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July 29, 2024
Kindred in Pattern Play by Connecting Threads from Busy Hands Quilts

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Today I am sharing the Kindred quilt pattern!  Kindred is a stash-busting modern fat quarter quilt design.  Pattern includes 5 sizes for you to work with - Baby, Throw, Twin XL, Queen, and King.

Kindred has been kitted in the baby size by Connecting Threads in their fabric collection, Pattern Play.  This quilt kit includes a pattern plus fabric for the quilt top and binding.  Backing fabric and binding are not included in this design.  Connecting Threads chose natural sherbet shades to make this cozy modern farmhouse blanket. 

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April 19, 2024
Cottage Love Throw Quilt in Daisy Fields! from Busy Hands Quilts

Today I am sharing this charming Cottage Love quilt with you in calming blue, teal, and gold colors.  The fabric collection is Daisy Fields by Riley Blake, and as you can see from the pictures, is perfect for Cottage Love!


Cottage Love is a quick and easy pattern with a scalloped edge created around the sides of the quilt.  The pattern includes many quilt sizes.

The Cottage Love quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.


The Cottage Love Quilt Pattern


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June 14, 2021
Custom Quilting Dover Lap Quilt! from Busy Hands Quilts


This beautiful Dover baby quilt made by Andrea was quilted in natural white thread in Wandering Roses, a digital design, on my Handi Quilter Fusion with ProStitcher.


Beautiful Fabric

This fabric collection is called Dover by Brenda Riddle for Moda Fabrics.  You can view the collection right here.




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June 7, 2021
Custom Quilting Woodland Wander Baby Quilt! from Busy Hands Quilts


This beautiful Woodland Wander baby quilt made by Andrea is quilted in natural white thread with Wandering Spiral, a digital design, on my Handi Quilter Fusion with ProStitcher.

Aren't all those tiny creatures just adorable?  You'll find the Woodland Wander fabric collection right here.



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April 13, 2021
Salt Water Taffy Throw Quilt - Custom Quilting from Busy Hands Quilts

Another recent custom quilting project is this beautiful Salt Water Taffy Throw quilt.


This fabric collection is From the Heart by Riley Blake.  You will find this fabric right here.  The quilt pattern is Salt Water Taffy by Villa Rose Designs, available right here.  The quilting design is a swirly heart design in white thread which perfectly complements the quilt heart-themed quilt.  This quilt was made by Andrea.



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April 7, 2021
Christmas Quilt - Custom Quilting! from Busy Hands Quilts

I recently custom quilted this beautiful Christmas quilt using an evergreen tree design with a star and moon for a special touch.


The fabric is Holly's Tree Farm with a white background.  This beautiful fabric collection is available right here.  The backing is a Kinderfolk print by Connecting Threads.  The quilt pattern is a simple sashed charm square design that lets the fabric shine.  


This quilt was made by Andrea.  She chose a striped fabric from the collection for the binding, one of my favorite ways to bind a quilt. :)



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March 9, 2021
Custom Quilting - Bartholomeow Reef Baby Quilt! from Busy Hands Quilts

This is a baby quilt I custom quilted for Andrea.


The pattern is a basic brick pattern.  This may have been made from a layer cake; I'm not sure.


Fabric is Bartholo-Meow Reef by Moda.  You'll find it right here.  It's the cutest collection of nautical-themed prints, perfect for a boy.  The backing is a beautiful wave print from the collection.


The quilting is a meandering anchor design design in medium blue thread, done on my Handi Quilter Fusion with ProStitcher.


And then there's that polka dot binding ... my fave print for binding ever!!


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March 2, 2021
Custom Quilting - Moda Color Weave Throw Quilt from Busy Hands Quilts

This beautiful quilt was custom quilted for Andrea.


The quilt pattern is Color Weave, a layer cake friendly pattern.  You'll find it right here.


Quilting is Woven Wind in white thread, completed on my Handi Quilter Fusion with ProStitcher.  I love the old-fashioned look this adds to the quilt, though I'm not sure I've ever seen an antique quilt with quilting like this!  That idea may be only floating around in my head.



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September 16, 2020
Kansas Red and White Throw Quilt in Just Red {Custom Quilting} from Busy Hands Quilts

Kansas Red and White Throw Quilt in Just Red, a custom quilting project by Busy Hands Quilts.


This is a quilt made by Andrea which I custom quilted for her in a new-to-me design.  Her request was something bubbly, so bubbly it is!


Executing this design on my longarm required a tutorial as I had never wrapped a design around so the next row is half dropped to the previous row.  Learning this technique has opened up a ton of new quilt designs that I will be able to use on my machine.

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September 2, 2020
Floating Squares Baby Quilt in Enchanted {Custom Quilting} from Busy Hands Quilts


This sweet baby quilt was made by Andrea, and I quilted it for her with a dense spiral design.  


See those sweet swans in the backing? 

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May 26, 2020
Custom Quilting Dorothy Wizard of Oz Baby Quilt from Busy Hands Quilts


This baby quilt in Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz fabrics was quilted with a windy design.


This quilt was made by Andrea.

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May 19, 2020
Custom Quilting Scrappy Throw Quilt from Busy Hands Quilts


This scrappy throw quilt was quilted with Feathered Roses.


This quilt was made by Nancy.

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May 12, 2020
Custom Quilting Caroline Baby Quilt from Busy Hands Quilts


This sweet Caroline baby quilt was quilted with Feathered Roses.  This could be the sweetest baby quilt ever!


This quilt was made by Andrea.

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March 24, 2020
Custom Quilting Little Red Riding Hood Baby Quilt! from Busy Hands Quilts


I so enjoyed custom quilting this Little Red Riding Hood baby quilt in the sweetest of hearts.  I've had this panto for awhile, and after seeing it stitched out, I can't believe I haven't used it sooner; it is beautiful!  You will definitely be seeing it again.  :)  This is a quilt of Andrea's, and I also bound it for her.  Saturday has become my go-to custom quilting day as I'm so busy during the week with quilt designing, pattern writing, and quilt-making.  I finish my chores as quickly as possible in order to get my ...

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March 17, 2020
Custom Quilting Neverland Baby Quilt! from Busy Hands Quilts


I custom quilted this Neverland baby quilt with a fun star and swirl panto.  Sometimes it's a challenge to think of which design to use on a quilt, but this was an easy choice for this Peter Pan-themed quilt.  This is a quilt of Andrea's, and I also bound it for her.  I've begun working on custom quilting on Saturdays after the chores are done, and it's a great incentive to bust them out!

Fabric is Neverland by Jill Howorth for Riley Blake Designs, available right here.

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March 10, 2020
Custom Quilting Seaside Baby Quilt! from Busy Hands Quilts


I quilted  this Seaside baby quilt with sailboats and waves.  It turned out so sweet!  This is a quilt of Andrea's, and I also bound it for her.  Quilting for clients has turned into my Saturday fun after the chores are done.  They get done quicker that way!

Fabric is Seaside by Tasha Noel for Riley Blake, available right here.


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December 29, 2019
Best of 2019 at Busy Hands Quilts from Busy Hands Quilts

This year was entirely different for me than any previous year as a quilter, so rather than featuring only the best of 2019, this is a brief history of all of 2019.

This year I made less quilts than last year and instead wrote a ton of quilt patterns.  So many, in fact, that I lost count and had to look it up myself, and when I saw the number I got so tired that I had to go take a nap.  No wonder I dropped off the blogging bandwagon this year - there was simply no time to do it ...

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October 8, 2019
Facebook 49719 Years Ago from Busy Hands Quilts


Do you see it?  Facebook existed 49719 years ago according to this post in my Facebook Group, Busy Hands Quilting.  Um, really?  In this screenshot, I covered over the poster's name and face because I don't think she wants us to know that she is over 49719 years old, but I'm okay if you know that about me.  :)

There's your funny for today.  I hope you have more!

You can join this apparently ancient Facebook group right here

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