July Color Blocks Quilt -- "Either / Or" Machine Quilting Tutorial

I've been hiding in my air-conditioned sewing room this summer with plenty of time to machine quilt. I haven't asked myself, "How can I finish this quilt quickly?" lately since I have nothing but time to quilt.  This month's Color Block quilt, Either / Or, is custom quilted and used a lot of thread.  I enjoy the process and love the finished quilt!

I used white thread for all of the quilting and it looks great on both the orange and the blue blocks.

I quilted the four-patch blocks with ribbon candy, continuous curve, and swirls.

I quilted the Color Blocks quilts with continuous points (?) and ribbon candy.

I love the little stars in each block!

Join my FREE Color Blocks 2025 class to download the pattern and watch the machine quilting tutorial.

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Materials:

• Batt Scooters
• White 50-weight Konfetti cotton thread
• White 80-weight DecoBob polyester thread
• Ribbon Candy Stencil

Bowl of Cherries Cutie Quilt -- Custom Quilting Video

 I pulled more fabrics from my Garden Gatherings Fat Quarter Tower to piece this Bowl of Cherries Cutie Quilt.

This quilt turned out to be everything I wanted it to be and so much more!!!

Any quilting edge-to-edge quilting design would be sufficient to hold the layers of this quilt together, but I was in the mood for custom quilting.  

I started off by quilting curves using a machine quilting ruler.  I filmed a class for Annie's Attic that will teach you everything you need to know to start quilting with rulers on your home sewing machine.

I quilted ribbon candy between the curves and then stitched some feathers to fill each block.  I teach these feathers step-by-step in my Machine Quilted Feathers online class. 

I quilted the borders with more ribbon candy and more feathers!  

I show all of this quilting plus a trick for spacing feathers in a border in my latest YouTube video.  

Watch it now!

These are the first two Cutie Quilts I've made from the Garden Gatherings Fat Quarter Tower.

 

I still have more fabric left and will make more Cutie Quilts soon!

July Color Blocks Quilt -- Either / Or FREE PATTERN

 Got Scraps?  Sign up for my FREE 2025 Color Blocks Scrap Quilt Along for a year of scrappy baby quilt patterns and machine quilting tutorials.

July's quilt is a two-block quilt called Either / Or.  It takes very little fabric from stash and uses a lot of scrap 2 1/2" squares.  If you've been quilting along for any part of the last five years (can it really be five years!?!?!?), you have processed your scrap fabrics into 2 1/2" squares and can easily stitch this quilt together!

While I love all of my Color Block Quilts equally, I really Really REALLY love this one!  

What two colors will you choose for your quilt?  Go to the Color Blocks class, download the pattern and planning page, and get stitching!