Making blocks with gathered/ruched pieces.
 

I'd like to make a quilt that has pieces that have been gathered, so that it has a pillowy effect. Has anyone else ever done this?

~ Cindy

Do you mean biscuit/puff quilting?

Well, I don't know...I've never heard that term before. I'll have to go look that up...thanks!
~ Cindy

No, I'm not really referring to a biscuit quilt...they're just a little puffy. I'm thinking more of ruched pieces. I'd like to gather them up until they actually have folds in them.

~ Cindy

Something more like this: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/37788084343781162/

Time for you to design a new quilt. Only you can see what is in your minds eye so just give it a try. Be sure to take a picture and show the rest of us what you come up with. If you like what you come up, enjoy the praise from board members, if you are not crazy about what turns out a member just might have advice to make it happen. Have fun and go for it. A quilt titled Urban Cowgirl has gathered flowers all over it. The pattern is free and came from one of the fabric company's web sites, just can't remember which one.

Someone had made some blankets with ruffles, could this be it?http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t245351.html

I like the one on Pinterest. I have no idea how big you would cut the block. Don't care for the ruffled one.

I like the ruffled quilt. You did a nice job on that! I could see that idea using some gossamer silk fabric. It would be like a floating cloud.

~ Cindy

Perhaps you gather first, then cut.

~ Cindy

I saw a tutorial somewhere on this but i don't remember where. It seemed so easy but i can't attempt it until i figure out how to get one of my 4 rufflers to work on one of my 2 machines.

The trick was to ruffle 2 sides of each block and then cut the other sides to match. When you lay them out you alternate the directions of the squares so that a gathered side is against a straight side. But The size of the pieces of fabric depends on how much of a gather you want. I think there would have to be some sort of formula.

I wish i was better at explaining, i can sort of see how i would attempt it but i can't think of good words.

It's on my huge to do list but some other things recently got my attention and bumped it down on the list.

I saved a blog on my computer where a lady made one and she had great pictures and instructions but of course I can't find it.

take a look here, she did strips but you could adapt it to blocks. http://www.familyeverafterblog.com/2...ing-quilt.html

ok, found this one and they did blocks. http://www.modabakeshop.com/2012/11/...kle-quilt.html

This is very similar to the tutorial i couldn't find.
http://www.familyeverafterblog.com/2...ing-quilt.html

I plan to do it with a sheer fabric over bright solids instead of muslin.

Auntpiggylpn, that one is cute too!

I like this one. I was planning to do something like this with only a couple of the rows ruffled. On my list of things to do...:)

I saw a different tut but can not find it now. The blocks were about 6x6 with 1 inch side strips and 4 inches of the gathered fabric. Not all of the blocks in the quilt were done this way. Each block was pressed so they do look more flat. I think she did them with straight stitch regular foot then just pulled up the gathering.

You can do ruching by serging down each side. You have to adjust the differential feed so the fabric will gather. I think ruching is an heirloom technique. It adds a very feminine look to a project, and it's easy to do with a serger.

Yeah! Now that's what I'm talking about! It would be fun to use the ruffling attachment...finally. I suppose you could, "strip ruffle," your pieces.

Tartan, I like the idea of ruching flowers too.
~ Cindy

You could also gather down the center of the piece and do sort of a "butterfly" effect.

~ Cindy

Here is a picture of a pillow I made.... I ruffled the fabric and sewed it to a base to hold it to size I wanted. I am sure you could do this for blocks in a quilt. I have thought of doing this, just never got around to it.

I did this on a satin christening quilt. I did rouching strips as part of the border. simply gathered along each side of a strip and sewed with 1/2 " seams. I really liked the look. I have been meaning to try it with cotton, but so far have not made a quilt that would be right for.

I made a queen sized quilt for my mother that started with a center medallion made from the "Chantilly" pattern. This 38 X 38"center had encore embroidery, pin tucks, and borders that were touched......Since I do not do wall hangings or table toppers, I just added multiple borders to get the right size.....It was really beautiful........you just have to plan this, and plan your batting, so you do not have to quilt inside the routing......I did a stitch in the ditch on each side of the border.

Maybe you would like fabric origomi.

I saw one that had a ruched piece that ran the width of the quilt between the Main body of the quilt and a border. The piece was about 1 1/2 in width. It was an auction quilt made for the humane society, so it had cats and dogs on it. I'm sorry I don't know the name of the pattern.

Cindy, that picture you showed from Pinterest is really cool! It looks a little like a biscuit quilt and also somehow reminds me of a cathedral windows quilt. Thanks for posting this!

You can do a lot of decorative effects with hand stitching to created the folds or ruffles. It's been several months but I was watching a sewing show on PBS where they showed some of the techniques. The lady doing the demo sewed about a 6x6 square with what looked like a basket weave pattern on the front.
It may have been "It's Sew Easy" that it was on.

I think you would want to make your pieces oversize, sew your other pieces around the piece, then trim the excess off. If you cut to size before sewing the ruffled piece on, the stitches holding the ruffles may come undone and you would lose the effect.

Sorry, I don't remember much beyond the fact that it can be done.

BuzzinBumble, great signature.
Rodney

It would be interesting to do a "sampler quilt" that had all kinds of different techniques of fabric folding, puffing, origami, yo-yos, etc. Ahhhh......My little wheels are turning!

I saw another technique where they sewed two strips of contrasting fabric together, cut them in block length strips and then inserted them into the block with the strip twist a half turn. (I'd better find a pic of that. It's hard to explain.) Anyway, they put a few twisted strips into one block and it made a cool visual, as well as textural, tactile effect.

~ Cindy

I, too, remember seeing a ruffled patch in a quilt just a few days ago, but can't remember where.
So I'll try to tell you what seemed to stick in my mind.

Make a 9-patch, but cut the center square an inch wider. (If you cut eight squares 4 X 4, cut the center square 4 X 5.) Ruffle the two longer sides of the rectangle and finish the 9-patch with the ruffled square in the center.

Hope you can make sense of this. I was quite fascinated by that, and hope you can figure it out.

I have seen somewhere that there were 2 borders on a baby quilt the first one was just barely gathered and then the second one was not. It gave it a bit of dimentional look. Want to try it some time!

That looks like an unstuffed biscuit quilt, with the fullness tacked in the center to look like flowers. You could follow a biscuit quilt pattern and not stuff the squares, but tack them in the center like this photograph.

Apparently the pinterest quilt was made with clover Puff Quilting Clips: here's the blog post with the original pics that were on pinterest and where she talks about it: http://www.checkernewsletter.com/?p=1003

That's it! Thanks for that info. I've never heard of Puff Quilting Clips. I'll check it out.
~ Cindy

Good luck, Tropit! You certainly have original ideas. I'll be watching this site to see what you come up with!

I am just guessing, but are you referring to a ruched section? if that is what you want, then look up Martha Pullen. She makes beautiful quilts with ruching, but she calls it 'puffing' when she demonstrates it. This method gathers two try googling Martha Pullen/puffing.sides of a long piece, and then sews the edges to other fabric to create what she calls puffing. I don't know how to add a link on my tablet, but I just fried it and her site came right up.

I'd like to try a block with smocking--I think it would work much the same way:
http://mypatchwork.wordpress.com/201...4-patch-quilt/

Yes, I did and it turned out great. My gathered pieced was about 2-3 inches wide. I used it as my first border, then added a second wider border [ not gathered]. I used my gathering foot, went down one side, then down the other. I did it in strips and when I had to add them together for length you had to look hard for the seam.

There was a Fons & Porter segment where a woman did a "ruched" column for a baby quilt, using her serger. I thought it was a great idea. You can go on their website and do a search. and if I'm able to come across it again, I'll send it to you.

The quilt on the Fons & Porter Love of Quilting 2100 Series is called Periwinkles in Bloom.

I was in Barnes and Nobles looking at all the new quilt magazines and a ruched block quilt was in one of them. I can't remember which one though.

Check this out. One of these could be what you have in mind. http://mypatchwork.wordpress.com/200...-free-project/ Sorry I don't know how to post this web site correctly..... But I love what she does...Hope this helps.......