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Types of Quilts
Album Quilts are made by combining various individual blocks made by
different persons. Each quilter will give her block after signing it. These quilts are
mainly made to commemorate some special occasion. Album blocks can be
either pieced or appliquéd or both. Until recently, quilters used embroidery or
India ink to sign their blocks. Nowadays, special markers are available for this
purpose.
Amish Quilt- Quilts made in the Amish style usually are made with solid
materials in deep colors.
Baltimore Album is a style of an album quilt which was made in Eastern
Maryland between 1844 and 1855. It uses embroidery blocks and ornate
appliqué.
Bargello- This type of quilt is mainly designed in a rising or falling pattern with
off-set squares of color. For making this, you will need to sew strips of different
fabrics together. Cut them into smaller segments and then piece them together in
such a manner that you will achieve geometric patterns or waves in the design.
Broderie perse- In this French method, you will cut a printed motif which can
be a flower, animal or other figure from the fabric. After this, you appliqué it onto
a plain background.
Cathedral Window Quilts use quilt blocks that create a window showing a
different fabric underneath.
Celtic Quilting- This type of quilting is very complicated. It is made with lots of
very small and bias cut strips to form Celtic designs.
Channel Quilting- These are stitchings on the completed quilt that run in
parallel lines. These lines are mostly spaced and can be vertical, horizontal or
diagonal.
Charm Quilt- This is a type of quilt that is made up of various blocks of the
same size and shape, but with different fabrics. These blocks are common in
fabric swaps and are generally small (2" is a common size).
Crazy Quilt- This type of quilting was very popular during the Victorian era,
when young girls used to display their embroidery and quilting skills by combining
these “crazy” pieces. To make this, you will sew the leftovers of different fabrics
to a background fabric using decorative stitches for joining the seams and
embroidery for decorating. Most of the pattern pieces are not regular in shape.
Velvets and silks are often used in this process.
Echo Quilting- In this technique of quilting, the stitches draw parallel to the
existing motif or piece on the quilt.
English Paper Piecing- In this type of hand quilting, you will use paper
templates to enable movement under the seam allowances. Usually, you will
need to leave the papers in the quilt top until all the pieces are combined.
Eye Spy Quilt- These quilts are mainly designed to make memory game style
quilts for children. In this kind of quilt, the novelty prints are cut selectively and
combined randomly in pairs. Squares, triangles or hexagons are common block
styles.
Filler Quilting- You will use either machine or hand quilting in this method of
filling large and open spaces on a quilt top, which is mostly done in a cross hatch
pattern.
Free Motion Quilting- In this machine technique, you will need to lower or
cover the feed dogs. It will enable you to guide the quilt through the sewing
machine completely, in whatever manner you wish.
Foundation Piecing- This is the method of gathering a quilt block to a
foundation of muslin and other fabrics by sewing pieces.
Foundation Paper Piecing- Foundation paper piecing is a method of using
the already drawn pattern on a piece of paper for guidance in constructing a quilt
block. Using this drawn pattern as a guide, you may sew the fabric pieces right
onto the paper. This is a very good method of piecing complex and small blocks.
Freezer Paper Appliqué- In this method of appliqué, you will draw a piece
onto the dull side of freezer paper. After this, iron onto the wrong side of the
fabric and then ease the seam allowance using the freezer paper as a guide.
Now, remove the paper when you find the piece is sewn either to its background
foundation or neighbor.
Friendship Quilt- Various individual blocks made by different persons are
combined together to make a friendship quilt. Each quilter will sign and give
his/her block. This is similar to an album quilt.
Hand Quilting- In this method of quilting, you will apply a quilting pattern with
the help of templates and chalk pencils to the top of the quilt. In order to hold the
sandwich taut during hand quilting, insert the quilt sandwich into a frame.
Hawaiian Appliqué- Native Hawaiian quilters developed this method in which
big floral shapes and solid colored pieces are stitched onto a white background.
Lap Quilting- In this method, you will quilt one block at one time and then
assemble the finish quilt from those pre-quilted squares in order to complete all
three layers. Either quilt the squares in small lap frames or hold them in your
hands instead of using big quilting frame.
Log Cabin Block- These blocks start in the center and are gradually
surrounded by long and narrow strips or “logs.” You will need to sew these
moving clockwise from the center. These strips usually become darker as they
move to the outer edge of the quilt. Courthouse steps and pineapple block are
two different log cabin blocks.
Long Arm Quilting is a kind of machine quilting which is done with the help
of a long arm machine. It is mostly done for commercial purposes rather due to
the expense and the size of the machine. Long arm machines are over 14 feet
tall.
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