Debby Brown Quilts

 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 patterns.  I taught the first two

 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. Isn

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 quilt might show up in my Feather clas