We all need to learn how to quilt our quilts with our domestic machine! Please do a video to teach us! Your daughter’s quilt is a masterpiece! You are very talented!
How clever to take something you've started but ran out of steam on and decide to interpose it into an altogether different interpretation of your inspiration--I like how you think! Very creative, very improv and smart (those English flowers could have lived in a bag for a decade or two). Thinking "Outside the box" is a great concept to pass on to others: you inspired me! Thank you!
'Stray from the pattern' yes! I do that all the time because I get bored with too much repetition. Your quilt is a beauty, great design. Thanks for sharing Nikki.
Your quilt is beautiful! Great job and quite an inspiration. Keep up the good work. PS - I have that book, too. Picked up at Goodwill for a couple of dollars, and inscribed in 1989 by the original purchaser named Kathy for her “dearest Grandma” with a lovely touching sentiment. I love the inscription almost as much as the book. It is a treasure. As are you.
Holy heck Nikki! You are inspiring for so many reasons. Your quirky & beautiful style, your work ethic always going the extra mile, your creativity which never stops, your problem solving, your sense of good design, your rule-breaking spirit, your appreciation for the work of others, your determination, your never-say-die attitude, your unrivaled sewing skills & knowledge, and most of all … your love. It’s so apparent, you love creating, sewing, your viewers and mostly your family. All of your kids are so lucky to have you for their mom. This beautiful quilt is all these things rolled into one. Brava!! 👏❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏
🎉❤somewhere someone is going to publish a book like you found in the resale shop and you will be in it ❤🎉with all your wonderful creativity. I love your style and it reminds me Not to get stuck on the nitty gritty details that keep me in ufo land🤣
I love that you quilt like I do...figuring out a creative plan as you go. I'm a self-taught quilter. I've never used patterns. I see something and then love the creative process of figuring out how I would make it. Thank you for sharing!! You encourage me to keep being creative!
That quilt is gorgeous! You should enter it in the fair! It would be so cool to see it in person, even if it’s not a technical pattern quilt. Especially for that reason!
My great aunt used to say 'every fault is a fashion' meaning that if you make a mistake, you go with it and style it out! She was a very stylish and elegant lady.
Such a great way to make a quilt. My brain doesn’t work that way but I am finding small ways to incorporate improvisations. ❤ Def wanna see you machine quilt it!
Absolutely gorgeous quilt. You’re very inspiring. I love watching you work through your process. Your excitement is contagious. Love your style. I’m not much of a pattern person either. Can’t wait to see your machine quilting video finishing it off.
Love your videos! You are so inspiring! This quilt is gorgeous, I love the background color. I agree with you white would not have made it pop like the flesh color does. 😊 Happy sewing!
Love your videos . This quilt is so cute and so colorful and awesome .I have been learning new blocks and trying to put them all together in a sample quilt .I had decided to just go for it after seeing you work on your wonky house quilt ❤ love it . Thank you for doing what you do ! Fun to watch fun to learn .PS ...yes please any tips on finishing on a traditional plain old sewing machine would be SO SO SO helpful and appreciated. Thanks again
For pinwheels, I’d sew the 4 together and trim once. Love your process! Also, no need to turn your binding. Sew wrong sides together and iron flat. Center the seam allowance on one side, pressed open. When you appliqué it down the seam allowance is hidden on the underside. Thank you.
First I want to thank you! I came across your account a week ago and I have been binge watching your playlists. We have very similar “styles” of sewing. I am not one for using a pattern. You may know this already but I thought I might share a little half square triangle tip. If cut your squares big, put right sides together and sew around the outer edge all the way around, then cut an X in the centre (corner to corner)you will have 4 half square triangles. So much quicker and less trimming! Now back to binge watching 🥰. Thanks for the inspiration and motivation! Have the best day!
This quilt is beautiful! You are very creative! Yes, I would like to see you quilt this masterpiece! I know it can be done and lots of people do it, but I would like to see your version!
I LOVE how this quilt turned out and I’d love to see you quilt it!!! I’m a structured quilter who needs a pattern to follow and coordinating precuts. The thought of improve quilting was not something I would ever have thought about before finding your channel. You make it look so easy….you’ve inspired me to move out of my comfort zone and try the scrappy improve houses. You are so talented, I look forward to seeing your next idea!
Definitely interest in how to machine quilt on my domestic machine. And, yes, we have Girl Guides in Canada, but I think they've changed the name now. They also sell cookies, or they in the past. Thanks for the inspiration.
I love your daughter’s quilt. I made a grandmothers garden appliqué quilt. I put a flower on a 12” background, using two different fabrics for the background. I cut my hexis out with a scan n cut and had heat and bond literally on the back. I then ironed them on and zigzagged them on the background block. I did the raw edged appliqué method. Turned out great. I also made one of Kate’s (from the Last Homely House) EPP dog pattern. I basted all the papers on (92 total) and then hand stitched the dog together. My youngest granddaughter got that dog. I am now making another one and I used your method of gluing the papers. Much faster. After this one, I want to make another dog sewing all the pieces on my sewing machine just to see what method I like best.
Love the quilt, I have the same tube turner thing also 20 years old. I would like to see how you do the sewing machine quilting, I can always get more ideas for my sewing machine quilting.
Welcome to the free spirit club. Your work reflects the love in your great heart. I have followed only 1 pattern and learned I prefer my own ideas. Keep doing your way. Beautiful.
Very interested in machine quilting with my sewing machine. Your quilts are so inspiring. You are a wonderful designer. I so want to step out of patern performance. It is a confidence thing I think. Anyway, thank you for your inspirations.
I’ve been hoping to start learning to quilt, but I have 0 knowledge about sewing anything, I don’t even have a machine. Your videos have been so helpful. I can’t believe I stumbled on a quilter in my own city!! Thanks for the knowledge, neighbor 💖
Stunning! Loved everything you did and how beautifully it came together. I really love how your creativity flows when you don't use a pattern or set measurements. I just made my first quilt. I bought 3 different Halloween quilt patterns. I liked certain blocks from each so I decided to make whatever I liked from each, then I found myself wanting every block bigger. I made up my measurements as I went along. The creativity just flowed. I loved it and enjoyed the process so much better. I'm on my second quilt. I looked at a bunch of Fall quilts, picked designs I liked from multiple quilts and like you said -figure out how it's put together and then make sizes you want. No one else will have the same design that's for sure! 😊
I hand quilted 25 years ago but would love to see someone quilt on a domestic machine. I am planning on using scraps from my garment sewing to make quilted placemats. I don’t want to buy any fabric for this and I will do my own pattern, likely an improv design. Glad to find your channel.
Your quilt is stunning!!! I really like it!!! Yes, please show us how you can quilt that on your machine! I’m in Kentucky also..I’m in Monticelllo! I will be here 5 years the end of June~!
When I need a simple appliqué (leaf, etc.) I cut out 2 layers, sew all around, right sides together, slash the middle of the back, turn and press. I love your approach to quilting.
What a great quilt! These are the kinds of quilts I love. The two quilts I have that my Great Grandma made are scrappy. They used whatever they had to make quilts. They were strictly made for use at that time. I would love to see how you machine quilt your beautiful quilt on a regular sewing machine! Thanks for sharing, Nikki. Love your channel!❤
This quilt is gorgeous.. I love the background base fabric color.. not afraid to shy away from the granny EPP flowers. Love a tutorial in machine quilting
I just found your page about a month ago just scrolling through Sewing videos, I love your technique and your style. It’s much like what I’ve been trying to do, random Sewing improv style is so much fun, but working a full-time job gets in my way. Lol I have several completed quilt taps that I want to do on my domestic sewing machine also please make a video. I’d love to watch you do your quilt.❤️ thank you for all of your inspiration. 😊
I just finished about 100 little flowers and i love how you did yours! I know i dont want to connect them the original way, but wasnt sure how to put them together. This gives me ideas! Thanks!
I love this quilt! You’ve inspired me to throw off the pattern shackles and give my own imagination a try. Love the giant quilt book too. Thank you for sharing. 😊
Yes! Please record you quilting on your domestic machine! Especially how to manage the quilt bulk during the process. I love your quilt and showing us your thinking. I think the leaves "make" the quilt.
I love your tutorials! Thanks for the time and effort! This quilt is so beautiful! I too love to design my own quilts…I actually design and follow a pattern if I LOVE the way it looks. But it is a great feeling when one of my own designs work out! Can’t wait to see this quilt finished! Thanks again!
Wow, wow, wow. Your perseverance is always the most inspirational part. I like at the end how you grind it out. So real. It feels like how I feel at the end and it does not mean that I don't love it. I'm just done with it, yet I must fully execute it or I'll be so disappointed. Why I tend to be monogamous on projects. I quilt all my quilts on my domestic. No long arm budget. I have a right broken arm that never healed straight, so fmq is painful after about an hour. So it takes me about 2 weeks to quilt a quilt. So when I finish a top, I cut the next one, because, this hurts as well.. But it feels rewarding to be moving on. Then I baste the previous quilt and begin quilting. After an hour I take a break, then I start sewing together the next top. Sometimes I have finished the top before I finish quilting the previous quilt so there is a bit of a backup. And sometimes I mix machine quilting with hand quilting. So I'll just stitch in the ditch to make sure it holds together and then hand embellish. In short, it is rare when I am not quilting an hour a day, unless it is a super busy work week.
I appreciate this so much! Because many of us were taught "the way to make a quilt" and no alternatives mentioned. Let your mind and your ideas become " the way to make a quilt". By the way I am not trashing what anyone else does but trashind the mindset that things can only be done "the right way" which basically translates "my way".
I love the cut backed leaves technique! I think I can do that!!! I absolutely adore “Baltimore album” quilts… but could not face the fussiness of hand appliquéing all the little bits. Now I can dive into Pinterest to choose a couple blocks for cushions. Thanks a bunch!!
I love to watch your thought processes! My type of sewing too! The leaves turned out perfectly. For leaves and circles you can also cover in aluminium foil and press. Keeps the turn line! Looking forward to your next project (Blue Mountains NSW Australia)
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I forgot to add that I would absolutely love to watch you quilt this on your sewing machine.
We all need to learn how to quilt our quilts with our domestic machine! Please do a video to teach us!
Your daughter’s quilt is a masterpiece! You are very talented!
I love your creativity and optimism
How clever to take something you've started but ran out of steam on and decide to interpose it into an altogether different interpretation of your inspiration--I like how you think! Very creative, very improv and smart (those English flowers could have lived in a bag for a decade or two).
Thinking "Outside the box" is a great concept to pass on to others: you inspired me! Thank you!
Your improv style is very inspiring. The unique background color is really refreshing.
Your quilt is perfect with its imperfections. Thank goodness we don’t have to do perfect!!!!!! Love it. Thanks for sharing.
Your quilt is gorgeous, great job.
'Stray from the pattern' yes! I do that all the time because I get bored with too much repetition.
Your quilt is a beauty, great design. Thanks for sharing Nikki.
Your quilt is beautiful! Great job and quite an inspiration. Keep up the good work. PS - I have that book, too. Picked up at Goodwill for a couple of dollars, and inscribed in 1989 by the original purchaser named Kathy for her “dearest Grandma” with a lovely touching sentiment. I love the inscription almost as much as the book. It is a treasure. As are you.
This is amazing. What a memory you have made with your daughter. Priceless ❤
We have Girl Guide cookies in Canada 😊
Really like your thought process in quilting ❤
I love the quilt. But GIRL… the path with the tree and the ivy is GORGEOUS TOO
Haha thank you, that ivy has gotten the best of us 😅.
Love your tutorials!
What a fabulous quilt! You are so creative! Thanks for this video! I quilt all my quilts on my Janome. I would like to see your quilting video.
So super cute! I love it! And I am inspired❤
Holy heck Nikki! You are inspiring for so many reasons. Your quirky & beautiful style, your work ethic always going the extra mile, your creativity which never stops, your problem solving, your sense of good design, your rule-breaking spirit, your appreciation for the work of others, your determination, your never-say-die attitude, your unrivaled sewing skills & knowledge, and most of all … your love. It’s so apparent, you love creating, sewing, your viewers and mostly your family. All of your kids are so lucky to have you for their mom. This beautiful quilt is all these things rolled into one. Brava!! 👏❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏
🎉❤somewhere someone is going to publish a book like you found in the resale shop and you will be in it ❤🎉with all your wonderful creativity. I love your style and it reminds me
Not to get stuck on the nitty gritty details that keep me in ufo land🤣
So pretty!!!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Beautiful! Yes please do a video on quilting with your home machine. Thank you!
Fab and inspiring. xx
I love that you quilt like I do...figuring out a creative plan as you go. I'm a self-taught quilter. I've never used patterns. I see something and then love the creative process of figuring out how I would make it. Thank you for sharing!! You encourage me to keep being creative!
Dying to see you quilt something with your machine. I'm about to do my first one!
That quilt is gorgeous! You should enter it in the fair! It would be so cool to see it in person, even if it’s not a technical pattern quilt. Especially for that reason!
Thank you! I am considering it 😊
I agree. Enter it. 👍👍👍
What a inspiring video, thanks for sharing!
My great aunt used to say 'every fault is a fashion' meaning that if you make a mistake, you go with it and style it out! She was a very stylish and elegant lady.
Love it 🙌🏻
Love your stylle!
Your quilts belong in that book! Absolutely beautiful! ❤❤❤
Such a great way to make a quilt. My brain doesn’t work that way but I am finding small ways to incorporate improvisations. ❤ Def wanna see you machine quilt it!
What a beautiful process! I would love to see you quilt it on your regular sewing machine! Thank you for sharing your talent with us!
I love the way you think. I wish I had that talent. The book is a treasure.
This is great inspiration! Would love to see how you keep your quilt sandwich flat while machine quilting.
That quilt is beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I hope your daughter LOVES it! Such an inspiration watching you and your joy!
Fabulous Quilt
Absolutely gorgeous quilt.
You’re very inspiring. I love watching you work through your process. Your excitement is contagious. Love your style. I’m not much of a pattern person either. Can’t wait to see your machine quilting video finishing it off.
Love your videos! You are so inspiring! This quilt is gorgeous, I love the background color. I agree with you white would not have made it pop like the flesh color does. 😊 Happy sewing!
Love your videos . This quilt is so cute and so colorful and awesome .I have been learning new blocks and trying to put them all together in a sample quilt .I had decided to just go for it after seeing you work on your wonky house quilt ❤ love it . Thank you for doing what you do ! Fun to watch fun to learn .PS ...yes please any tips on finishing on a traditional plain old sewing machine would be SO SO SO helpful and appreciated. Thanks again
For pinwheels, I’d sew the 4 together and trim once. Love your process! Also, no need to turn your binding. Sew wrong sides together and iron flat. Center the seam allowance on one side, pressed open. When you appliqué it down the seam allowance is hidden on the underside. Thank you.
That is beautiful quilt
First I want to thank you! I came across your account a week ago and I have been binge watching your playlists. We have very similar “styles” of sewing. I am not one for using a pattern. You may know this already but I thought I might share a little half square triangle tip. If cut your squares big, put right sides together and sew around the outer edge all the way around, then cut an X in the centre (corner to corner)you will have 4 half square triangles. So much quicker and less trimming! Now back to binge watching 🥰. Thanks for the inspiration and motivation! Have the best day!
This beautiful quilt screams love to me! I would love to see you quilt it....
🌷🌼🌷
Feels like such a happy quilt ... one of the best things I've seen this year, well done !!
Absolutely beautiful 😍
Love your quilt and I'm definitely interested in seeing how you quilt it on your sewing machine.
This quilt is beautiful! You are very creative! Yes, I would like to see you quilt this masterpiece! I know it can be done and lots of people do it, but I would like to see your version!
I LOVE how this quilt turned out and I’d love to see you quilt it!!!
I’m a structured quilter who needs a pattern to follow and coordinating precuts. The thought of improve quilting was not something I would ever have thought about before finding your channel.
You make it look so easy….you’ve inspired me to move out of my comfort zone and try the scrappy improve houses.
You are so talented, I look forward to seeing your next idea!
Beautifully amazing.
Definitely interest in how to machine quilt on my domestic machine. And, yes, we have Girl Guides in Canada, but I think they've changed the name now. They also sell cookies, or they in the past. Thanks for the inspiration.
I love your daughter’s quilt. I made a grandmothers garden appliqué quilt. I put a flower on a 12” background, using two different fabrics for the background. I cut my hexis out with a scan n cut and had heat and bond literally on the back. I then ironed them on and zigzagged them on the background block. I did the raw edged appliqué method. Turned out great. I also made one of Kate’s (from the Last Homely House) EPP dog pattern. I basted all the papers on (92 total) and then hand stitched the dog together. My youngest granddaughter got that dog. I am now making another one and I used your method of gluing the papers. Much faster. After this one, I want to make another dog sewing all the pieces on my sewing machine just to see what method I like best.
Love the quilt, I have the same tube turner thing also 20 years old. I would like to see how you do the sewing machine quilting, I can always get more ideas for my sewing machine quilting.
Wow - your quilt is beautiful!! ❤ I would love to see how you quilt it.
Beautiful quilt! I would love to see a video of you quilting this on your home machine.
I love, love, LOVE this quilt!! 🩷🌼🌸🌺🩷
You are such an amazing quilter and sewist. Thank you for sharing your passion with us!
Welcome to the free spirit club. Your work reflects the love in your great heart. I have followed only 1 pattern and learned I prefer my own ideas. Keep doing your way. Beautiful.
Nikki, You are amazing!!! Beautiful job
Very interested in machine quilting with my sewing machine. Your quilts are so inspiring. You are a wonderful designer. I so want to step out of patern performance. It is a confidence thing I think. Anyway, thank you for your inspirations.
The quilt is delightful! So lovely! 🥰 I am sure she will adore it. I would be very interested in watching you machine quilt this adorable quilt
I'd love to see you quilt this! I have a quilt top that I've finished, but I'm not sure how to quilt it on my domestic machine.
I’ve been hoping to start learning to quilt, but I have 0 knowledge about sewing anything, I don’t even have a machine. Your videos have been so helpful. I can’t believe I stumbled on a quilter in my own city!! Thanks for the knowledge, neighbor 💖
Aw, Hi! 😄
Beautiful quilt top.
I would love to see how you quilt it on a domestic machine.
Stunning! Loved everything you did and how beautifully it came together. I really love how your creativity flows when you don't use a pattern or set measurements. I just made my first quilt. I bought 3 different Halloween quilt patterns. I liked certain blocks from each so I decided to make whatever I liked from each, then I found myself wanting every block bigger. I made up my measurements as I went along. The creativity just flowed. I loved it and enjoyed the process so much better. I'm on my second quilt. I looked at a bunch of Fall quilts, picked designs I liked from multiple quilts and like you said -figure out how it's put together and then make sizes you want. No one else will have the same design that's for sure! 😊
I hand quilted 25 years ago but would love to see someone quilt on a domestic machine. I am planning on using scraps from my garment sewing to make quilted placemats. I don’t want to buy any fabric for this and I will do my own pattern, likely an improv design. Glad to find your channel.
Oh my, it is gorgeous! What a labor of love! I’m sure Layla will cherish it!🥰👏🏻
I love your process. I like to flow with my quilts. Following a pattern, for me, changes the flow. Thank you for the encouragement to do my own thang
Your quilt is stunning!!! I really like it!!! Yes, please show us how you can quilt that on your machine! I’m in Kentucky also..I’m in Monticelllo! I will be here 5 years the end of June~!
Oh hi! We’ve only lived here for less than two years, but we really love it.
I love this quilt top and the fact that you design it as you go….so cute,awesome, etc
Love this quilt for Layla and your process!! So inspiring! Thank you!!
Oh so beautiful! Great video too! And yes quilting on home machine video, don’t know how.
Love the quilt! Yes please, would love to see how you quilt on your domestic machine!
When I need a simple appliqué (leaf, etc.) I cut out 2 layers, sew all around, right sides together, slash the middle of the back, turn and press.
I love your approach to quilting.
What a great quilt! These are the kinds of quilts I love. The two quilts I have that my Great Grandma made are scrappy. They used whatever they had to make quilts. They were strictly made for use at that time.
I would love to see how you machine quilt your beautiful quilt on a regular sewing machine! Thanks for sharing, Nikki. Love your channel!❤
I love this quilt! My favorite part is the hst border around your star edges. Your improv style is inspiring. Thanks!
This quilt is gorgeous.. I love the background base fabric color.. not afraid to shy away from the granny EPP flowers. Love a tutorial in machine quilting
I absolutely love your improv style! Yes, please video the quilting process of this quilt.
Yes it will be perfect to see you quilted in your sewing machine 🎉
I just found your page about a month ago just scrolling through Sewing videos, I love your technique and your style. It’s much like what I’ve been trying to do, random Sewing improv style is so much fun, but working a full-time job gets in my way. Lol I have several completed quilt taps that I want to do on my domestic sewing machine also please make a video. I’d love to watch you do your quilt.❤️ thank you for all of your inspiration. 😊
Yes please show how you quilt on your machine your daughter is going to love this quilt forever
It's beautiful ❤. Can you please show us how to machine quilt
Making up a quilt as I go is my favorite ❤️
Yes, please video how you quilt a large quilt on a regular machine! I thought only quilt as you go could be done.
Will do!
Yes to a video to quilting on your domestic machine.
Love the quilt…looks great. 😊
What a beauty! Love your creativity and willingness to just go for it. The perfections in me hold me back.
OMG...I have machine quilted ALL my quilts in the last 25 years!!! Even a King size quilt. You go girl!
I just finished about 100 little flowers and i love how you did yours! I know i dont want to connect them the original way, but wasnt sure how to put them together. This gives me ideas! Thanks!
Your quilt is AMAZING! Such a beautiful design! I really enjoyed watching this video.💕
I love this quilt! You’ve inspired me to throw off the pattern shackles and give my own imagination a try. Love the giant quilt book too. Thank you for sharing. 😊
I Love This❤❤
I just love this quilt! I loveQuilts using all different fabrics.
Oh my goodness, I absolutely love your quilt!!!!!!
Yes! Please record you quilting on your domestic machine! Especially how to manage the quilt bulk during the process. I love your quilt and showing us your thinking. I think the leaves "make" the quilt.
I love the quilt, you can make beautiful quilts. I wish I had the courage to think out of the box like you.
I'm definitely interested in a video about sewing machine quilting. I think your quilt is beautiful!! Layla will love it!
I love your tutorials! Thanks for the time and effort! This quilt is so beautiful! I too love to design my own quilts…I actually design and follow a pattern if I LOVE the way it looks. But it is a great feeling when one of my own designs work out! Can’t wait to see this quilt finished! Thanks again!
It's wonderful. You are expanding my thought process and rethinking background colors. Thank you!
The tube turner looks amazing! I adore the quilt. You’re so right about the background color.
OMG, your quilt is beautiful! I can't imagine Layla not loving it.
She really loves it 😁
Wow, wow, wow. Your perseverance is always the most inspirational part. I like at the end how you grind it out. So real. It feels like how I feel at the end and it does not mean that I don't love it. I'm just done with it, yet I must fully execute it or I'll be so disappointed. Why I tend to be monogamous on projects. I quilt all my quilts on my domestic. No long arm budget. I have a right broken arm that never healed straight, so fmq is painful after about an hour. So it takes me about 2 weeks to quilt a quilt. So when I finish a top, I cut the next one, because, this hurts as well.. But it feels rewarding to be moving on. Then I baste the previous quilt and begin quilting. After an hour I take a break, then I start sewing together the next top. Sometimes I have finished the top before I finish quilting the previous quilt so there is a bit of a backup. And sometimes I mix machine quilting with hand quilting. So I'll just stitch in the ditch to make sure it holds together and then hand embellish. In short, it is rare when I am not quilting an hour a day, unless it is a super busy work week.
I appreciate this so much! Because many of us were taught "the way to make a quilt" and no alternatives mentioned. Let your mind and your ideas become " the way to make a quilt". By the way I am not trashing what anyone else does but trashind the mindset that things can only be done "the right way" which basically translates "my way".
I love the cut backed leaves technique! I think I can do that!!! I absolutely adore “Baltimore album” quilts… but could not face the fussiness of hand appliquéing all the little bits. Now I can dive into Pinterest to choose a couple blocks for cushions. Thanks a bunch!!
I love to watch your thought processes! My type of sewing too! The leaves turned out perfectly. For leaves and circles you can also cover in aluminium foil and press. Keeps the turn line! Looking forward to your next project (Blue Mountains NSW Australia)
Yes, please show us how you quilt on your machine! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼