Love this pattern, well written and easy to understand. I really love how she made spaces for notes. She has thorough easy to follow directions for each section. Fat Quarter Friendly This quilt pattern uses 2 1/2' strips and squares. I love this pattern! I really love how Melanie designed the pattern pages, the layout and how she writes her instructions. I love everything Melanie does and sells. Highly recommend.Ī beautiful pattern booklet in a cello package. Pattern instructions are well done, complete with pictures for us that need visuals. Love the modern twist on this quilt block. Looks a bit complicated for me at this point, but I'm adding it to my other beautiful paper quilt patterns! It's a wonderful pattern and I'll look forward to making it! Recommend this pattern for quilters with some experience as the half rectangle rectangles are a bit challenging but not that difficult if you follow the diagrams and tips. The directions are clear and easy to follow with embeded links to videos for tips and helpful info. The booklet is full page size which is great as it is easy to read and keep track of (I'm messy). Posted by Bobee McCaughey on Nov 28th 2023 You may sell quilts created from this pattern on a small scale as long as you credit Southern Charm Quilts as the pattern designer. Use #SugarBearQuilt for sharing on InstagramĬopyright - Pattern is for personal use only.Personalized quilt label especially for this quilt here.Find everything you need for Sugar Bear here.(unless otherwise noted).A pantograph quilting pattern, or panto, is typically used by longarm machine quilters or machine quilters using a frame. Pattern has lots of helpful links included (including methods for basting, quilting and binding) Pantographs are continuous line quilting pattern designs on a paper roll designed for use on longarm quilting machines.Video tutorials included for almost every step.Pattern includes template for Dresden blade, but if you prefer a. Skills Used: Half square triangles and double pointed Dresden, video tutorials included for both. Speed: Fairly quick once you move past the half-rectangle triangles Blogged about the quilts I made with this pattern here.
This quilt is made easier with the use of the Half Rectangle Triangle Ruler by Southern Charm Quilts, find it here.īlogged about the quilts I made with this pattern here. This way you can work through the quilt in your own time and still get the feeling of working on your quilt with me. Since I've written this as a quilt along, you'll notice at the bottom of most pages is a green box that will take you to a blog post with pictures, tips and tutorials for each block. Most of the fabric cutting will take with each block, though we will cut all the background prior to working on the blocks. Sugar Bear is also a sampler quilt (every block is unique) and meant to read and worked through as a quilt along. Instead of using half square triangles as the "claws", this pattern uses half rectangle triangles, giving it a more modern look. Feel free to re-blog, share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt.Sugar Bear is a spin on the traditional and popular bear claw block. PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and is intended for personal use only. So if you’re one of the many people who has trouble with Stippling or Meandering…you are NORMAL! Just move on… there are so many choices… Whereas instructions like: Stitch amoebas, don’t cross over, wiggle…are much more difficult to follow. Stitch a half circle…we can all follow these directions….(especially when there’s a photo to go with it!) Instructions like: Start on the bottom line, stitch straight up. The leafy meander is a pointy, curvy machine quilting design perfect for filling in the areas between quilt blocks. Here’s the reason: Our brain works fastest when we tell it what we SHOULD DO, not when we tell it what NOT to do… Whenever one of the little Tykes started running on the wet pavement (very dangerous)-the life guards were instructed to shout “WALK!”… They didn’t shout “DON’T RUN!”…
When my daughters were in high school, they were all life guards at our local swimming pool. Stick with me a minute…while I share a story… REALLY? No wonder so many beginners get frustrated and quit Free Motion Quilting! “Stitch a wiggling, meandering line that doesn’t cross itself.”.“Stippling is closely spaced, random quilting lines that do not cross and are gently curved.” template is easy to use with a ruler foot.I did a quick Google search of how to stipple and here are some of the descriptions and directions: Now, I know many of you like these stitches, and it’s nothing personal…it’s just that every beginner is told to “just stipple”… As I have mentioned many times, I want to Ban the Stipple quilting stitch and it’s larger cousin, the Meander stitch.