Alphabet quilt

Want to PERSONALIZE baby quilts, wedding gifts, graduation gifts, and the like? This pattern will teach you how to make a PIECED, not appliquéd alphabet . You are one click away from PERSONALIZING all your quilts! All letters in this pattern are upper case letters. They are 5" tall. Most are 3" wide. The exceptions are: M, Q, W, X, and Z, which are 4" wide before framing. All letters will be constructed in vertical columns. Then each letter will be framed in background fabric so that the…

Learn to use the One Patch Quilt in Electric Quilt 8 as graph paper to design an entire alphabet. And then the process to transfer your design to individual blocks for each letter.

Use these quilting templates to spell out whatever phrases or words you'd like on your quilt top!

Alphabet quilt mocked up in Andover fabrics Atomic by Libs Elliott. This pattern uses 8 fat quarters in shades of different colors to create a folded ribbon effect. Ribbon Letters pattern by Patch and Dot.

I recently had the MOST FUN making a mini quilt with words on it, so I just had to share it, along with a list of great pattern and book options for sewing your own alphabet letter quilt blocks.

Today I'm going to show you how to make your own set of Alphabet Squares. I made these last year to help Emerson learn her letters. We used them almost every week for all sorts of activities. They are super durable and have held up really well. Here's what you will need: 1-2 yards of s

Photo taken in 1912 from the Lund family in Taos, New Mexico. Arizona's star was the 48th, added in February, 1912. New Mexico was added a month earlier in January. We've been looking at quilts date-inscribed 1912 trying to get an idea of what was happening when Marie Webster began publishing her "New Quilts," modern applique designs. Quilters working in 1912 had many published patterns for inspiration, among them the Ladies' Art Company catalog from St. Louis, which featured a popular…

This is the panel that drew me away from paper crafting and back into my sewing space. For a long time I’ve wanted to make an alphabet quilt. But I didn’t want to make the letters and I wanted them to look artsy. When I bought this panel, I didn’t know it was a Marcia Derse design. No wonder I love this panel. (Not to worry, all those prewash wrinkles will disappear as I work with the panel) I didn’t need to worry about wonky with this panel. The alphabet is intentionally somewhat wonky so…