of Minick & Simpson is our designer. And Laurie has taken us "Back to Basics" with a hand pieced block. I learned to quilt by hand piecing and I tell you it worth every stitch I did on those first 10 quilts. You can hand piece anywhere and hand piecing gives you MAD SEWING SKILLS! it is not hard, just a running stitch. I was working on it during a July 4th Party (hey.. don't judge.. You are a quilter and you SO GET stitching at…

This post is part of the A Season by Hand series. Find the schedule here. Full details on sponsors and prizes here. ----- Our guest today is Erin of Why Not Sew. Last year Erin hosted a Hand Pieced Quilt Along, so she seemed the perfect candidate for our series. And her work is just

Find free English paper piecing patterns and English paper piecing templates using hexagon paper piecing along with many other creative shapes.

This post is part of the A Season by Hand series. Find the schedule here. Full details on sponsors and prizes here. ----- Our guest today is Erin of Why Not Sew. Last year Erin hosted a Hand Pieced Quilt Along, so she seemed the perfect candidate for our series. And her work is just

There are dozens of techniques for hand-quilting (aka the freehand stitching you use to decorate a surface), tacking together layers, and closing the edges of a project. Master the ins and outs of our favorites hand-quilting stitches to help create stunning quilted pieces. #marthastewart #crafts #sewing #diycrafts #diyideas #diygifts

Want to hand quilt and don't know where to start? These tips and tricks will give you what you need to be hand quilting in no time!