Quilt Like a Pro: 5 Ways to Mark and Organize Your Quilt Pattern

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[@megharmon2298]

I just wanted to say that my quilting has improved since listening to your pressing tips. My seams are much flatter! I have been quilting for awhile but I am much more pleased with my blocks. Thank you.

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

You are so welcome! Thanks so much for watching and thank you for your kind words!

[@KumaSews]

Love it! I use the friction heat removal pens for all my patterns! So easy!!!!

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!

[@barbolson8768]

Hi Mary. As always, you have such great tips !

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

You're welcome Barb! Thanks for watching!

[@cherylhughes8659]

Great tips, Mary.

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Thanks Cheryl!

[@helenstamatelatos9319]

Great tips to help us stay on track!

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Thanks for watching, Helen!

[@quiltinggurlquiltgal]

Great tips! I needed this 😊

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Glad it was helpful!

[@marilynstorey8813]

Thanks for the idea of using the Frexon Pen to mark the pattern as I do each step. As I cut pieces, I label and put in Ziplock bags. As the pattern instructions says for sewing I am only dealing with two bags at a time and then the third bag, etc. For repetitive blocks I stack my pieces in block form so my block may be 20 pieces deep, chain piece each step and lay right back down in the block. I also put a pin on the side I am supposed to sew.

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Lots of GREAT suggestions Marilyn! Thanks so much for sharing!

[@janemartin2789]

I’m a beginning quilter and want to thank you for your videos. I find them very helpful. Since you mentioned the heat erasable markers reappearing on fabric when cold (and I’d been hearing this on other quilting videos) I decided to do a test. I wrote on 2 pieces of the same fabric, put both in a baggie and put 1 in the fridge and 1 in the freezer. On the fabric in the fridge, 40 degrees F, the markings did not reappear. On the freezer fabric, 0 degrees F, they did come back but fainter than when originally marked. Good news, I reapplied heat to the freezer fabric and the marks disappeared.

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Thanks for watching!

[@shellyculver4239]

Thank you!

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching Shelly!

[@annemariekammler6991]

Great ideas. I just finished a pattern in a magazine that took me a while to make. I really could have used one of these methods to help keep my place. Thank you!

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

You're so welcome Annemarie! Thanks so much for watching!

[@brendalee8941]

I use a large post it note, like the 3X5, I place it under each step, so that I am not confused as to which step I am. When I finish step1, I write 1 om my post it note, then remove and place below the bext step.

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Also a great idea! Thanks so much for sharing Brenda!

[@marinaabad4995]

I make a copy of the pattern cutting instructions and steps to mark up instead of the orginal. This does not violate copyright law and if the author states no copies without author permission is erroneous. You can make a copy for personal use, not for sharing or selling. I only copy relevant pages to mark up, coss off, or whatever to my heart's content. Same for magazines, so it's not marked up or tearing out of pages.

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Thanks or sharing and thanks for watching!

[@proud2bktsmama]

I came to say the same thing! It hurts my soul to write on a pattern, but I don't mind crossing off things on a copy.

[@kathydavis5548]

I do the same thing. I make a copy and make notes on it as I go along. I keep them in a top loading protective holder along with the original pattern. Then store them in a binder. Works great.

[@joycescott6649]

I use one of the iron gone fabric pens to check off the steps on my pattern. When done you just iron the checks marks off the pattern.

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Yes - thes highlighters work the same way. I did find that the pens that I tried did leave some shadow behind on my pattern - which is why I prefer the highlighter. Thank for watching!

[@meacadwell]

I use the Frixion pens to mark my patterns (and iron them off), I also use different colors sticky notes I number and cut into strips to put on my pieces, but my favorite way is to just number the seam allowance with different colored regular pens on the back side of the pieces - these don't wipe off or iron off and you don't see them from the front.

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Thanks for sharing! Great ideas!

[@glendagrabowski450]

I’ve heard of, but haven’t tried yet, of putting the pattern page inside a protective sheet and using a dry erase marker to mark the steps as completed. Then it can be erased and reused.

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Sounds like a good idea! Thanks for sharing!

[@vickieaxell9518]

❤ T-shirt quilts with different block sizes into a queen quilt? How to make the top with sashing an fill-in blocks. Have you done this and how?

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Actually I have, Vickie! It was a twin size, but the squares were all different sizes. I framed each t-shirt square with the same fabric. Then, I actually positioned the squares in a "path" that went to the right and to the left and to the right, etc. , back and forth, with fabric rectangles connecting the blocks together. Then, I used my background fabric adding rectangles to make all of the "blocks" the same size. I finished by sewing them together in rows. I'll have to do a tutorial on it. It's kind of hard to explain. Send me an email [e-mail] and I'll send you a picture.

[@EAWit8852]

Did you make the video? ….just curious. Is like to get to that at some point

[@lydiaaguilar2020]

Where do you get the friction pens

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

I ordered them on Amazon.

[@leebair]

When I buy a pattern, I scan them into to computer so that I can have a fresh copy for the next time.

[@joyfulandmerryquilting]

Great idea! Thanks for sharing!