anita211

I am on Craftsy and taking the BOM club there. I decided to make the quilt in plaids and the solids in the bundles. I have 34 fat quarters (my ex-husband wanted something made out of the fabric and kept buying the bundles). I have make a couple of the blocks, keeping in the same color range, even though they are different plaids, and surprisingly, they don't look bad at all using muslin as the background. Dunno... maybe I won't like it when I am done, but right now, I think I like...

barb55

Never thought of using a plaid, your is so pretty. I never see plaids in all cotton. Guess I need to start looking.

supergma

My GD made up plaids into the Kalidascope pattern. Used a multi-color Sulkey thread to quilt it. Really nice quilt.

jitkaau

Why not try Chicken Scratch?

QandE2010

Thanks ladies for all the suggestions. I'll certainly use them and I'm sure others will too. It makes me realize how much I love this board.

Gerrie

one of the first quilts I made is plaid homespun fabric. I used a turning twenty pattern. I am looking for pastel plaids to make a quilt called plaid pigs. It is an applique pattern fro With Needle and Thread.

EmiliasNana

Here's a quilt I made my daughter using the Quilt As You Go method. I cut the batting and the block the same size. The back was cut 1" larger on all 4 sides, in other words: 2" larger. Make your quilt sandwich with the batting in the middle and sew an "X" to stabilize. When you sew 2 of the sandwiched blocks together you take a 1" seam of the backing only, right sides together, so your raw edges are visible from the front. From the front, you finger press the seam open and double fold over the raw seams of the block. Top stitch along the folded edge as you would if you were binding it. Continue until an entire row is completed. Eventually you will sew the rows together and have one long seam to double fold and top stitch. Since I have a small domestic machine with just a 7" throat, this made quilting a large top very manageable. Hope this was clearer than mud, ha, ha.

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BettyB

Here is one that I did with plaids called twist and shout, I cant remember which quilt mag I saw it in

quilttiludrop

I haven't done it yet, but I have made several appliqued heart quilts with narrow sashing and corner squares. I thought plaids would make nice appliqued hearts, or for that matter other shapes of applique as well.

purplefiend

Here's my plaid and stripe quilts. I love working with these fabrics.