Quilting Tips For Beginners! - Getting started with 3 Yard Quilts

[@pammyers1982]

Love Garden Portrait and Metamorphosis fabrics!

[@Ggmaquilts]

How nice and encouraging she is!

[@annaroseguthrie7335]

I love the idea of putting our critical voice in time out! This has become standard practice in my sewing room now. ❤️

[@beverlyreynolds5686]

Love the idea of putting that critical voice in time out!! ❤️ love all your tutorials. I have ALL your books

[@psum6537]

Love, Love, Love! So many quilts so little time!

[@FabricCafe]

So true! Thanks for joining us! Donna

[@GIIG21]

Great tutorials, every beginner should watch it. You take the mystery and fear out of your first projects, thank you!!!!!

[@FabricCafe]

Thanks! so glad you enjoyed! Donna

[@mareetorrumbarry5155]

Love that starting tip! Thanks Donna!

[@leahmarjorie]

What a lovely, helpful session with Donna! Hannah is great too!

[@FabricCafe]

Thank you Leah! Donna

[@ladycrafts1885]

I love it Donna! Put the critical voice in time out. Yessss! LOL

[@FabricCafe]

Yay! Glad it works! Donna

[@connieferrell4432]

Thank you Donna. This was great for not only new quilters but for handicapped people, too. I had a heart attack followed by seizures. Well, physically I’m just great, but the seizures left me with a few deficits getting my brain from words to doing the task. I’ve been a quilter for years but have lost the ability to do difficult quilts. This is so helpful Tom me. I appreciate you.

[@FabricCafe]

Hi Connie, I hope you continue to get get better and better! So glad it helped! Donna

[@conqueringmountscrapmorewi2509]

I just love that fabric! Thank you for sharing!

[@FabricCafe]

Breanda, thanks for watching! Donna

[@clombard7134]

Hi Donna! Thank you for the demonstration. That helped to understand the pattern directions. The fabrics are fabulous!

[@FabricCafe]

Thanks! Donna

[@susanharrell8902]

Love "critical voice in Time Out" !

[@debbiebraatz1919]

Great idea for a video. I hope it helps a lot of beginners.

[@FabricCafe]

Thanks Debbie! Donna

[@newbeequilter]

What an excellent idea for this quilt video - building on the basics! I loved how you went from showing how to make one block and then to use the steps in that block in the next pattern and also learn how to do another block. I could see this being a 6-8 week class in a local community's choice of learning different crafts. Now Donna, all you need to do is create a book that includes these very patterns; and yes, I'd name it, "Building on the Basics" or something with that theme. After sewing each quilt top, the sewist would be telling herself, "If I could make this quilt, I'll bet I could make the next one in the series." Oh yes, I could easily see a mother using a book like this in teaching her daughter or son how to make a quilt top. And with all the homeschooling going on these days, this would be such an enjoyable class that both the teacher and student would look forward to each day.

[@FabricCafe]

What a great title! I can tell you are a creative thinker! Thanks for sharing!

[@dorothyscott7617]

Loved this episode Donna, thanks so much. You made it easy peasy!

[@FabricCafe]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it! Donna

[@carolynmills513]

Very helpful. Must admit that I downloaded your free pattern and got lost in the jargon. Since I didn't want to make a mistake, I didn't do anything. I am a visual learner and reading directions, I overthink and start questioning myself. Thanks for this video of encouragement. I bought some fabric, but bought 1.25 yds as a little safety measure. Now to get started.

[@FabricCafe]

That is super! Keep me posted on how it goes! Donna

[@Pam-wy7wn]

Donna, this was wonderful! I have your books & many of your kits...but have only been brave enough to “cut into” one of them! This is incredibly helpful as I have wished there was an actual tutorial on the most simple quilts for us beginners. I truly appreciate the choice of subjects, the tutorial method, & the way you taught us to build on what we know. Thank you so very much!

[@FabricCafe]

Hi Pam, so glad you are enjoying the videos. Keep watching, we will share more and more great tips, tricks and tutorials! Donna

[@debbiedouglas2264]

Thank you, Donna!! You make this look so easy!

[@FabricCafe]

Thank you Debbie! so glad you could watch!

[@lisemonatalbot]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video.

[@FabricCafe]

Thanks Lise! Donna

[@catherinecharlwood4546]

Love how you’ve made it easy, great patterns for both old and new quilters!

[@FabricCafe]

Thank you Catherine! I love simplicity and style! Donna

[@ThomasOrndorff]

Thanks!

[@stitchpenniesofficial]

I’m working on Trellis right now and just finished Brick Street. I just love putting 3-yard quilts together!

[@FabricCafe]

Awesome! Donna

[@susanbradley3174]

Wahoo! I need all the help I can get.

[@joantilford5894]

St Mary Magdalen Catholic Church Brighton MI

[@sharonlukatch2711]

Thank you so much, Donna. This video was so helpful: it was just what I needed.

[@FabricCafe]

Thanks Sharon! Donna

[@kathleenmaxwell2562]

A great review.

[@elizabethscott8767]

I love 3 yard quilts but I also want to know where Donna got her blose and necklace...I love them.

[@FabricCafe]

Hi Elizabeth, thanks! I do love clothes! I love the band Jess and Jane and purchase from a couple of online shops. The neckless came from Ruthie's boutique in Lancaster, PA. Donna

[@ask604]

I appreciate you taking the time to explain the pattern and process. I purchased one of your pattern books. I hope you do more informative videos like this. And suggest which pattern book for beginners to start with. ❤️ 🪡 Edit: grammar

[@FabricCafe]

Thanks! So glad you enjoyed the video! Donna

[@emarie7591]

Goodness!!! I love the very first step. Critical voice in time out. LOL. I subscribed right after that!!

[@FabricCafe]

It's one of the most important steps! Trust that you will just get better and better! Glad you subscribed! Donna

[@angelikaminer8457]

Wow you took something that seemed overwhelming & made it simple. Than you.

[@FabricCafe]

So glad you enjoyed the video! Donna

[@runnergirlr3746]

This video was awesome! So helpful!

[@FabricCafe]

Thank you! Donna

[@pollyhopkins6906]

I would like to know how to order the checkmate pattern and the porch rail pattern and the 9 patch. Just dipping my toe in to quilting. These patterns look like I can learn with them. Polly Hopkins

[@FabricCafe]

You can order patterns as a download from www.etsy.com/shop/FabricCafe or order the patterns to be mailed to you at www.fabriccafe.com. Thanks for watching! Be sure to subscribe. Donna

[@pollyhopkins6906]

@@FabricCafe Thank you

[@carlindatrenholm6586]

Polly my favourite block is the nine patch. A simple first block. Deep breath and enjoy!

[@janicecroft2304]

No problem piecing the patchwork its the quilting that I find daunting. Do people just send it out to a longarmer?

[@FabricCafe]

Hi Janice, My daughter can free motion quilt like crazy! I, on the other hand, never seem to get the hang of it, so I spend my time doing what I like, piecing, and send the quilts out to a longarm quilter. However, there are many videos about free motion quilting and I'm fairly certain that putting my critical voices in time out, that with time I could learn. Thanks for watching! Donna

[@mirtaPR]

Great tip n videos , Do u have a tutorial or pattern that can b used to make a Trip around the world Quilt. I want to make 1 n U make ur Quilts all look so easy n I want to make one that doesn’t have complicated instructions many on UTube r complicated n not though

[@FabricCafe]

Thanks for watching! Trip Around the World is not a pattern I've done. Donna

[@Cassieboce]

Best video.

[@FabricCafe]

Glad you enjoyed! Donna

[@Tlea064]

Hi, what if your main fabric is very light.

[@MimisHugsAndStitches]

Such a great explanation. Thank you for sharing! I needed this help.

[@FabricCafe]

Glad you could join us! Donna

[@angelawallace803]

I cannot complete my purchase for the set of books on your site, I’m trying to pay by PayPal and it wants to send me back to your site but I’m not getting through unless I have to wait

[@FabricCafe]

You have to set up a password protective account on the Fabric Cafe site first to use PayPal so it know where to apply the funds.

[@liblot]

Are your fabrics designed by you?

[@FabricCafe]

Hi Ann, none of the fabrics shown in this video were designed by me. I've worked three lines of fabric for QT Fabrics and have shown several. we will be introducing my newest line in the next few weeks. The fabric wil be available in August of 2021. Donna

[@kaycure8629]

That first big strip....did you say 10 and a half inch wide? How do you get 4 srips from one yard of fabric?

[@cathrineferreira6728]

Three yard quilt top not a 3 yard quilt because the 3 yards does not include the backing .