My mom was making an ugly quilt for charity. She died suddenly. Then a year later, my sister was in a horrific accident. She broke 13 bones and shattered her femur. She really was missing Mom. So I finished that ugly quilt and brought it to my sister. I didn't even wash it. She was so comforted by that ugly thing and she still cherishes it - the last quilt Mom made.
My eyes teared up before I even finished reading what you wrote. I wouldn't have wanted it washed either. Such a beautiful story, I would have had a hard time finishing it but would have been so proud to have done so. I'm certain your sister truly appreciates and loves you for finishing that quilt.
The effort from love and the shaping of the adult you have become would be one of her greatest accomplishments while she was on earth. I have a brother with special needs and my mother died after a prolong heart disease problem. He couldn’t accept she was gone. So I thought, and came up with something to comfort him. I told him to get her one of her dresses and hold it at night when he went to bed. I think it helped a little.
What a blessing to have something that Mom handled and left her distinct theramones on. The comfort of wrapping Mom around her must have made her healing process much easier. I drew great comfort from wearing my Mom's jeans after she passed away suddenly.
Your beautiful “UGLY QUILT” inspired me and my quilting buddies!! I tackled the first one that I made at a retreat and we all loved it so much that we decided to all make Ugly Quilts at our next retreat and we put a spin on it! We decided to each bring our “ugly’” fabric already cut into squares and trade them. Rules of the trade - take as many squares that you brought. It was so fun to see and use each other’s beautiful “ugly” fabric. Some of us made big quilts, some of us made small quilts. Some of us did 4 cuts per fabric square and others did more cuts - more cuts make each fabric piece smaller but makes the quilt more varied… I hope this inspires some more quilters to use up some of their “what am I going to do with this???” fabric. I was going to post pictures of our quilts but cant figure out how to do it...
Great video. Great instructions. But your reason for why a WOMBAT are golden words of wisdom. I'm a seamstress, not a quilter. I"ve had an alteration shop for 7 years. The one surprising lesson I've learned is that fabric holds memories like a scent does. Your words may finally get me into quilting. Thank you.
the mrs. here...my ex SIL wanted to learn to quilt. i used my ugly fabric as i knew she'd not last, lol. while finishing it for the car, my sister said she'd take it (site unseen) for her dog getting on their bed. some years later she asked me to repair it. THAT WAS THE UGLIEST QUILT!!! i had forgotten just how ugly! i told her that one was so ugly i'd make her a new one. in a quiet voice as she petted that ugly quilt, she told me, " for nearly 20 yrs every winter this was on my bed, i was covered with your love. when i was feeling down or sick, i was wrapped in your caring. and in those middle-of-the-night rocking a cranky baby, wrapped in this quilt, you were there encouraging me. you don't understand just how special this is". that was 30 yrs ago and that ugly quilt now hangs on a wall rack near her bed, reminding her she is loved (her words). and from other comments, ugly quilts have a special place in our lives.
So very true! My daughter has an ugly quilt covering her bed that was made by my Nana (grandmother) who died when I was 3 years old. My mother has had to repair it a couple of times already but my daughter loves it so much she refuses to give it up for a new one.
I have a quilt with ugly upholstery fabric and yo-yos and rick rack from I to Love to you Charlotte by my grandmother. Dad saw that quilt when i was growing up and never read it. One day I showed it to him after we argued and he was driving away to go back home. I stood and pointed to the I, the love, the you, and then Charlotte. His Mom didn't tell him or anyone she loved them, but she wrote it on my dolly quilt made out of purple upholstery fabric and brown cotton. It is an ugly quilt made with love. Dad is gone. He felt a lot better after I pointed to the words as he was about to drive off with Mom. He didn't get out and hug me or say anything. He just shook his head up and down.
Of all the quilts my mom made when she died we all wanted her scrapie quilt. It was made with all our clothes when we were kids. So many memories and more precious than gold
My mom made a quilt using my brother's tee shirts. What a collection of all his favorite things. She used a cotton with a faded denim print for the backing and binding. She was so proud of it that she entered it the state fair and won a ribbon. It became by brother's joy.
My mum made a couple of them too... unfortunately she's been less sentimental & they were used in the car for the dog! I'm still interested in getting hold of them though.
Good morning everyone. While I was organizing my fabrics last week , I realized I had fabric in my stash that I would never quilt with. Some of the fabric I hated but most just were no longer working for me. Then I realized that we all have ‘Ugly’ fabric. I hope that you can use these tips. And for those that are interested, my son is doing better. Thank you for all your goods thoughts.
Just Get it Done Quilts wow, when I saw the notification for you video I thought I need to inquire about how your son is doing. Glad to hear he’s doing better.
Thanks for the update on your son. So glad to hear he's doing better. Hope you are well too, and are finding moments of joy and peace. Oh, and I'm going to use up some fabrics to make a 'wombat' quilt. :)
Thanks for the update, and thanks for the great ideas! You know, Karen, your videos and tips and strategies are always applicable to other hobbies and efforts as well. I usually find myself sharing them later with other friends who have no intention of quilting but, for instance, have a stash of crochet thread to use up, or are trying to organize scraps in a woodworking shop. You always make quilting look so simple and easy, very helpful to me. I bought myself a sign which said, "Hang on while I Overthink this!" So I like your motto better, "Just Get It Done!" and have added, "Stop Thinking, Start Doing!" to my own stash of slogans.
Thanks for this video and update on your son. 💪🏻 my daughter finished her rounds of chemo a couple of weeks ago, she’s doing much better now. Tough on us Parents! She lives overseas, so I can’t be with her at this time - sewing is my happy escape. I appreciate your tips!!
Oh my goodness! Finally! A quilter who refers to rows and “columns!” I’m relatively new to this craft but have never understood referring to both the horizontal and vertical directions as rows. It’s just confusing. I wondered why nobody ever referred to the vertical “rows” as columns as they do in an Excel spreadsheet. So, thank you for making sense to me. I was so happy that I had to stop this video smack dab in the middle to write this. Only my second video in and I’m hooked. Subscribed! Edited to add: I’ve been binge-watching your videos and I’m glad to read in this video that your son is doing better.
Us Excel folks are just a different breed I guess because I thought the same thing as she was explaining. I'm very new to this and I have to mentally think and visualize vertical and horizonal but Columns and rows is immediately understood. :)
You might want to check out Jordan Fabrics' videos. She seems to work "linear," in rows and blocks, and always has shortcuts, yet her quilts look complicated. Guaranteed to impress the intended recipient. I Never had the eye for mentally disassembling a quilt into rows until I started watching Donna'a tutorials.
I made an "ugly quilt" from your pattern and leftover scraps from many other quilts I have made. I sent it to a friend, telling her that the fabrics all came from other quilts (one from another quilt I had made her years ago). Just recently I got an email from her husband, who said he has been ill with Covid-19, and is now almost recuperated. He told me the "ugly" quilt had given him hours of entertainment, finding the fabrics that matched, and speculating about all the other quilts I've made. And he said it was snuggly, and could be his hug when his wife and children couldn't hug him. Thank you for this pattern!
Karen, your "ugly" quilt pattern gave me inspiration! My oldest daughter is recently engaged and I considered making a quilt for their bed as a wedding gift but ... they have 2 dogs that they allow to sleep on the bed. After I watched your video I realized I have leftover cotton remnants from clothes made for her over the years. I found 12 swatches and have a lap size quilt top almost finished, and will give it to her at a shower party - memories from her youth that she can cuddle with, and I don't care if the dogs snuggle in too. Thanks for the idea!
I am a beginner sewer, quilter, everything. So when I found your fantastic channel where you bend the rules a bit to make things practical to every day life I fell in love with your channel and your tutorials, methods, tips, etc. You are amazing!! Thank you so much ☺️ for all the amazing tutorials 😍🥰❤️
My grandma made everyone quilts when we were wee ones. Amazingly she did them all by hand. She called them crazy quilts. They were always my most favorite quilts of hers. she actually made them out of cotton blouses and tops. Thank you for sharing this. I am not a quilter, I am a person that knows how to sew though. I've always wanted to make crazy quilts for my grandkids. Thank you for the inspiration.
Ms Kat, sure hope you do make quilts for your grands, they will cherish them always. My son is 54 and he still has his from his grandmother. If taken care of they last through generations:)
I inherited a giant bag of scrap fabrics from my mom about 30 years ago. I used up all the nicest, prettiest pieces in different projects over the years, but some of the fabrics in that bag were absolutely hideous and every time I sorted through those ones I would literally recoil in disgust. Then at one point I wondered why I was hanging on to all that ugliness and I challenged myself to make something beautiful out of it. I made a scrappy tumbling block wall hanging in which every piece was unique and super ugly. It turned out so nice that I proudly display it in a prominent place in my home and I get so many complements from most everyone who sees it. Sometimes I would tell them the story behind it and it's a lot of fun to see them get up close, scrutinize the individual components to confirm what I'm saying then watch their mixed reactions of surprise and revulsion. But they always step back again and marvel at how beautiful it is from a distance. I'm so glad I made that wall hanging - It's one of my favorite quilts. :-)
Thanks for suggesting using ugly fabrics for practicing Free motion quilting on. Have some really ugly bad color batiks that I have been considering tossing out. Not now! Can't afford to use an outside quilt person. Sewing for over 70 years and didn't even consider this idea. Senior moments!
I participated in an ugly quilt contest, that mine didn't win a prize or commendation - it was sponsored by the local quilt shop. However, I entered it into our local community fair and one my first blue ribbon for this quilt. When I was still working, it fit in my travel suitcase as I had a lot of overnight stays and I wanted my quilt. Then I got hit with bad arthritis and no more work, but I did get a lot of hospital visits and surgeries and the quilt always came with me. I am a nurse and I think to the nurses who saw me with the quilt it gave a topic of conversation as well as seeing me as a human. I sleep under it every night. BTW A lot of those quilt fabrics that you designated 'ugly' I would have loved to have! I love pink! I don't like some colors, but when making a scrap quilt of any kind, it is amazing how those fabrics that you don't quite like can find other scraps that the two of them make a great block. As a quilter there is one thing I don't understand. Why this urge to use up your stash? To me it is like money in the bank for those times when I can't afford to buy fabric. Much of my fabric purchases over the last 4-5 years has been finds at the thrift store. When a fat quarter is selling for a quarter, why pass it by. Someday it will be the exact color/print that I need.
Gail Rodgers I’m so proud of you for winning a ribbon! That’s so neat! I was always too scared to enter anything and now I live in Vegas where the nearest county fair is who knows where- not down at the topless night clubs- lol. But, I thought wouldn’t it be a good idea to create an online fabric trade or place that people could donate to quilters and that if you sign up to the group you’re at least allowed a pick for free. Then, if you had fabric you thought was ugly you could turn it in and pick new (old) fabric that you might love better! I had all this material I gave to savers when I was younger from my grandma (yes, I could kick myself- but I was in college and didn’t have room), I would have much rather donated to a place like that!
Was so happy to see your notification this morning! And that your son is doing better! (I’ll keep the prayers going). I started quilting about 4 months ago thinking since I know how to sew, how hard could making a quilt be? 🤪right? So I’ve watched countless videos and only subscribed to a few, and you are by far my Favorite! Just so you know you are my new BFINMY ( BF I’ve not met yet). LOVE that your videos are quick and easy to understand. Thank you. I’ve learned, yes the hard way, that nesting seams for that elusive “perfect” meet up ain’t happnin! So this hospital quilt pattern is a Godsend to me! Plus (huge bonus) I’ll be using up my 5” squares because I’ve got TONs. In the interest of being frugal I bought many different prints and colors from my local thrift store. (BC aka before covid). I just had to deconstruct them all first, as they came in the form of previously been worn shirts, skirts, and pants! After deconstruction I had hubby help to sort into color piles where I found out the pieces that were supposed to be red are brown etc. (never let a colorblind person fabric shop alone). Just a different challenge I will overcome. All of the fabrics have different fiber qualities so I’m hoping this is why my perfectly nested joints are broken. And the reason for 5” squares is I saw several cute patterns requiring charms so I thought I would just sew them up. Thus all my fabrics are now tiny squares. 😆 Note to self: just buy the quilting cottons, from a reputable quilt store, in the first place. So long story short, I’ll send you a pic of my version of “hospital quilt” once done. Thanks again for your videos! Melea, Blairsville Georgia
To melea ,,,,Grew up in Blairsville Georgia,,small town USA, mother moved us 40 years ago to find work,now live in Lafayette GA,probably about 2 hours away.
I made of of these many years ago after seeing a pattern in a magazine. It used all fruit and vegetable fabrics and was called a picnic quilt. I used novelty scraps and LOVE it! It’s the quilt I keep in my car for spur of the moment picnics, cold soccer games, etc. I was given a fat quarter pack of “ugly but coordinating fabrics”- maybe I’ll throw together one of these for a charity quilt.
I haven’t watched your videos in six months at least I used to watch them regularly and then I stopped mainly because I wasn’t quilting but was crocheting. I don’t know why I stopped because I love your videos. They are informative, entertaining and enlightning. And you always touch my heart with your wisdom. You are right, I wouldn’t use a beautifully made quilt for picnics or table covers or for tent making. But I surely would use an ugly quilt for these things. In fact some of the first quilts I made are grabbed first for camping, kids over night parties, wrapping up a sick child. I’ll keep watching you because you are caring and can lift my spirits so that I feel better when I’m depressed, sad, afraid or angry especially in these times of being secluded a d sequestered. Thanks for putting a smile on my face and joy in my heart. ❤️❤️💚💜💛
Hi from the UK! I've been watching a few of your videos recently, and when I saw this one I immediately clicked on. I've actually made a few 'Ugly' quilts already! We call that pattern a 'Crazy Nine Patch' over here, and I actually have a tip for anyone who wants theirs to 'make sense' as it were. When the blocks are finished, if you lay the first one down and then look not at the very central piece of fabric, but the piece next to it, then that piece is the fabric that will be at the centre of your next block. It means that no fabric will line up next to itself on the blocks beside it, and I've found that it works really well!
like your description. This will help on many layouts, not just this pattern, but ones where you don't want 2 matching fabrics together. Thanks, I put it in my hints notebook.
All of those "ugly" fabrics can sometimes turn out beautiful in a quilt. This was a great video! I use some of my ugly fabric as liners for inside pockets in bags. They are never seen and no one even notices them. Again, great video!
Just wanted to let you know that you look lovely in this video. I remember you’ve shared some stories of rough times in your life lately, which definitely are not evident here. Thank you for the info, time, and free pattern!
I made one of your quilts a while back and I just fell in love with it, but then I gave it away to a young girl who had juvenile diabetes and I missed it so much I asked my daughter to help me re look up this video so I can make one for myself.. I'm still watching your video and still loving the technique..
I have made that crazy 9 patch quilt many times! Years ago, a friend and I were bemoaning all the ugly Christmas fabrics in our stashes. We worked together, cutting squares out of yards and yards of the ugly fabrics (keeping back some longer lengths for borders/bindings), shared our piles for more variety, and each made a king size quilt plus a very large lap quilt. I even sewed pieces of fabric together to make a piece large enough for the backing (my mom had gifted me with all her Christmas fabric, too, and it was REALLY ugly!). It was very satisfying to use up all that fabric, and those quilts come out every year!
As a total beginner, I've watched this several times. It's a great place to start for beginners and it doesn't have to be ugly fabric. This and your video on pre-washing or not has been so useful and practical. Also, LOVE the fact that you don't spend any time showing us your teapot and lighting candles. You stay 100% on topic.
Karen, you put such joy and fun into your ‘making’. A comfort quilt is surely something we can all use in these uncertain days. Off to my fabric stash!
Just finished 3 “ugly” quilts for my husband and two adult sons. Hopefully they will keep them in their vehicles. Thanks for a great way to use up fabric that would never be used. And I must say they are not ugly at all.
Good Morning from Texas. Every morning I get my coffee and open my ipad to check up on whats going on in my little world. When I see you have posted a new video, all else must wait. I move to my favorite chair and cozy up for a visit with my friend. When your video ends I say a little prayer for your son. Thank you, Karen for spending your precious time with all of your friends around the world.
I just stumbled onto this channel today and I am sipping coffee as I read all these wonderful comments. I am not a seasoned sewing person yet, I have accomplished a few things in my last 23 or so years. My mom (rest her soul) was great with the sewing machine. I wish I could have learned from her. She passed when I was just 13 years old. I hope to learn a lot from Karen. 🙏🏼🧵
I buy a lot of “ugly fabric” at thrift stores. Now that you’ve put this video out here, I’m sure the picking are going to get harder to find. Thanks for another great idea; you brighten my day, Karen.
I just love watching your videos!! Karen, you consistently make me smile. I learn a lot and laugh a lot too. Thank you! PS...I am I the only one that is brought to tears reading comments from a QUILTING VIDEO?!?!
I made one, it was so much fun!!! First quilt in many years!! I’m making another one for my son and daughter. Thanks for the great idea! Love your videos
My ugly cottons are getting a lot of use as masks. I’ve donated several dozen. Due to elastic shortages, I’ve been making ties for my masks. Ugly fabrics are great for that since they are 1/4 inch wide. I also make T-shirt quilts for customers. I use ugly fabrics as a stabilizing backing for the jersey knit of the t shirts. It saves me so much grief.
This is interesting. I always stabilize the t shirt with fusible interfacing. How do you attach the cotton to the jersey? I want to try this, sounds like it would be a nice weight and way to use extra fabric.
It is amazing to me how many people are touched by something like this... most quilters become so wrapped up in the precision of the hobby that they forget the emotional part of it.... for me that's the most important part... i spend most of my life trying to convince other quilter's to think this way!
Have made this quilt many times using scrap pieces. They always come out beautiful even with ugly material. We call them “Wack and Stack” quilts. From Busselton. Western Australia.
Loved this video so I had to subscribe. Great idea for a hospital quilt and pattern to go with it. It will be great for my guilds community quilt efforts. My mother has been in the hospital a lot in the past and she always wants a quilt because she gets cold. I have one that I take but I’m always nervous about it getting stolen, forgotten or damaged. This will be a grand solution and I can make it to fit a hospital size bed too. Keep the great ideas and videos coming. God Bless you.🤩
This was the first quilt pattern I learned when I took a quilt class ... We started with 17 fat quarters squared up to 18 inches square .... The idea was a project we would actually finished. We did not worry too much about exact seam side it was just sew it up then square it up... Love doing this pattern in mono chromatic fabrics and you are right ... these quilts often become a cherished quilt .
I loved this so much because this is just the kind of quilt that my aunt used to make when I was a child. She made lots of clothes for me, my sisters and my cousins and she had lots of scraps. She would use the scraps to make quilts for us and they were designed to be used. My sisters and I used to lay across those quilts and remember that we had a dress out this fabric and a pair of shorts out of another fabric and so on. I adored those quilts so much and my dear sweet Aunt who made them.
I made three scrap quilts to use to keep myself and wife warm in the cold months while sitting in the family room. 3 other quilts hang on walls, the favorites of friends are the scrap quilts. Part of my attachment to the scrap quilts are the family members who received baby quilts or just gifts. One of the scrap quilts have backing from my mother's stash. The are scraps of fabric and rich with feeling.
What a good idea. I have been upset that due to Covid 19 I will not be able to be with my grand twins in the nicu. I have. Little time so I will make them each a nicu grandma hospital quilt for them. To have grandma’s love to be with them.
the mrs. here...oh mz. cindy! i pray you are now enjoying those precious babies. we had a new one in april...in another state. its so hard not being there. i'm sure those quilts will be cherished for yrs to come. so happy for you! hugs!
Thanks Karen, love your ugly quilt pattern. I have a lot of FQ's I got when I first started quilting that I have to shake my head at an wonder what the heck I was thinking. They will make some great give away quilts.
I made an "ugly" quilt for my sister-in-law. She takes it to her grandchildren's wrestling matches, dance competitions, soccer games and ball games. No matter where she goes that "ugly" and imperfect quilt gets so many compliments. I have no doubt by the time her grandchildren have grown up it will be a treasured memory.
There is no such thing as a bad quilt as long as the fabric is mostly cotton. Because it can be over-dyed if the colors don't work for the user. And everyone likes a handmade quilt. It's just cozy!!
My mum made a couple of patchwork bed covers out of material scraps when I was a kid. They now live on the backseat of her car for the dog. That actually annoyed me as they material used represented my childhood as it outlasted the clothes the I'd worn that the scraps came from!
I have spent the whole morning, on a Saturday, - when I should be doing budget, groceries and laundry - becoming acquainted with your content. I am a new instant fan. I love the spirit of your recordings. Look out Jenny Doan. There's a new sheriff in town. haha. Seriously, you've done a great job and inspire me to not be intimidated to move forward with my own aspirations.
I used your idea and thought I was making an ugly quilt. I didn’t really love any of the fabrics but now that it’s done I really think it’s pretty 💕 I’m using it for the furbabies
Dear Karen, I just finished my first „ugly“ quilt and it turned out sooo pretty! My 15 year old niece is a huge Christmas fan, so I took 20 different Christmas fabrics in this new kind of „candy“ colors and it looks modern but festive too. Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial 💕 Lots of love from Germany
I have been “gifted “ lots of fabrics for mask making and made over 1500 to give away during the age of COVID. I have too much left and will use it for this quilt for all of the reasons that you state to do it. Thanks for this video
And 2021 , AGE IF COVID is STILL RAGING ! Will take at LEAST 1 year or MORE , from 2021 , to DRASTICALLY SLOW DOWN , IF ENOUGH people Vaccinate ! Keep SEWING !
Using wrong side of fabric - my mother could not always get the right tone for her applique but if she turned it to the wrong side it calmed down. Check it out
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I was feeling a little guilty using up “ugly” fabric for the face masks.... LOL. And I’ve made bags from my ugly fabric.... thus being said and feeling more like friends who think alike, I can not wait to make an ugly quilt! I’ve been avoiding my current quilt project because it’s more difficult than anticipated. Love ALL your suggestions on what to do with them. Will definitely be incorporating using the “uglies” before starting a quilt. Especially when it’s switching from too much baking back to quilting..... 😉
I was worried when you posted your "update" that we weren't going to be seeing you for a while , but then in short order you posted the Color Exercises (empowering!) And now this one on ugly fabric. Delighful! Keep up the good work. There is no other quilting channel like yours. It really is about giving strategies on making the quilt that I want to make.
I don't think these are ugly fabrics because when they are put together they make a beautiful quilt. I love these types of quilts. I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
👍Thank you so much for all of these ideas and the "ugly" quilt pattern. I love the freedom to put fabric together that doesn't have to fit the rules. I am finishing a quilt that my grand son helped to sew. I chose to make the blocks for his quilt 10" x 20" for easy piecing and quick sew, as we only had a few hours to work together on the quilt. He is nine years old and loves to sew. He even did some quilting on my Grace quilt frame. I finished the quilting today. Tomorrow I'll trim and bind it. After making a label, I'll send it off to him. I know he will enjoy his new quilt that he sewed himself. Thank you for the great video. God bless.
The way you describe the comfort factor and logic of having a non-precious quilt makes me want to make one right now! And I've never quilted before! And may I say the quilt from "ugly" fabric is not a bit ugly; thanks for this inspiration. 🙂
This would be such a great technique for charity quilts! Some people just need something to keep warm and won't care if it's a work or art. I can't wait to try it. Thank you!
I was a wanna be sewist, but never really sewed. I bought a Bernina around 2015... but didn't do much with it. I discovered you during the pandemic while my business had to shut down for a couple of months... and this video inspired me! That Ugly Quilt pattern took all the stress away from trying a quilt project... so I did it! Of course, it became a UFO for 3 years... and I'm proud to say that I should get it back from the long-armer next week! Then all I have to do is bind it. I hope to have 2 other projects completed before the end of October at the latest. Thanks for being the inspiration I needed! If possible I'll drop a photo of my "ugly" project. BTW... I think it's lovely.
I don't even quilt, but I love watching your videos! I do sew, and maybe one day I will get brave and try one of your ideas! Thank you for your obvious joy for what you do, and for your genuine personality - I sense only sincerity! Refreshing!
Stephanie Clark the best advice I can give is just do it! I was a garment/home decor sexist but a friend showed me her quilts and I have never looked back! Go for it!♥️👍😎🐝🌷
My mom was making an ugly quilt for charity. She died suddenly. Then a year later, my sister was in a horrific accident. She broke 13 bones and shattered her femur. She really was missing Mom. So I finished that ugly quilt and brought it to my sister. I didn't even wash it. She was so comforted by that ugly thing and she still cherishes it - the last quilt Mom made.
My eyes teared up before I even finished reading what you wrote. I wouldn't have wanted it washed either. Such a beautiful story, I would have had a hard time finishing it but would have been so proud to have done so. I'm certain your sister truly appreciates and loves you for finishing that quilt.
The effort from love and the shaping of the adult you have become would be one of her greatest accomplishments while she was on earth. I have a brother with special needs and my mother died after a prolong heart disease problem. He couldn’t accept she was gone. So I thought, and came up with something to comfort him. I told him to get her one of her dresses and hold it at night when he went to bed. I think it helped a little.
What a wonderful and caring sister you are. God loves you.
What a blessing to have something that Mom handled and left her distinct theramones on. The comfort of wrapping Mom around her must have made her healing process much easier. I drew great comfort from wearing my Mom's jeans after she passed away suddenly.
You did a great job 👍
Your beautiful “UGLY QUILT” inspired me and my quilting buddies!!
I tackled the first one that I made at a retreat and we all loved it so much that we decided to all make Ugly Quilts at our next retreat and we put a spin on it!
We decided to each bring our “ugly’” fabric already cut into squares and trade them. Rules of the trade - take as many squares that you brought. It was so fun to see and use each other’s beautiful “ugly” fabric.
Some of us made big quilts, some of us made small quilts. Some of us did 4 cuts per fabric square and others did more cuts - more cuts make each fabric piece smaller but makes the quilt more varied…
I hope this inspires some more quilters to use up some of their “what am I going to do with this???” fabric.
I was going to post pictures of our quilts but cant figure out how to do it...
How fun!!!
Great video. Great instructions. But your reason for why a WOMBAT are golden words of wisdom. I'm a seamstress, not a quilter. I"ve had an alteration shop for 7 years. The one surprising lesson I've learned is that fabric holds memories like a scent does. Your words may finally get me into quilting. Thank you.
I love "ugly quilts" and do not find them ugly at all! I think its lovely.
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"If you don't like a fabric, you haven't cut it small enough." lol, I'll have to remember this.
Hahahaha!
Bonnie Hunter quote
How many colours or fabric used in ugly quilt pattern
That was my first thought also.
Bonnie Hunter says that all the time.😀
I love your thoughts on why an ugly fabric quilt can truly be a thing of beauty and wonderful memories. Thankyou for the videos you do.
the mrs. here...my ex SIL wanted to learn to quilt. i used my ugly fabric as i knew she'd not last, lol. while finishing it for the car, my sister said she'd take it (site unseen) for her dog getting on their bed. some years later she asked me to repair it. THAT WAS THE UGLIEST QUILT!!! i had forgotten just how ugly! i told her that one was so ugly i'd make her a new one. in a quiet voice as she petted that ugly quilt, she told me, " for nearly 20 yrs every winter this was on my bed, i was covered with your love. when i was feeling down or sick, i was wrapped in your caring. and in those middle-of-the-night rocking a cranky baby, wrapped in this quilt, you were there encouraging me. you don't understand just how special this is". that was 30 yrs ago and that ugly quilt now hangs on a wall rack near her bed, reminding her she is loved (her words). and from other comments, ugly quilts have a special place in our lives.
So very true! My daughter has an ugly quilt covering her bed that was made by my Nana (grandmother) who died when I was 3 years old. My mother has had to repair it a couple of times already but my daughter loves it so much she refuses to give it up for a new one.
Wonderful story- thank you for sharing.
How true. When you think about, because it was ugly, it got used. The main reason to make one.
I have a quilt with ugly upholstery fabric and yo-yos and rick rack from I to Love to you Charlotte by my grandmother. Dad saw that quilt when i was growing up and never read it. One day I showed it to him after we argued and he was driving away to go back home. I stood and pointed to the I, the love, the you, and then Charlotte. His Mom didn't tell him or anyone she loved them, but she wrote it on my dolly quilt made out of purple upholstery fabric and brown cotton. It is an ugly quilt made with love. Dad is gone. He felt a lot better after I pointed to the words as he was about to drive off with Mom. He didn't get out and hug me or say anything. He just shook his head up and down.
@@dianecoverdale2342 That is so true, I just want to display the really pretty ones
Hello Karen,
I love the idea of the ugly quilt becoming precious because of the attached memories. It’s the quilt version of the ugly duckling tale!
Of all the quilts my mom made when she died we all wanted her scrapie quilt. It was made with all our clothes when we were kids. So many memories and more precious than gold
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My mom made a quilt using my brother's tee shirts. What a collection of all his favorite things. She used a cotton with a faded denim print for the backing and binding. She was so proud of it that she entered it the state fair and won a ribbon. It became by brother's joy.
My mum made a couple of them too... unfortunately she's been less sentimental & they were used in the car for the dog! I'm still interested in getting hold of them though.
Excellent! Thank you for sharing. Always learn something from your videos.
Maybe I'm missing something..why would anyone give this a thumbs down??? What a happy fun quilt.
I chose to believe that those are bots 😎
Or maybe fat fingers. 😉 Even when I dislike something, I usually just move on.
Great tips and great ideas! I love your videos. Hope your son gets better soon. xx
Good morning everyone. While I was organizing my fabrics last week , I realized I had fabric in my stash that I would never quilt with. Some of the fabric I hated but most just were no longer working for me. Then I realized that we all have ‘Ugly’ fabric. I hope that you can use these tips. And for those that are interested, my son is doing better. Thank you for all your goods thoughts.
Just Get it Done Quilts wow, when I saw the notification for you video I thought I need to inquire about how your son is doing. Glad to hear he’s doing better.
Thanks for the update on your son. So glad to hear he's doing better. Hope you are well too, and are finding moments of joy and peace.
Oh, and I'm going to use up some fabrics to make a 'wombat' quilt. :)
Thanks for the update, and thanks for the great ideas!
You know, Karen, your videos and tips and strategies are always applicable to other hobbies and efforts as well. I usually find myself sharing them later with other friends who have no intention of quilting but, for instance, have a stash of crochet thread to use up, or are trying to organize scraps in a woodworking shop.
You always make quilting look so simple and easy, very helpful to me. I bought myself a sign which said, "Hang on while I Overthink this!" So I like your motto better, "Just Get It Done!" and have added, "Stop Thinking, Start Doing!" to my own stash of slogans.
OMG...I need that sign...LOL. Thank god I have my timer.
Thanks for this video and update on your son. 💪🏻 my daughter finished her rounds of chemo a couple of weeks ago, she’s doing much better now. Tough on us Parents! She lives overseas, so I can’t be with her at this time - sewing is my happy escape. I appreciate your tips!!
You take the fear out of learning to quilt. I love the idea of a not so precious quilt. So freeing.
Oh my goodness! Finally! A quilter who refers to rows and “columns!” I’m relatively new to this craft but have never understood referring to both the horizontal and vertical directions as rows. It’s just confusing. I wondered why nobody ever referred to the vertical “rows” as columns as they do in an Excel spreadsheet. So, thank you for making sense to me. I was so happy that I had to stop this video smack dab in the middle to write this. Only my second video in and I’m hooked. Subscribed! Edited to add: I’ve been binge-watching your videos and I’m glad to read in this video that your son is doing better.
Gotta have that spreadsheet mentality!! HA!
I have found that Karen makes a WHOLE lotta quilting sense!!! ❤️😀
Us Excel folks are just a different breed I guess because I thought the same thing as she was explaining. I'm very new to this and I have to mentally think and visualize vertical and horizonal but Columns and rows is immediately understood. :)
I'm so old I learned Lotus spreadsheets! And in my opinion, better than Excel....
You might want to check out Jordan Fabrics' videos. She seems to work "linear," in rows and blocks, and always has shortcuts, yet her quilts look complicated. Guaranteed to impress the intended recipient. I Never had the eye for mentally disassembling a quilt into rows until I started watching Donna'a tutorials.
I made an "ugly quilt" from your pattern and leftover scraps from many other quilts I have made. I sent it to a friend, telling her that the fabrics all came from other quilts (one from another quilt I had made her years ago). Just recently I got an email from her husband, who said he has been ill with Covid-19, and is now almost recuperated. He told me the "ugly" quilt had given him hours of entertainment, finding the fabrics that matched, and speculating about all the other quilts I've made. And he said it was snuggly, and could be his hug when his wife and children couldn't hug him. Thank you for this pattern!
Oh wow...what great story. Thanks for sharing
Karen, your "ugly" quilt pattern gave me inspiration! My oldest daughter is recently engaged and I considered making a quilt for their bed as a wedding gift but ... they have 2 dogs that they allow to sleep on the bed. After I watched your video I realized I have leftover cotton remnants from clothes made for her over the years. I found 12 swatches and have a lap size quilt top almost finished, and will give it to her at a shower party - memories from her youth that she can cuddle with, and I don't care if the dogs snuggle in too. Thanks for the idea!
I love it ✋
I don't see an ugly quilt I see a beautiful quilt that was made with love.
I am a beginner sewer, quilter, everything. So when I found your fantastic channel where you bend the rules a bit to make things practical to every day life I fell in love with your channel and your tutorials, methods, tips, etc. You are amazing!! Thank you so much ☺️ for all the amazing tutorials 😍🥰❤️
What a great idea Karen , Thank you !!!
My grandma made everyone quilts when we were wee ones. Amazingly she did them all by hand. She called them crazy quilts. They were always my most favorite quilts of hers. she actually made them out of cotton blouses and tops. Thank you for sharing this. I am not a quilter, I am a person that knows how to sew though. I've always wanted to make crazy quilts for my grandkids. Thank you for the inspiration.
Ms Kat, sure hope you do make quilts for your grands, they will cherish them always. My son is 54 and he still has his from his grandmother. If taken care of they last through generations:)
Hi kat
Love these kind of quilts
I inherited a giant bag of scrap fabrics from my mom about 30 years ago. I used up all the nicest, prettiest pieces in different projects over the years, but some of the fabrics in that bag were absolutely hideous and every time I sorted through those ones I would literally recoil in disgust.
Then at one point I wondered why I was hanging on to all that ugliness and I challenged myself to make something beautiful out of it. I made a scrappy tumbling block wall hanging in which every piece was unique and super ugly.
It turned out so nice that I proudly display it in a prominent place in my home and I get so many complements from most everyone who sees it. Sometimes I would tell them the story behind it and it's a lot of fun to see them get up close, scrutinize the individual components to confirm what I'm saying then watch their mixed reactions of surprise and revulsion. But they always step back again and marvel at how beautiful it is from a distance.
I'm so glad I made that wall hanging - It's one of my favorite quilts. :-)
I’d love to see a photo
Thanks for suggesting using ugly fabrics for practicing Free motion quilting on. Have some really ugly bad color batiks that I have been considering tossing out. Not now! Can't afford to use an outside quilt person. Sewing for over 70 years and didn't even consider this idea. Senior moments!
I participated in an ugly quilt contest, that mine didn't win a prize or commendation - it was sponsored by the local quilt shop. However, I entered it into our local community fair and one my first blue ribbon for this quilt. When I was still working, it fit in my travel suitcase as I had a lot of overnight stays and I wanted my quilt. Then I got hit with bad arthritis and no more work, but I did get a lot of hospital visits and surgeries and the quilt always came with me. I am a nurse and I think to the nurses who saw me with the quilt it gave a topic of conversation as well as seeing me as a human. I sleep under it every night. BTW A lot of those quilt fabrics that you designated 'ugly' I would have loved to have! I love pink! I don't like some colors, but when making a scrap quilt of any kind, it is amazing how those fabrics that you don't quite like can find other scraps that the two of them make a great block. As a quilter there is one thing I don't understand. Why this urge to use up your stash? To me it is like money in the bank for those times when I can't afford to buy fabric. Much of my fabric purchases over the last 4-5 years has been finds at the thrift store. When a fat quarter is selling for a quarter, why pass it by. Someday it will be the exact color/print that I need.
Gail Rodgers I’m so proud of you for winning a ribbon! That’s so neat! I was always too scared to enter anything and now I live in Vegas where the nearest county fair is who knows where- not down at the topless night clubs- lol. But, I thought wouldn’t it be a good idea to create an online fabric trade or place that people could donate to quilters and that if you sign up to the group you’re at least allowed a pick for free. Then, if you had fabric you thought was ugly you could turn it in and pick new (old) fabric that you might love better! I had all this material I gave to savers when I was younger from my grandma (yes, I could kick myself- but I was in college and didn’t have room), I would have much rather donated to a place like that!
What a clever idea! Thanks for sharing😁
Was so happy to see your notification this morning! And that your son is doing better! (I’ll keep the prayers going).
I started quilting about 4 months ago thinking since I know how to sew, how hard could making a quilt be? 🤪right? So I’ve watched countless videos and only subscribed to a few, and you are by far my Favorite! Just so you know you are my new BFINMY ( BF I’ve not met yet). LOVE that your videos are quick and easy to understand. Thank you.
I’ve learned, yes the hard way, that nesting seams for that elusive “perfect” meet up ain’t happnin! So this hospital quilt pattern is a Godsend to me! Plus (huge bonus) I’ll be using up my 5” squares because I’ve got TONs. In the interest of being frugal I bought many different prints and colors from my local thrift store. (BC aka before covid). I just had to deconstruct them all first, as they came in the form of previously been worn shirts, skirts, and pants! After deconstruction I had hubby help to sort into color piles where I found out the pieces that were supposed to be red are brown etc. (never let a colorblind person fabric shop alone). Just a different challenge I will overcome. All of the fabrics have different fiber qualities so I’m hoping this is why my perfectly nested joints are broken. And the reason for 5” squares is I saw several cute patterns requiring charms so I thought I would just sew them up. Thus all my fabrics are now tiny squares. 😆
Note to self: just buy the quilting cottons, from a reputable quilt store, in the first place.
So long story short, I’ll send you a pic of my version of “hospital quilt” once done. Thanks again for your videos!
Melea, Blairsville Georgia
I couldn't believe the challenges when moved to quilting from making clothes. Looking forward to seeing photos
To melea ,,,,Grew up in Blairsville Georgia,,small town USA, mother moved us 40 years ago to find work,now live in Lafayette GA,probably about 2 hours away.
Oh my , I don’t think there was EVER a ugly quilt!! 💖❣️❣️🌹🤩
I have one. The fabric is so busy...It's also a lot of pink !!
I made of of these many years ago after seeing a pattern in a magazine. It used all fruit and vegetable fabrics and was called a picnic quilt. I used novelty scraps and LOVE it! It’s the quilt I keep in my car for spur of the moment picnics, cold soccer games, etc. I was given a fat quarter pack of “ugly but coordinating fabrics”- maybe I’ll throw together one of these for a charity quilt.
I love ugly fabrics. String quilts! Crazy quilts! Yeah baby.
Im only 2 minutes in and already love this! Gift bags! What a great idea to use up some fabric AND my ribbon stash.
I haven’t watched your videos in six months at least I used to watch them regularly and then I stopped mainly because I wasn’t quilting but was crocheting. I don’t know why I stopped because I love your videos. They are informative, entertaining and enlightning. And you always touch my heart with your wisdom. You are right, I wouldn’t use a beautifully made quilt for picnics or table covers or for tent making. But I surely would use an ugly quilt for these things. In fact some of the first quilts I made are grabbed first for camping, kids over night parties, wrapping up a sick child. I’ll keep watching you because you are caring and can lift my spirits so that I feel better when I’m depressed, sad, afraid or angry especially in these times of being secluded a d sequestered. Thanks for putting a smile on my face and joy in my heart. ❤️❤️💚💜💛
Sending ❤️ from my home to yours
Hi from the UK! I've been watching a few of your videos recently, and when I saw this one I immediately clicked on. I've actually made a few 'Ugly' quilts already! We call that pattern a 'Crazy Nine Patch' over here, and I actually have a tip for anyone who wants theirs to 'make sense' as it were. When the blocks are finished, if you lay the first one down and then look not at the very central piece of fabric, but the piece next to it, then that piece is the fabric that will be at the centre of your next block. It means that no fabric will line up next to itself on the blocks beside it, and I've found that it works really well!
Thanks for sharing
like your description. This will help on many layouts, not just this pattern, but ones where you don't want 2 matching fabrics together. Thanks, I put it in my hints notebook.
Thank you! Great tip, which I'll definitely use! 🙃⚘
Love , love, love this.
All of those "ugly" fabrics can sometimes turn out beautiful in a quilt. This was a great video! I use some of my ugly fabric as liners for inside pockets in bags. They are never seen and no one even notices them. Again, great video!
Great idea!
Insides of bags always get dirty somehow....crazy colored and patterned fabric is perfect!
Just came across your channel and love it. My prayers for your son. With love from Ireland.
Just wanted to let you know that you look lovely in this video. I remember you’ve shared some stories of rough times in your life lately, which definitely are not evident here. Thank you for the info, time, and free pattern!
Thank you so much!
Hello Sue
I made one of your quilts a while back and I just fell in love with it, but then I gave it away to a young girl who had juvenile diabetes and I missed it so much I asked my daughter to help me re look up this video so I can make one for myself.. I'm still watching your video and still loving the technique..
You had me at “Ugly Fabrics”! 🥰🥰🤣🤣🤓🤓
LOL
Hello Susan
I have made that crazy 9 patch quilt many times! Years ago, a friend and I were bemoaning all the ugly Christmas fabrics in our stashes. We worked together, cutting squares out of yards and yards of the ugly fabrics (keeping back some longer lengths for borders/bindings), shared our piles for more variety, and each made a king size quilt plus a very large lap quilt. I even sewed pieces of fabric together to make a piece large enough for the backing (my mom had gifted me with all her Christmas fabric, too, and it was REALLY ugly!). It was very satisfying to use up all that fabric, and those quilts come out every year!
I’m doing to do one of those now
Love this. Thank you. Have lots and lots of scrappy leftovers:)
Hello 👋
As a total beginner, I've watched this several times. It's a great place to start for beginners and it doesn't have to be ugly fabric.
This and your video on pre-washing or not has been so useful and practical.
Also, LOVE the fact that you don't spend any time showing us your teapot and lighting candles. You stay 100% on topic.
Right? I love that too. I came for quilting not to watch someones coffee pour.
Just get it done 😂❤🎉🎉
Love this process. Genius
Karen, you put such joy and fun into your ‘making’. A comfort quilt is surely something we can all use in these uncertain days. Off to my fabric stash!
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Karen Brown xx you are so inspiring & a delight to watch, thankyou from Australia
Just finished 3 “ugly” quilts for my husband and two adult sons. Hopefully they will keep them in their vehicles. Thanks for a great way to use up fabric that would never be used. And I must say they are not ugly at all.
Hello Susan
Honestly the eye makes it cohesive once it’s put together. Once the blocks started to look more like a complete block the fabrics didn’t look too bad
Love this video... thanks for the hints & Bonnie Hunt quote.
Good Morning from Texas. Every morning I get my coffee and open my ipad to check up on whats going on in my little world. When I see you have posted a new video, all else must wait. I move to my favorite chair and cozy up for a visit with my friend. When your video ends I say a little prayer for your son. Thank you, Karen for spending your precious time with all of your friends around the world.
Thank you Jean. I feel very special now.
Ditto!
I just stumbled onto this channel today and I am sipping coffee as I read all these wonderful comments. I am not a seasoned sewing person yet, I have accomplished a few things in my last 23 or so years. My mom (rest her soul) was great with the sewing machine. I wish I could have learned from her. She passed when I was just 13 years old. I hope to learn a lot from Karen. 🙏🏼🧵
Your voice is so comforting to listen to. I am a new quilter and this tutorial makes me to do something fun right away.
Thank you so much !
I buy a lot of “ugly fabric” at thrift stores. Now that you’ve put this video out here, I’m sure the picking are going to get harder to find. Thanks for another great idea; you brighten my day, Karen.
I just love watching your videos!! Karen, you consistently make me smile. I learn a lot and laugh a lot too. Thank you! PS...I am I the only one that is brought to tears reading comments from a QUILTING VIDEO?!?!
Nope! x🤗
I made one, it was so much fun!!! First quilt in many years!! I’m making another one for my son and daughter. Thanks for the great idea!
Love your videos
Thank you for sharing that was awesome I love quilts my memo made quilts back when we were real young and I have one of her old quilts
Hi
I absolutely love this block pattern you showed! Soooo cool! I loved your techniques and thanks for sharing your ideas!
I’ve got my share of ugly. Thanks, great video.
I love this! I prefer utilitarian quilts to ones that are too “beautiful” to actually use or wash.
Hi Rebecca
Completely agree
I really enjoyed this video !!!
My ugly cottons are getting a lot of use as masks. I’ve donated several dozen. Due to elastic shortages, I’ve been making ties for my masks. Ugly fabrics are great for that since they are 1/4 inch wide.
I also make T-shirt quilts for customers. I use ugly fabrics as a stabilizing backing for the jersey knit of the t shirts. It saves me so much grief.
This is interesting. I always stabilize the t shirt with fusible interfacing. How do you attach the cotton to the jersey? I want to try this, sounds like it would be a nice weight and way to use extra fabric.
@@catblack4091 that’s what I was wondering
It is amazing to me how many people are touched by something like this... most quilters become so wrapped up in the precision of the hobby that they forget the emotional part of it.... for me that's the most important part... i spend most of my life trying to convince other quilter's to think this way!
Have made this quilt many times using scrap pieces. They always come out beautiful even with ugly material. We call them “Wack and Stack” quilts. From Busselton. Western Australia.
Hello Jennifer
Loved this video so I had to subscribe. Great idea for a hospital quilt and pattern to go with it. It will be great for my guilds community quilt efforts. My mother has been in the hospital a lot in the past and she always wants a quilt because she gets cold. I have one that I take but I’m always nervous about it getting stolen, forgotten or damaged. This will be a grand solution and I can make it to fit a hospital size bed too. Keep the great ideas and videos coming. God Bless you.🤩
This was the first quilt pattern I learned when I took a quilt class ... We started with 17 fat quarters squared up to 18 inches square .... The idea was a project we would actually finished. We did not worry too much about exact seam side it was just sew it up then square it up... Love doing this pattern in mono chromatic fabrics and you are right ... these quilts often become a cherished quilt .
It was one of my first ones too. It's so forgiving
Monochrome or all solids would be cool.
I loved this so much because this is just the kind of quilt that my aunt used to make when I was a child. She made lots of clothes for me, my sisters and my cousins and she had lots of scraps. She would use the scraps to make quilts for us and they were designed to be used. My sisters and I used to lay across those quilts and remember that we had a dress out this fabric and a pair of shorts out of another fabric and so on. I adored those quilts so much and my dear sweet Aunt who made them.
I made three scrap quilts to use to keep myself and wife warm in the cold months while sitting in the family room. 3 other quilts hang on walls, the favorites of friends are the scrap quilts. Part of my attachment to the scrap quilts are the family members who received baby quilts or just gifts. One of the scrap quilts have backing from my mother's stash. The are scraps of fabric and rich with feeling.
How sweet and wonderful lady you are wish can I adopted you like my aunt ❤️🙏
What a good idea. I have been upset that due to Covid 19 I will not be able to be with my grand twins in the nicu. I have. Little time so I will make them each a nicu grandma hospital quilt for them. To have grandma’s love to be with them.
you are a lovely grandma, the twins are blessed. hopefully, they are doing well. many blessings, lovely lady.
samantha irish Thanks, yes they doing good and the quilts gave me peace and Willow and Lexie warmth.
the mrs. here...oh mz. cindy! i pray you are now enjoying those precious babies. we had a new one in april...in another state. its so hard not being there. i'm sure those quilts will be cherished for yrs to come. so happy for you! hugs!
Wonderful way to use ugly fabric and great for charity quilts. ❤️🙏🏼
Thanks Karen, love your ugly quilt pattern. I have a lot of FQ's I got when I first started quilting that I have to shake my head at an wonder what the heck I was thinking. They will make some great give away quilts.
I think that pink flower fabric was purchased in my first year too. You just don't know.
The hospital idea is so lovely! :-)
I just made one for a cousin who is going through chemo...they make a difference
Just Get it Done Quilts I hope he gets well soon!
I made an "ugly" quilt for my sister-in-law. She takes it to her grandchildren's wrestling matches, dance competitions, soccer games and ball games. No matter where she goes that "ugly" and imperfect quilt gets so many compliments. I have no doubt by the time her grandchildren have grown up it will be a treasured memory.
✋Thanks for sharing
There is no such thing as a bad quilt as long as the fabric is mostly cotton. Because it can be over-dyed if the colors don't work for the user. And everyone likes a handmade quilt. It's just cozy!!
My mum made a couple of patchwork bed covers out of material scraps when I was a kid. They now live on the backseat of her car for the dog. That actually annoyed me as they material used represented my childhood as it outlasted the clothes the I'd worn that the scraps came from!
Hi Linda
@@lynettepettitt655 hello how are you doing my friend
I have spent the whole morning, on a Saturday, - when I should be doing budget, groceries and laundry - becoming acquainted with your content. I am a new instant fan. I love the spirit of your recordings. Look out Jenny Doan. There's a new sheriff in town. haha. Seriously, you've done a great job and inspire me to not be intimidated to move forward with my own aspirations.
I used your idea and thought I was making an ugly quilt. I didn’t really love any of the fabrics but now that it’s done I really think it’s pretty 💕 I’m using it for the furbabies
I made this quilttop & just got a long arm. I can’t wait to finish!
Hello Linda
Dear Karen, I just finished my first „ugly“ quilt and it turned out sooo pretty! My 15 year old niece is a huge Christmas fan, so I took 20 different Christmas fabrics in this new kind of „candy“ colors and it looks modern but festive too. Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial 💕 Lots of love from Germany
If I had that many fabric pieces, I would be in heaven……what a neat idea!
What a brilliant quilt! And the idea that if it's not precious it'll get used more is brilliant, too. Thank you!
I just saw this video and I can't wait to see more. I really enjoyed this 'ugly' quilt. Thanks
I have been “gifted “ lots of fabrics for mask making and made over 1500 to give away during the age of COVID. I have too much left and will use it for this quilt for all of the reasons that you state to do it. Thanks for this video
And 2021 , AGE IF COVID is STILL RAGING ! Will take at LEAST 1 year or MORE , from 2021 , to DRASTICALLY SLOW DOWN , IF ENOUGH people Vaccinate !
Keep SEWING !
Hi Doreen
Jenny, I love watching your videos. You make me smile and i always learn something new. I hope you are well, and your son is getting stronger...
Hello Nancy
Using wrong side of fabric - my mother could not always get the right tone for her applique but if she turned it to the wrong side it calmed down. Check it out
Hello Michelle
Karen, you are so smart. My head still spinning from your diagonal cut quilt demo.
Oh MAN! Now I wish I had a stash of ugly fabric!! As always, thanks for the permission to be less than perfect. I'll work on that today.
LOL
@Lau Lau Pipling Absolutely GREAT idea Lau Lau!
you are a pleasure to listen too! keep up the good work.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I was feeling a little guilty using up “ugly” fabric for the face masks.... LOL. And I’ve made bags from my ugly fabric.... thus being said and feeling more like friends who think alike, I can not wait to make an ugly quilt! I’ve been avoiding my current quilt project because it’s more difficult than anticipated. Love ALL your suggestions on what to do with them. Will definitely be incorporating using the “uglies” before starting a quilt. Especially when it’s switching from too much baking back to quilting..... 😉
👍 the quilt is quick and easy too
Adorable story
As a beginner its all I need
I was worried when you posted your "update" that we weren't going to be seeing you for a while , but then in short order you posted the Color Exercises (empowering!) And now this one on ugly fabric. Delighful! Keep up the good work. There is no other quilting channel like yours. It really is about giving strategies on making the quilt that I want to make.
Thank you so much 😊
I agree.... this quilting channel is for real people facing real issues, like ugly fabrics 😊
Rebecca is right - i learn so much watching you videos. And thank you for being real - none of us have perfect lives.
I don't think these are ugly fabrics because when they are put together they make a beautiful quilt. I love these types of quilts. I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
I just love your tutorials. More than the technique, though, I love your stories. Thanks for being real and bringing so much creativity to my life!
You are so welcome! Glad you are here too
Dido
Going thru phone and found you. Very cool and will check back often
I love this and love your attitude and your wonderful tips. Thank you,
😊 thank you
Hello Rebecca
👍Thank you so much for all of these ideas and the "ugly" quilt pattern. I love the freedom to put fabric together that doesn't have to fit the rules. I am finishing a quilt that my grand son helped to sew. I chose to make the blocks for his quilt 10" x 20" for easy piecing and quick sew, as we only had a few hours to work together on the quilt. He is nine years old and loves to sew. He even did some quilting on my Grace quilt frame. I finished the quilting today. Tomorrow I'll trim and bind it. After making a label, I'll send it off to him. I know he will enjoy his new quilt that he sewed himself. Thank you for the great video. God bless.
Before you even said it my thought was "a quilt for my front porch!!" "beach quilt" "throw it on the grass quilt" Thanks I love it!!!
Hello Janice
Your ugly quilt is beautiful!!!!!
The way you describe the comfort factor and logic of having a non-precious quilt makes me want to make one right now! And I've never quilted before! And may I say the quilt from "ugly" fabric is not a bit ugly; thanks for this inspiration. 🙂
This would be such a great technique for charity quilts! Some people just need something to keep warm and won't care if it's a work or art. I can't wait to try it. Thank you!
Brilliant tutorial as always, I hope your son is doing better! Much love from Australia
Thank you...and he is finally doing better
I was a wanna be sewist, but never really sewed. I bought a Bernina around 2015... but didn't do much with it. I discovered you during the pandemic while my business had to shut down for a couple of months... and this video inspired me! That Ugly Quilt pattern took all the stress away from trying a quilt project... so I did it! Of course, it became a UFO for 3 years... and I'm proud to say that I should get it back from the long-armer next week! Then all I have to do is bind it. I hope to have 2 other projects completed before the end of October at the latest. Thanks for being the inspiration I needed! If possible I'll drop a photo of my "ugly" project. BTW... I think it's lovely.
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Excellent!!! I "need" to make an ugly quilt!!!😂
Thank you for a great tutorial.
I don't even quilt, but I love watching your videos! I do sew, and maybe one day I will get brave and try one of your ideas! Thank you for your obvious joy for what you do, and for your genuine personality - I sense only sincerity! Refreshing!
Stephanie Clark the best advice I can give is just do it! I was a garment/home decor sexist but a friend showed me her quilts and I have never looked back!
Go for it!♥️👍😎🐝🌷
If you do any of my patterns this is the one to try. I'm sure you have a ton of scrap pieces and this is so forgiving
YIKES!! SEWIST not sexist, ugh autocorrect!😂
@@villagesteader3552 I get it! I have found so many auto correct nonsensical changes! And some embarrassing too!
@@JustGetitDoneQuilts It does look forgiving - I like the whimsy of the piece shapes!