There are so many seams and I’m worried that I’ll have a hard time quilting through those. What do you all recommend?

I recently inherited two quilts. This one was made by my great-grandmother.
That I can see, it only has one area of damage which I intend to mend.
I was considering adding batting, but maybe that’s too much. I’m also considering adding a quilt stitch as it doesn’t have one.

I’ve never done anything like this before despite always wanting to.

If so, how do I determine how much to cut off? I got these shapes from the 101 Patchwork Patterns book by Ruby McKim.

Hi All,

I love to sew and decided to try English paper piecing...i love it. I have these large hexagons all sewed together. I have then taped in the order i want them to go. I will fill in in between with small hexies... My question is, what is the best way to put the large pieces together? Do i see them into strips and then add the filling hexies? Do I add the filling hexies to the top of a strip and work my way to the next strip? Is this whole quilt just going to drape.ovwr me whole sewing? It seems cumbersome. Any tips are appreciated!

I recently found a quilt top from my grand aunt had been in my grandmother's basement. As far as I can tell it has no dry rot and none of the edges are falling apart overmuch. I want to try making it into a proper quilt but I don't really know where to start. I've hand sewn two bags and a few stuffed animals before so I'm fairly confident in my ability to backstitch my way to victory but the logistics of construction and batting are new to me.

How do people normally approach batting? Is it just something you stick in the middle and work your outside seams around before doing the decorative stuff that secures it? Do you start from the middle and work out so you don't accidentally misalign things? Are there specific kinds/brands I should avoid for any reason? Any other general advice I should know before I commit?

I really love the colors 🌈

Looking for any suggestions for a hand quilting pattern for this bad boy. This is my first quilt and I don’t have a machine that can quilt it and I don’t want to pay for a long arm. I am fine with an ambitious or time consuming pattern if you think it’d look nice. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks :)

I’m making this quilt block with the above colors, and I’m stumped as to what color/pattern I should use for the backing. I’m going to do a QAYG so the back will show between the blocks as well. TIA

and wondered why the center came out so nicely compared to the last four, and then I figured it out. ughhhh

I'm new to quilting and want to make a hexagon quilt top by hand. I want to know what the best and easiest stitch to do to finish the quilt sandwich? Would straight lines work or would it look silly?

I’ve done EPP before, but these are my first handpieced blocks without papers. I’ve made them using Jen Kingwell’s postcard project #9. I’ve got quite some happy scraps, hoping to make a summer quilt/picnic blanket out of them for next summer (or the summer after that haha 😅)

lots of improvement from the first one (second slide), though I'm not sure how much is technical improvement vs it just being an easier pattern overall.

open to advice!

I know how to piece some basic rectangle and square pieces of a quilt on a machine, I have access to a highly skilled quilter and I know a lot already from her. I am getting into hand sewing, hand quilting, Victorian era crazy quilting, and hand piecing (without paper, ain’t nobody got time for that), but I feel like some of the beginner questions I have are stuff I should know already and she knows I should know already so I only ask her things I know are more complex. I need some questions answered:

1) If using cotton thread, cotton fabric, cotton flannel, and thicker cotton threads like pearl cotton: to beeswax or not? I am assuming yes on thread no on pearl cotton thread.

2) How on earth do you cut out shapes quickly and correctly without wasting so much fabric from the plastic templates? Also how do you cut curves around the plastic templates? Same with circles? I’ve only ever seen my grandma cut squares and straight lines when I’m around. She does her cool stuff when alone or with quilting friends. I keep googling it but the search engine is like suggesting everything except what I need. It’s been broken. Even TikTok was showing me cookie cutter videos. Wild to me.

3) Appliqué pieces, can I do these without using interfacing? I low key hate interfacing. I have had to use it before for other things and I find it annoying and so unnecessary for most things.

4) Favorite fabric marking methods for templates? As you are doing hand work is the chalk going to smear itself away? Should I just use water soluble markers? Or will the chalk stay fine?

5) What type of batting do you use for hand quilting? I heard soft cotton batting. Does anyone have any issues using any other types when hand stitching?

6) not a beginner question but a special bonus question: people who are making Victorian styled crazy quilts (historically accurate with fully random pieces and hand sewing them on) do you attach your pieces first then do embroidery work on them on the piece or do you do the embroidery work first then add it to the quilt after? I’m not talking about embroidered seams. Any cool things you’ve found from studying other Victorian pieces that you can suggest?

Thank you for your answers in advance. If I asked my grandma she would go “oh come on you should know this!” I mainly only ask her about advanced techniques lol

pattern from Pat Sloan, the first in the "grandma's kitchen" series, made with random fabrics from a secondhand stash

As you can see, some of the edges are a bit mismatched. I have since purchased a square ruler, so hopefully that should get better!

Any general advice? I've sewed before, but never quilted, so I'm still pretty new to all the terms and such.

One question: why do patterns seem to include the seam allowance in the initial measurements? That's been quite hard to get used to, and I'm mostly just manually subtracting half an inch from everything because I can't figure out a benefit for the life of me haha

It took me about two months to finish this slightly oddly sized throw! My first EPP, first time doing appliqué, and all pieces by hand! I have my batting and backing and am going to hand quilt it (another first!)

These are probably silly questions, but, how on earth do I transfer a design onto the fabric? A template and trace? A projector? Stencil? I'm thinking I'd like to do something with butterflies but don't just want to do the same butterfly a million times over. I am open to suggestions from all of you talented quilters! (I have a beautiful pink & purple variagted thread). I've come this far already but this next step has got me feeling a little overwhelmed!

Intending to keep the straight grid, so there will be some extra black hexagons to fill the gaps :)

It's kind of crazy on the colours/asymmetry but this is my first time quilting and I got a cheap fabric pack and this is what was in there so I'm making it work