World map quilt ideas

Travel back to a golden age of adventure and elegance, with this week’s Free Quilt Pattern, featuring a vintage map of the world. If you’ve got the Travel Bug, this beautiful 54″ x 66″ quilt will make an evocative wall … Continue reading →

I am super excited to introduce the newest Scrappy Appliqué pattern: GLOBE. GLOBE comes with 12 different templates: 4 different views of our planet (see views below), and each view comes in 3 different sizes (small, medium, large). So you can choose your favorite angle of the globe, and make a quilt in whatever size

Before Esther was born, Lawson and I saw this fun map fabric at Drygoods Designs in Seattle and had to get it, since he loves maps. I figured that it would make a good playmat/floor quilt for Esther and I meant to make it before she was born... which didn't quite happen, but I was happy to get it made a few months after she arrived and still in plenty of time for her to play on it. She seems to like it, wouldn't you say? Since I was sewing this with a newborn in the house, I kept it really…

Last night I actually found myself dreaming about making a T Shirt blanket. I am pretty sure T Shirt blankets are an introductory blanket sewing DIY that everyone should try at some point in their life. Why? Because they are super comfy, easy to make, and help preserve your favorite T Shirts from years gone […]

Art quilt wall hanging with pattern from Shannon Brinkley in her book Scrappy Bits Applique.

Have you guys seen the home sewn series happening over at Living With Punks? It’s a great little series all about sewing for the home. Well I made a quilt. Not just any quilt but a quilt for my map loving geography obsessed son. So I made a quilt of the world. (check out the […]

Laurie made this super cute quilt for her grandson, using a map panel from Sarah Federking called Little Explorers, from Studio E Fabrics. The border fabrics, Laurie found before from doing a my spy quilt, and they fit perfectly with this cute map panel.

Combining my love of maps and quilting, this quilt pattern was a total joy to design! Picked out some great fabrics, drew out some templates and off I went! This map was designed with a mercator projection of the world. Our World Patchwork Map Quilt measures 37" x 49". Pattern includes full sized reversed templates for raw edge applique along with clear instructions for finishing the quilt along with full color photos. Pattern is 15 pages long. The first photo shows the sample quilt before…

Combining my love of maps and quilting, this quilt pattern was a total joy to design! Picked out some great fabrics, drew out some templates and off I went! This map was designed with a mercator projection of the world. Our World Patchwork Map Quilt measures 37" x 49". Pattern includes full sized reversed templates for raw edge applique along with clear instructions for finishing the quilt along with full color photos. Pattern is 15 pages long. The first photo shows the sample quilt before…

A very good friend of mine is giving birth to her first child (a boy) at the end of this month. {A little background: I have known her + ...