Debby Brown Quilts

My  A La Mode Cutie Pattern  looks great in every color combination I've tried, and I've tried MANY! Kits for this quilt  are on sale so you can make one (or a dozen), too! I love black and white fabrics, and I also love experimenting to see how they play off different background colors. Hot aqua, anyone? I decided to go with my favorite ribbon candy quilting on this quilt, because I quilted this when I needed some extra fun in my life (meaning, any time in 2020).  I teach how to stitch Ribbon Candy  in my  First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting online class , both free-motion, and using a stencil. This quilt is awaiting its forever home.  I'm sure it will be loved wherever it eventually lives.

  This week, I had the pleasure of working with the new Just My Type fabric from Island Batik designed by Tamarinis .   2020 has been a year of adjustment, and one big adjustment has been dressing for working at home and Zoom meetings.  This fabric was perfect for my  Scarves to Share Cutie Pattern .  The pattern calls for 16 fat eighths to make two scarves so I used each fat quarter twice in my scarf. Check out Just My Type fabric and update your work from home wardrobe!

My  A La Mode Cutie Pattern  is my go-to giveaway quilt. Kits for this quilt  are on sale so you can make one (or a dozen), too! One of my "quilt crushes" is on Lori Holt of Bee in My Bonnet.  I have most of her books (and fabrics, and templates, and notions, and...).  So when I found this fabric, I needed to have it ALL! I decided to go with my favorite ribbon candy quilting on this quilt.  I teach how to stitch Ribbon Candy  in my  First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting online class , both free-motion, and using a stencil. This quilt has already been gifted to a new baby.   I hope it will be spit up on, dragged, abused, and loved for years to come. I only quilted in the background and left the beautiful fabrics to SHINE!

I'm sew excited to share the release of my Freeze Frame Cutie Pattern !  I made my sample out of Northcott Cosmo fabrics for a modern, muted look.  This quilt belongs to my brand new great niece!  I can't wait to meet her.  Snuggling newborns makes everything seem better, doesn't it? I put the kit for this quilt on sale on my website .  This quilt is fun to make and fun to quilt! I used Stone Tutti Cotton thread on the gray and pink fabrics alike, quilted a little continuous curve, and quilted A LOT of ribbon candy.  I quilted flowers and leaves in the blocks and borders and am planning a Floral Quilting online class in 2021.  Sign up for my newsletter so you won't miss any details about upcoming classes! If you'd like to learn to quilt ribbon candy or continuous curve, I recommend my Quilting Essentials: First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting online class .  There are ten lessons and directions for practice projects.  This class gets rave re...

 Scott from 4th and Main Designs tempted me beyond my ability to resist and I just had to make his Tuscan Vintage quilt . It was a perfect "I don't feel well" remedy and I enjoyed piecing and quilting it. I filmed as I quilted this quilt, so watch and see the loveliness unfold! If you want to support two designers at once, use Scott's link to buy my Quilting Essentials: First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting class!

A few months ago, I had a desperate hankering for lemon bars.  I couldn't make them at the time, so I decided to design a Cutie Pattern named Lemon Bars to hold me over until I could get to the kitchen. I made the sample using Lemon Fresh fabric , naturally, and I love how it turned out! In my Debby Brown's Machine Quilting Studio Facebook Group , I taught a class discussing all the different ways I could possibly quilt this quilt.  The class is saved in the group, so join and watch!  I teach a new mini-class every (most) weeks. Another class I taught was about my Top 10 Favorite Machine Quilting Thread Colors .  I put together a kit of these threads as a machine quilting starter pack.  I chose to quilt this entire quilt in yellow thread, even in the pink.  I love how it turned out.  And I loved not having to change the thread continuously! I machine quilted this quilt using ribbon candy, swirls, and pumpkin seed designs.  That's it.  Three p...

 I am in the middle of a month of medical treatments that leave me feeling punky and the best medicine for that is to jump into my scraps and make a new scrap quilt. Fortunately, the newest Quilter's World Magazine arrived in my mailbox at the perfect time!  Tricia Lynn Maloney designed Ski Party using a brightly colored jelly roll.  I knew I had scrappy gray 2 1/2" strips already cut in my stash, so I toned down her adorable quilt. I could complain about the really bright sun on this autumn day and how it washed out the color in my photograph a little bit, but I won't because... sun.  In autumn. Inspired by the machine quilting on the sample done by Cheryl Weiderspahn, I stitched a royal blue ribbon meander. I teach the basic meander pattern in my Quilting Essentials: First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting online class. I still have more gray scrappy strips and jelly rolls, and I know that I will more of these quilts while recovering from ongoing medical treatments. ...

It's now the season of "there's no good lighting for quilt photos," so please bear with me. I just finished another Sweet Tooth Cutie quilt , this time using an "I'm So Blue" Cutie Pack .  I've put a kit together for this quilt HERE . I make a lot of Sweet Tooth Cutie quilts and it's because of the Ribbon Candy . It's my favorite thing to quilt.  I was having a bad day and ribbon candied my way through it.  Is ribbon candy therapy a thing?  Because it works! I teach all of the machine quilting in this quilt (Ribbon Candy + Swirls) in my First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting online class .  I made sure to teach the 10 most useful and versatile designs in that class so students will be prepared to tackle their unfinished quilts at the end of class!

 I recently watched "Ender's Game" after reading the novel for the fifth (sixth?) time, and I spied a quilt.  It was an antique quilt and I needed to make it.  Like... NOW! While this quilt is perfectly lovely, the original was black/charcoal and dark hunter green.  I need to make this again, but DARKER! I will gift this quilt and it will be a well-loved failure. To make this quilt, I used a fat quarter pack of Deep, Rich Solids , and I'll remake the quilt with only these fabrics and no creamy neutrals.   I quilted this on my longarm, just to get it finished quickly.  I used the Swirl pattern taught in my Quilting Essentials:  First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting  online class.  Have you enrolled in that class yet?  It's a student favorite! I used Stone Tutti thread  for the quilting.  It didn't fight with the light fabrics and didn't disappear on the dark fabrics.  It was the perfect choice! The next iteration of this...

I might be guilty of loving my  A La Mode Cutie Pattern  a little too much.  I might also have a dozen of these already quilted and waiting to be given away.   K its for this quilt  are on sale so you can make one (or a dozen), too! I have loved low-volume fabric since it was called "neutral."  So I made a neutral A La Mode quilt with a Low-Volume Cutie pack and peach background. I decided to quilt this with meandering/stippling.  I teach how to meander/stipple  in my  First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting online class .  If "learn to stipple" is on your bucket list, check out my class. This quilt is sitting in the gift pile.   I know it will be the perfect get well, thinking of you, miss you, housewarming, or any other reason gift for someone. Sometimes, simple quilts in simple colors with simple quilting are just perfect.

 This week's Wednesday video is a continuation of how I quilted the background of the Full Heart panel . If you liked this video and want to learn more free-motion quilting on your home sewing machine, enroll in my First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting Class .

I recently remade my Bowl of Cherries Cutie Pattern in all neutrals for an elegant looking gift quilt. I like to give neutral quilts as wedding gifts, so this quilt will probably find its forever home with newlyweds. I quilted it with free-motion feathers using Lamb Tutti cotton thread in the needle and DecoBob Antique White thread in the bobbin. I recently finished filming my First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting class and will start filming a class about Threads and Needles and Batting.  In January, though, I will begin filming a class about how to quilt free-motion feathers on your home sewing machine, including the feather pattern I used on this quilt.  Sign up for my newsletter to make sure you don't miss any announcements about these classes. To see all of my online machine quilting classes, click HERE . I put together a kit for this elegant Bowl of Cherries quilt .  It's a fun and easy quilt to make, and it's on SALE!

 This week's Watch It Wednesday video features the Full Heart panel , available on my website.  I've shown how to stitch Filigree Feathers in the center hearts and how to outline the lines of hearts.  Join the free online class to see the first two videos.   This week, we're going to fill in some background.  Since I consider orange a "neutral" color for a background, I'm using a 50-weight bright orange variegated cotton from Tutti by WonderFil Specialty Threads. If you liked this video and want to learn more free-motion quilting on your home sewing machine, enroll in my First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting class.   But HURRY!  The "while I'm creating it" price ends on Friday, September 18, 2020.!

2020 has been, to say the least, an odd year.  I looked back to see when I last released a Cutie Pattern and it was in late 2019.  It's definitely time to release a new one, don't you think? Obliging as I am, I present:  Cobblestones! I decided to make this quilt using some very happy 30s reproduction fabrics : I had a lot of fun quilting this quilt kit with ribbon candy, continuous curve, and swirls in the border. After I quilted it, I realized that I teach all three of these techniques in my First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting class .  If you haven't purchased the class yet, do so now because the price will go up on September 16. At the request of students, I put together a kit of my favorite 10 machine quilting threads .  I used white thread for this quilt and have bundled a cone of white Konfetti cotton thread with a cone of white DecoBob thread for the bobbin for those who use white thread as much as I do! I became a great aunt this weekend and a special...

 Some folks love Halloween quilts.  Some folks love Christmas quilts.  This Bull's Eye Cutie Quilt   celebrates both holidays. The Nightmare Before Christmas border, wacky black and white prints, neon green background, and purple striped sashing makes this quilt kit perfect for Halloween, Christmas, and every other day of the year for some! This quilt has worked as a sample for a year or so and is now living its best life in its forever home!

It's been a long, hot summer here in New York and I tried to make myself feel a little cooler by finishing my Woodsy Noel Cutie Quilt.   My friend Tara, from Orchard Hill Quilting , designed this quilt and I'm totally obsessed with the adorableness of it. In December, I had a quilting event near my niece and nephew .  They are quite young and it was fun seeing them get excited about Christmas!  Right then, I knew that they needed this quilt while they were still young enough to love Santa. Santa's hat needed some ribbon candy, naturally.  He needed a curly beard and rosy cheeks, too! The trees were decorated with ribbon candy as well!  (Imagine that!) For every other family member who has waited and Waited and WAITED for Aunt Debby to send her very late gifts, I need to make it known that I was early with a gift.  Once.  And it will never happen again. I made this quilt from fabric in my stash.  What fabrics would you use?

 A La Mode Cutie Pattern is one of the quilt patterns I've made most often.*  It's as easy as pie... a la mode.  I love that it only requires Cutie Pack and 1 1/4 yards of background fabric.   There are no borders and the binding is cut from the Cutie Pack!  The frugal quilter in me LOVES THIS! I have put the kits for this quilt on sale so you can make one, too! These nautical prints from Riley Blake are completely adorable.  There are even WHALES in a few of the prints!!!  I also have Cutie Packs (16 fat eighths) of this line available in my shop . I decided to quilt this with overall loops to mimic the fabric with a rope print.  I teach how to quilt  Edge to Edge Loops in my First Steps to Free-Motion Quilting online class .  This free-motion pattern is what I suggest to my students as a first attempt at all-over or edge-to-edge quilting, and in class I show to nestle your patterns together, keep your loops (somewhat) even, and ...

I'm so pleased that this quilt is quilted, bound, filmed, and ready to be shipped off to a family member.  She thinks it's "Cute" and "Need[s] it."  There are few perks to being related to a quilter, but first dibs on quilts is one of them. This Beginning Cute Quilt features Sevilla fabrics from Benartex and Dublin backgrounds from Northcott. I found a new place to hang quilts to photograph because Hurricane Isaias destroyed my previous quilt space (aka "the back deck").  This is pretty, too, right?  And when we rebuild the deck, I will make sure it's photo worthy! Kits for this quilt are in my shop as well as Sevilla Cutie Packs . I quilted the hour glass blocks with curves using rulers on my home sewing machine. Learn how to do this in my video: In the video, I talked about: Ruler Feet Handi Quilter Slice Ruler Handi Grip Quilter's 1/4" Tape Grip Gloves This pumpkin seed design can be featured in un-pieced blocks, too! Have you eve...

This quilt is even sweeter than I thought it would be! The light showed the machine quilting, so that was great.  The fabric, however, isn't shown to its full effect.  And there was a tree shadow (darn trees!). Cherry Guidry designed My Little Sunshine 2 fabric line and it's absolutely ADORABLE! I have kits for the Bowl of Cherries quilt , Cutie Packs (16 fat eighth) , and fat quarters of this line in my shop. Machine quilting this quilt was so much fun!  I quilted ribbon candy in the white strip used that as the spine for elongated free-motion feathers in the rest of the block: My sweet Handi Quilter Stitch 710 handled this quilt like a champ. The WonderFil Konfetti thread with a DecoBob bobbin also performed without a single frustration.  I am currently running a special on this thread combination (save $5 when you buy both spools together) . I simply meandered over the bicycle border because the print was the star of the show. I'm c...