A Blue & White Quilt Pattern for Every Skill Level Using Men's Dress Shirts

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[@glynisreynolds446]

My quilt top is done 🎉 Oh Cathy what a surprise to get a shout out 😮 It’s made my day 🥳 I’ve even started creating leaders and enders to make another, this time using blue shirts, but the white squares aren’t plain white - they have a mainly white background with a tiny pattern (lots of men’s shirts have a tiny pattern) I can’t wait to see how this one turns out 🤔 Now I’m going to watch the video 👍🇬🇧

[@juliaraley9563]

I am so happy you responded, your name is beautiful, now I know how to spell it ❤ Post pics!!!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Hooray!! I'm so happy for you that it is done!

[@marybeth4002]

Thank you for bringing us beginners along who do not have all the machine piecing skills.... yet :) I too have an abundance of blue shirt fabric - good thing I like blue! Love Paul's creative visual of sewing pairs together - that made me chuckle out loud.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, MaryBeth and you're welcome! Paul's editing almost always makes me laugh, too!

[@user-nh8yu2mw2i]

I am now really fancying buying lots of blue shirts from my local op shop and cutting them all into 6 inch squares and seeing what I can do with just the shirts and some white fabric from a plain sheet, I visualize it and I think it would look fantastic...thanks for the inspiration Kathy !!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Valerie, I think that is a wonderful idea!! 🤓❤️ I heartily agree and I think using a white sheet is a GREAT way to go--lots of fabric, all the same type, and you can cut it to suit your needs! DO IT!! 🤩😊

[@kylierigby1953]

Oohh, I recognize the 2.5" squares😊. Love all the demos. ❤

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Right?! I was feeling the love when I realized I still had so many of them --I only had to cut the white squares!

[@laurajones7417]

Hi Cathy. I'm a beginner quilter and a social media introvert. I've been watching your videos from (almost) the beginning, but am only just now liking or posting anything... (I think it's called lurking? 🙃). I'm so inspired by your channel that I've decided to come out from behind the curtain. Not that I'm a wizard or anything. I just like the expression so much better than "out of the woodwork", don't you? I'd rather be thought a wizard than and insect! But I digress. Your channel is superior! Thank you! I'm in love with the idea of quilting with men's shirts and have already amassed a fairly hefty collection. (The value compared to quilt shops is addictive!) But I'm determined to finish my WIPs before cutting into one. (How is it that as a beginner I already have so many WIPs?) I also admire everything about your relaxed style, your humor, your melodic voice, your artistic expression, your love of order in the chaos, your excellent teaching that comes directly from your personal process, your sense of color, your husband's brillant editing.... Okay, maybe this is why I don't post. I don't know how to stop! 🤐 Is there a word limit on these things? Anyway, going now.... to scroll through your videos and "Like" each and every one, because I certainly have! Just slow on the draw as to the importance of these things.... I do have ONE BURNING QUESTION before I go: Do you pass on all the beautiful cotton shirts out there that contain 2% spandex? So hard to resist.... Can I use a fusible interfacting to stablize perhaps? Maybe you have a FAQs list somewhere? (Oops, that was three questions🙄). Looking forward to your next one! 💜💜💜

[@jennjennedington279]

I love you whole comment, Laura! I have used shirts with that tiny bit of spandex and if you are just careful and stitch slowly without any pulling, you will have success.

[@juliestafford5959]

So glad to hear that, Jennifer. I finally broke down and bought a gorgeous men's floral shirt that had that tad bit of spandex in it. I just couldn't pass it up, so I decided that it would just be my "experiment" shirt. Now I won't worry about using it!@@jennjennedington279

[@laurajones7417]

Thank you!!!! @@jennjennedington279

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Laura, first let me say that lurkers are 100% allowed, and just you being here and watching (even without liking or commenting) is wonderful and helpful and contributes to the community of viewers on my channel! 😊👍🏻 And thank you, before I forget, for watching all this time and being a faithful viewer--it's no small thing, to me. ❤️ I DO, in fact, like "out from behind the curtain" better than "out of the woodwork" for exactly the reason you named! Maybe you've just been patiently "waiting in the wings" for your exact time to come on stage--which was now! THANK YOU for your effusive praise--I'm humbled and honored. Truly. To answer your question, I sometimes pass on cotton/spandex and sometimes I just get them and use them as if they are 100% cotton! It really just depends--if it is just the slightest percentage (3 or less) or if I just LOVE the fabric (color or print) then I will get it! I 100% agree with Jennifer--don't pull or tug it when you sew--and if you pin, be careful not to stretch it as you pin. I have definitely used these fabrics and not had any problems at all. Oh and I wouldn't use fusible interfacing or stabilizer, besides the fact that it isn't needed, I think it would add unnecessary thickness. 🤓 Btw, thank you for joining the other commenters and adding your voice. It's a good one and I'm glad you're here! 🥰

[@bria2596]

What a great discussion to increase the visual success of a quilt. Thanks so much.

[@AuntGrace]

🎉love the Blue and White 🎉. I want to do the gingham one behind you.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Grace, you should!! The one behind me is what I made for the "Your First Quilt" series of videos---I still love it! ❤️ (and so easy!)

[@kimandrews9734]

I made a penny quilt with a whole fat quarter bundle of 25 fat quarters and white strips cut from yardage. I pinned every intersection of every strip and every row and every block. But very scrappy when I sewed strips together. Ended up being a queen size quilt. Took me several years because it was a fill in project between other project or when I got bored working on another.

[@EstrafaDC]

This is WILD!! I am JUST NOW in the midst of a blue and white quilt top.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

That's SO COOL! Blue and white quilts are just the bomb!

[@privateinfo1711]

My favorite quilt is a nine patch quilt. The sashing is white with a tan cornerstone. The nine patches has a light blue center. The rest of the pieces are scrappy but the whole quilt has a total blue look because I had so many blue shirts! I like the idea of making a blue and white quilt! While I watched this video, I thought Id really like to make a tan and beige quilt! Collecting shirts for a tan quilt will be a real challenge.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Your favorite quilt sounds SO lovely! A tan and beige quilt would be beautiful too---just an "ahhhh" of soft neutrals! And you might be surprised---I find tan shirts all the time! 🤓👍🏻 (ps I need a nickname, or your first name, or *something* because I just can't bring myself to respond to you as "private info!" 😂) But only if you want, of course. ❤️

[@katf009]

I’m slowly working on my start to finish hand pieced postage stamp quilt. It’s rainbow colors/white checkered. By the time I’m done it will have 1700+ 1 inch squares. It’s going on 2 years since I started it, probably take another 4 to finish it. Since I first started quilting 20+ years ago, I’ve always wanted to do a postage stamp. It took me 2 months to prep to get started, since I had none of the tools for hand piecing. Teaching myself to hand sew has been awesome.

[@jennjennedington279]

Hand piecing postage stamp???!!! Wowza

[@katf009]

@@jennjennedington279 yep. Figured what better way to get hand sewing experience then with 1700+ pieces. Practice makes beautiful. 🌺

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Kat, that is awesome!! I bet it will be absolutely stunning when it's done! And the fact that you are hand-piecing it is remarkable--go you!! 🤩🤓❤️

[@diannplatt-roberts8692]

Im always so excited to see what you are working on. I have been collecting plaid shirts, yes they are in abundance here in our second hand stores, for men's quilts for a prison ministry. Now even friends are giving me their plaids. Hubby put a plaid shirt on today, and i almost told him i could use it in my design.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Diann! I laughed at your comment--I can't tell you the number of times I've seen a shirt on a stranger, or Paul, or even put on one of my own (lol) and thought, "that would make a great fabric for quilting!" 😂❤️

[@annerankin1191]

I LOVE eensy, weensy piecing!!! I LOVE random! I have so much on the go, but see an eensy, weensy scrappy quilt in my future! I also LOVE the idea of using up all my scraps! XOX

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

The 2.5" and postage stamp size just cry out to be made with scraps, don't they!! If I didn't have so many other WIP's, I'd start on a scrappy postage stamp blue and white checkerboard quilt in earnest! ❤️

[@annerankin1191]

@@TheCatBirdQuilts my exact thought for me as well. 3 complicated quilts on the go right now….so a hard no (for right now! 😝)

[@annasalterations]

Love your channel. I love your red sweater. It looks so nice on you. Colors colors colors. Love them...

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Aww!! Thank you, Anna! ❤️

[@cstoddard7903]

Hi, love your channel!! I am a garment and quilt maker. My husband's name is Paul and purple is my neutral!!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Oh thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it--and how fun that you, too, are a quilter with a husband named Paul! I admire you garment-makers--that is not my gift!

[@monavance2125]

Just seeing the gingham quilt behind you makes me happy. I want to make own now. 😂 thank you for another great video.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Mona, you should make one! ❤️ It's the quilt I made for the "Your First Quilt" series of videos---it's so fun and easy and simple (but pretty!)

[@janiewilliams5803]

Good ideas! Thank you!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Janie! ❤️

[@Daniel5150You]

Thanks for another great one. Blue is my favorite color. And so on, and so on, and so on. 😂

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thanks, Daniel! And lol! Right? I laughed, too.

[@giselleyoung3248]

Great tip on what some of us call "Pressing to the Dark Side" to keep from shadowing behind the white squares! (Could have used a fun Star Wars photo bomb).😂

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thanks, Giselle, and yes, I have heard that too! Maybe I'll find a way to work it into some random video so we can incorporate Star Wars screen shots! 😂

[@sherryedwards5978]

I love blue and white quilts. Great video. Thanks.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Sherry! ❤️

[@shannoneaster9311]

❤Another beautiful, inspiring and informative video Cathy! Gotta love the classics. Blue and white quilts have always had a special place in my heart as well. My next two color project will be a red and white “red work” quilt. I wish my embroidery skills were better, but I supply they will be by the end of the project. This has been my “Mount Everest” project for decades, and I’ve always used my lack of embroidery skill as my excuse to postpone it. Next year I intend to begin climbing that “mountain”. I haven’t decided whether to go classic or Christmas themed yet, but in January I’ll begin to paw through my stash and nail down a direction. Wish me luck! 🤞🏼😄🤞🏼

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Shannon! ❤️ As red is my favorite color, you can imagine my interest as soon as I read about your red work quilt! (I LOVE them!) And yes, no doubt all that practice of doing will build your embroidery skills and that makes me so happy for you! 😊 All the luck as you plan it and start pulling fabrics (the fun part!!)

[@judyallhands3361]

i love blue and white quilts, most of my quilts have blue and white blocks, not by planning, just by chance.

[@Making-Beth-Gain]

That giant block sample with the cobalt and butterflies is my jam! I love it! Also blackberry jam is my real jam 😂🍞

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

I love it too--although I'm not sure what I'll do with that block now that I've made it. 😂 Also, same. Blackberry jam is my real jam as well. ❤️ (kindred spirits--in SO many ways!!) 🥰

[@karonwostenholme6533]

, I really enjoy watching your video's. You explain things so well. Thank you, I'm still collecting men's shirts, found some for £1.50 per XL mens shirt well happy x

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Karon!! ❤️

[@josephneu1775]

I love all your ‘ blues’. Thank you for your help. I just keep watching all your videos, and find the answers to my questions. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and a great Christmas with your family. 29:38

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Joseph! ❤️ So glad the videos are helpful for you and that you're finding answers to your questions! A happy Thanksgiving and merry Christmas to you as well!

[@svetlanasirlan9643]

Hi Cathy, amazing video, thank you ❤ Can't help thinking that the checkerboard pattern would be a great gift idea for a teenager. It could be sewn as a tetris or lego, or literally as a checkerboard to play chess. 😊

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Lana! And yes, I think you're right--what a fun idea!

[@silver_csmith]

These are all lovely Cathy! Thanks for sharing 🥰

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thanks, Charity!

[@valerievesper9216]

I LOVE blue and white quilts! I recently made a king size for our bed. Four patches in blues with white sashing and blue cornerstones. All the blocks finished at two inches. It’s very scrappy-about 40 fabrics, including 6-7 shirts. The colors ranged from almost gray to periwinkle to blue green and everything in between. Every shade of blue you can imagine. It was supposed to be a leaders and Enders project but I got sucked in and just went to town on it. 😂

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Oh Valerie, I bet that is STUNNING! 🤩 And I can totally see how you got sucked in---I know I would too! 😘

[@georgiadabinett6312]

Making me love Fridays....

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Aww, thanks, Georgia! 🥰

[@genawalter401]

I have been gathering various blue and white fabrics to do a blue and white quilt. I was inspired by the old blue and white china dishes that used to be so popular. Your video has now inspired me to get started on that quilt in the near future as it has been on the back burner for some time now!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Gena, that is so exciting! ❤️ I'm so happy that the video has inspired you to get started on your blue and white quilt! Maybe 2024 needs to be designated "The Year of Blue and White Quilts!"🤩💙🤍

[@sandraneville461]

Great video, love it!

[@barbaramatthews4735]

I'm glad that I found your channel. I have been thinking about using mens shirts for some time now and now I'm convinced it's a good idea. My local Goodwill has color tickets on clothes, and every Sunday a certain color is $0.99 each. Is have to look but I can over time collect lots of shirts cheap. I like your way of teaching. I there are lots of possibilities for different patterns.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Barbara! I'm glad you found my channel, too! ❤️ Thanks for watching and for your kind comment! I think if you get started using mens shirts you will enjoy it so much! 🤓👍🏻

[@terrytt2932]

I think mixing 3 or ? postage stamp large blocks into your large block rendition would make it very interesting, especially if the postage stamp was more low volume. A different place for the eye to stop. Blue would not be my personal first choice but would love a red and white!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Terry, that's an excellent idea! 🤓👍🏻

[@Cassandra-..-]

I’ve never, in my long three and a half years of quilting (lol), been tempted to make a postage stamp quilt. But your description of the loop method of doing the Around the World pattern really spoke to me, so I’m adding that to my “someday” list, now. You make everything accessible, Cathy, and I appreciate your well-crafted descriptions. You dial into everyone’s wavelink, I think.🧐 Also - glad your hard work is getting monetized. An actual APPLE commercial came up, so I made sure to let it play through!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Aww, thank you, Cassandra! ❤️ This comment means so much to me; I think if I could pick one goal (as if that were possible!) for the channel, it would be to make quilting accessible to everyone, so your word choice is especially humbling and pleasing to me. 🥰 Thanks about the channel monetization! It really helps us keep doing what we're doing here on the TCBQ and makes the time and effort count in a practical way for our family. 🤓👍🏻

[@Cassandra-..-]

@@TheCatBirdQuilts There is a LawTube content creator who had a stroke several months ago, and subscribers were asked to rewatch his videos and let the commercials play through so that his channel would remain active while he was in physical rehab. I’m happy to say his recovery was good, and he’s back at it. Conversely, Physics Girl Dianna got long Covid with all of the debilitating neurological symptoms, a month after her wedding, sadly, and she is not able to make videos. Through these experiences, I’ve learned more about KZbin and why it is important to support those whose channels you love. It’s a fickle platform. Your success is so wonderful!

[@Teresa-L.2024]

I think I would cut that large 4 patch into thirds both ways, turn the blocks and make a split 4-patch block. You'd still have large enough pieces of the butterflies that you don't lose the pattern. You can do split nine patch quilts too and get excellent scrappy look with a controlled set of colors. On the postage stamp quilt take the strips and sew the ends together to form a circle. Then randomly rip open one of the seams so the strip colors fall in a different order top to bottom. My favorite is the muted blue-grey chambray colors with the dark navy...very fresh country or beachy feel to that color way. You've given us all lots of inspiration.

[@maureenhayes8896]

How timely! I’ve been sewing up some remnant Kaffe fabrics into checkerboards for zip pouches and small pillows. As a skill experiment, I’ve been using the “webbing” method of joining lots of squares. There are some very good videos out, and it certainly is speedy. Some folks get good enough to skip pressing and nesting altogether. Very fun to try. Also, I too have some special fabrics that present best as large squares. And yes, those errant joints show. I’ve settled on using a lattice pattern instead, and I like the look of non-directional fabrics on point with the lattice. Thanks for your always-useful content.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thanks, Maureen! ❤️ The webbing method is SO cool---I don't think I'm brave enough to skip pressing and nesting, though!😱 But it would definitely be handy and quick to do webbing on a checkerboard quilt! 🤩

[@debbietrapp7757]

Good morning Cathy, Happy Friday! Love blue and white quilts, I purchased a quilt kit in blue and white that I am anxious to get started on after watching this video, lots of very helpful tips, thank you for sharing! 🥰

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Happy Friday, Debbie! ❤️ Now *I'm* anxious for you to start that quilt so you can show it in Show and Tell on Patreon! 🤩🤓🥰

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

I finally hit the thrift store and bought a few items. One is a blue plaid men's shirt. Think I may cut bias binding from it. I bought a 5X ladies shirt of the highest quality. Wow. I got so much yardage. Yet to cut the blue check and paisley ladies skirt. Mens shirts cost $5.99 at local Goodwill. Thanks.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Suzanna, isn't it crazy how much yardage is in a shirt?! It blows my mind EVERY time (and I use shirts ALL the TIME!) ❤️

[@lindaizzard1437]

Another interesting quilt also along similar lines is Four Patch Plus by Tiffany’s Quilting Life.

[@christinahall3318]

Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! First of all that is you! Secondly I love the blue and plaid quilt on the design wall. Although I love the blue and white, I find it most interesting that you chose the checkerboard pattern to talk about. I am currently working on a PINK & white checkerboard. I am using the strip piecing method which truly makes it so much easier! I want to make a red & white plaid next! Sew many WIPS! Sew little time! Love you sis! Great video once again!!!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Christina!! ❤️ I bet your pink and white checkerboard will be GORGEOUS!! And I don't know what it is, but checkerboard patterns are just calling me right now--sounds like calling you, too! 😘

[@christinahall3318]

@@TheCatBirdQuilts Yes! Checkerboard and gingham plaid (like your blue plaid quilt) just seem to be priority. I think it is because of the simplicity!

[@gisellejones1139]

Another great tutorial! I have some blue and white fabrics languishing in my stash so maybe 2024 will be the year .l really love the gingham behind you....always a treat😊

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Giselle!!❤️ We could decide (for ALL quilters---lol. ok maybe just for us) that 2024 is the year of the blue and white quilt! 😂 But for real though. 🤓🤩😘

[@wardettinger6091]

Blue and white is beautiful Victorian style GOAL for me king size and done on my domestic!

[@glynisreynolds446]

Oh I’m with you 😃 I LOVE sewing tiny pieces 😍 I so WANT to make the postage stamp version and I think I’d make lots of strip sets and mix them up 🤔😃 I might have to start ANOTHER WIP 🤣🤣🤣 And I don’t like pressing my seams open 😳 It would seem to add a weak point 🤔 Thank you so much for sharing your ideas 👍 and inspiring me again 😃 👏👏🇬🇧

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

You're welcome and yes, to pressing seams open! 😱👎🏻 But, it definitely does hide that shadowing! If you start a postage stamp version, I want you to send me photos in email. I mean it. 😘❤️

[@glynisreynolds446]

@@TheCatBirdQuilts and I know what you mean about those three squares 🤷‍♀️🤣🤣🇬🇧

[@glynisreynolds446]

Tried sending photo of a previous quilt I made using one blue shirt and scraps from my stash ages ago but it just bounced back/invalid email address so I’m obviously doing something wrong 🤷‍♀️

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

@@glynisreynolds446 try [e-mail] and see if that will work for you!

[@jmc-xp6ml]

I love blue & white, red & white, and pink& white.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

me too. Really any color and white, if I'm being thoughtful about it. (yellow and white, gray and white, green and white!) 😍

[@kylierigby1953]

Hehehe 😂. You say "jam". In Aus we say "cup of tea".😂

[@karenfulkerson5961]

Another great video! I am a garment and a quilt maker. I love the blues and whites together as well as a checker board quilt pattern, because random is not my “jam” 😂( I like Raspberry)! I am very methodical when making a scrappy quilt 🤪, I wonder 💭 sometimes…is this even scrappy? 😂 Your quilts are beautiful!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Karen!❤️ I too, am very methodical and I don't think my scrappy quilts look scrappy either!😂

[@nicolebeauchamp7622]

Another great video. Thank you. Oh the ideas and churning. What are your plans for the sample pieces you made?

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Nicole! Not sure about the sample pieces---do you have some ideas? ;)

[@nicolebeauchamp7622]

@@TheCatBirdQuilts personally I like to use orphan blocks in the back of quilts. Perhaps the back of your next blue quilt.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

@@nicolebeauchamp7622 GREAT idea! 🤓😘👍🏻

[@fionawhiteside5154]

I wish we in the UK had access to as many mens shirts, especially in large sizes, as you do in the US. But I have kept all my sons' and dad's shirts for future quilt projects. By the way, Cathy, I love that gingham quilt hanging up behind you. ❤ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Fiona, I wish you had that too, although that would mean that you all would have the overbuying and excess that we have here in the US, and I promise you that it is not *really* what you want. You are so smart for keeping the shirts from the men in your life--I can think of a few my husband's shirts from years past that would have made amazing quilting fabric! Alas. And thank you--it is the quilt from the "Your First Quilt" video series I did last year! ❤️🤓

[@laurenebluder7037]

Ummmm, you forgot BLUEberry jam. Lol! 😂😂😂😂😂😂❤😘

[@jennjennedington279]

I thought the same thing!!!!

[@karenneiman856]

Homemade raspberry or peach all the way!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

😂 I did!! That would have been so great!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Ummm.....YUM! 😋 Now I want homemade peach jam! (so next time if you're making some to share....)

[@katharinemichie2178]

It could be interesting to mix large one fabric blocks, with postage stamp blocks. The tiny squares would look almost like a print fabric

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Oh that would be interesting!! 🤓👍🏻

[@elenabello138]

I'm like you about random ! As I like order too, when I do random It must be perfectly random 😂

[@jennjennedington279]

Oh my gosh yes that is the term I have been looking for: PERFECTLY RANDOM. It was my aim to do a “pull from the bag random” And thought that since I had a harmonious value of colors and low volume that I could actually do it! Reach and sew. Nope. I fussed and fussed with it. And thus it is not finished. I took all the “easy” out of the process. But I’ll like it.

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Elena--YES! Perfectly random! 😂 I wish it was achievable!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

@jennjennedington279 and THAT is why I don't do random---I have the EXACT same experience. Trying to do flippant random steals my joy. Truly. It is honestly more joy-inducing to just put the dang pieces where I want them to go! 😂

[@jacquelinespivey2413]

❤

[@carolinesmercantile4290]

Thank you for sharing these great blue and whites! I'd love to know how you would go about 'quilting' these. All I really know how to do is either a stitch-in--the-ditch or a wave with my walking foot. What are the various ways to quilt the 1" squares quilt without taking away from the beauty and calmness that these provide? Thanks!

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Caroline, I'll be honest with you, the actual "quilting" part is my biggest weakness---there are others with so much more experience and skill and "eyes" for quilting than me! But I will say, I did a free-motion quilting on a postage stamp quilt (it was a baby quilt, so I could manage it) and I simply did cursive "e's" (also known as loops) with each "e" in each tiny square. And then on the next row, I did them upside down---and it made a really lovely pattern that was scaled properly for the size and didn't detract from the tiny piecing. If you follow me on IG, I think I have a photo of it! Or you can watch this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmXafWN5nZiBaZYsi=Kc53CVJoniT2xg33 where I talk about that baby quilt and the quilting!

[@vanillayogurt5650]

A bargello quilt would be pretty in two tone…

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

OOOooooohhhhhh!!! 🤩😍🤓

[@dianafaulkner6979]

I love your videos ❣️I watch as many as I can, have you done any on Bargello?

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

Thank you, Diana! ❤️ Not yet!

[@jmc-xp6ml]

Question: Do you only use men’s cotton shirts?

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

For the most part, yes. If I find a cotton-poly blend that I just LOVE, sometimes I'll go ahead and get it, but once I start using it, I remember why I don't really like them for quilting! 😂

[@laurenebluder7037]

Ugh!! I have to wait 100 minutes? Lol 😂

[@TheCatBirdQuilts]

LOL!