Progress is very slow for me on coming up with simpler ideas for making Bible quilts. I am experimenting with SetaColor textile paints and hope this will offer new options for my quilt blocks. But I’m still a beginner with painting.
I discovered some really nice work with crayon colored quilts and wanted to share this link with you: https://www.black-cat-creations.com/coloring-tips.htm
She isn’t necessarily into Bible but her techniques are good. She also uses embroidery on her quilt blocks.
With the hope of more Bible coloring pages for our Bible Quilts blog running through my mind, I was thrilled to stumble across quilter Margie Campbell post today. She was sharing instructions with a quilting group on LinkedIn about how to create fabric printer sheets that can be passed through a computer printer to make quilt block pictures.
I can think of several ways this technique could be useful in making Bible quilts.
Margie offered to share her blog post which explains how she makes her own printer fabric using cotton fabric, freezer paper, and two liquids – Bubble Jet Set 2000 and Bubble Jet Set Rinse. Click here to read her blog post.
A big thank you to Margie for sharing this information with us.
I discovered the perfect quilting course for me as I explore making Bible quilts, especially for the quilts that become illustrations for my upcoming Bible storybooks. Perhaps some of my reader/followers will be interested in signing up as well. Here is the link: http://www.craftsy.com/class/Art-Quilting-101-Design-Basics/40;jsessionid=B0E3505C129EE9F4AEBAA26CDD7C6279.rush
I am making hexagon quilts because the theme of my Bible storybooks is based on the honeycomb. I do NOT recommend this for beginners. I am getting ready to cut out sashing and sew my hexagon quilt together using the appliqued hexagon shaped pieces I stitched as illustrations for my book The Creation. Now I am biting my fingernails figuratively speaking and looking for tutorials on how to sew a hexagon quilt together. In the event others will wish to try this approach to making Bible quilts, I want to post the tutorials and helps I find here as I work my way through putting this quilt together. I will continue to add to and revise this post as I go along. I hope if any of my readers find this and have suggestions they will post them as comments.
Here is a tutorial for putting together a hexagon quilt. My first reaction to this is that I can’t use it because I am adding sashing to my quilt, but I haven’t found any directions for a sashed hexagon quilt yet so I’ll save it here. I may add my sashing differently and still use this approach. Kay Wood’s tutorial on making a hexagon quilt. She does offer a unique way to cut out hexagon pieces that could come in handy in creating future hexagon quilt background pieces.
Here is another tutorial on doing set in seams. It includes tips on sashing a quilt with points, but it is not a hexagon quilt. American Quilters Magazine – Set-in Seams .
I came across another tutorial for a way to assemble the hexagon pieces by hand. It would be time consuming, but may be easier to manage. Quilt Pattern Magazine.com – English Paper Piecing Basics.