Every quilt has a story and the idea of Underground Railroad quilts is that they served as a coded map to help enslaved people escape to freedom, though many historians dispute the extent of this practice. Patterns like the Monkey Wrench signaled it was time to gather tools, while Log Cabin quilts with a yellow or red center indicated a safe house was nearby. Other patterns allegedly communicated different instructions, such as following bear tracks (Bear’s Paw) or using a zigzag path to avoid s

Here I am cutting up all the pieces for my new version of my soon to be released Lake Garden quilt. The acrylic templates make cutting the curves on the Drunkard’s Path rectangles super quick. I like to use a 28mm rotary cutter as the smaller size can get around the curve easily. The prints and solids are from @artgalleryfabrics, the check is a Yuwa and the spot is from @robertkaufman The Lake Garden pattern will be available very soon and the pattern is fat quarter friendly and comes with instr

82K views · 1.1K reactions | Tube quilting is a quick technique that produces results in a short time. Both blocks are made of half square triangles. One of them uses scrap fabrics and the other coordinated fabrics. Full tutorial: https://mypatchwork.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/2-strip-blocks-using-tube-quilting-techniques-video-tutorial FOLLOW my blog to get all video tutorials in your inbox. | TeresaDownUnder | Facebook