Elephant Quilt

Prepare your backing material so that it's a few inches larger than your quilt top (front). I pre-washed my backing. Often I don't ...

Borders: I'll list what I did for borders, but this is an area where you might want to change things up. First border (inside) is mad...

I finished the last bit of satin stitching on the panel. Next step will be to trim it down to the size I need to begin piecing the rest of ...

Now we come to the fun part – putting the quilt panel together.   Secure the master poster to a worktable or the floor.   I have a vin...

Finally a project that uses all those decorative stitches on my sewing machine! If your machine doesn't have them then a simple zigzag ...

Pick a component part to work on and get it's paper section that was cut from the colored poster, such as the ear shown below.  O...

Panel background fabric:   Normally white or a white-on-white fabric. I highly recommend that you prewash the 1 ½ yard of background mate...