I finished up the blocks for the Threadheads Bee today. Chris requested these scrappy blocks from Aneela’s tutorial.   She sent each of us a scrap pack for one and then asked us to make a second from our own fabrics. I was glad I got PINK because I have lots of that in my stash!   […]

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  • Jennifer @ Ellison Lane Quilts

    They look great Linds! 🙂 Pink is fun and I love the E!ReplyCancel

  • Flying Blind

    These are lovely (and be warned, addictive!). This weekend I am mostly working on keeping my sanity, at the beginning of the school holidays!ReplyCancel

I’m honored to have a trunk show today over at Patchwork Posse,   I love this idea! I’ve never been to a quilt trunk show in person, but I think the virtual ones can be just as fun. Go take a visit and look through some of the past ones too, lots of good stuff […]

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  • Pétra

    What a fun idea! I am off to check it out.ReplyCancel

  • rosa

    That`s sounds amazing!!ReplyCancel

  • Patti

    Lindsey! Your virtual trunk show was amazing! I haven’t been to one in person either, but this is the next best thing! Thanks for sharing with us.ReplyCancel

Hi there!  Today I’m going to give you the basics to make an 8×8 quilted potholder that has a modernized pinwheel design. Each pinwheel block  is foundation pieced and then all 12 are sewn together.   If you’ve never foundation pieced, don’t be intimidated!  This is a great tutorial on how to do it and the […]

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  • Carla G

    What a cool potholder! Thanks for the tutorial! I am subscribed to your blog via email, but just signed up in gfc…so I don’t know if I’m considered a new or old follower… Thanks for the great giveaway! I would like to make a potholder in bright colors…maybe reds, aquas and grey! Thanks for a chance to win! 🙂ReplyCancel

  • Maeve

    Thanks so much for the tute! I LOVE this potholder, and I guess the riot of color makes it even better. I would use oranges, purples and white for my 1st potholder (for granddaughter, graduate of Clemson Univ.); peaches and creams and greens for the 2nd one (mine, all mine!); echino fabs for the 3rd one; Christmas colors for the 4th one; all Japanese fabs for the 5th one; and just a wild potpourri of scraps (like Kaffe, Amy, Joel, etc.) for the 6th one. I really plan to get going on this pattern, it is a winner! I just signed up last week, BTW.ReplyCancel

  • lynn

    thanks for the tutorial-i think i can do this = yay! i’m a current follower and i’d choose aqua/red or any greens. thanks!ReplyCancel

  • Gill

    Thank you for a great tutorial!
    I’m a current follower via email!)
    I’d use grey with orange or yellow or aqua!!
    Thanks!ReplyCancel

  • kels1287

    What a great tutorial- thank you! I’m already a follower via google reader 🙂 I’d make one with green, grey and yellow!ReplyCancel

  • Toni

    I know what I’m doing for Christmas Gifts! Very cute!

    And I’m a new follower, and would use… umm.. a mish mash of colors. That wasn’t helpful, was it? How’s about greens and purples and blues?ReplyCancel

  • Jennifer Rossi

    Hmmm…I might make this in grays and purples, since those are my kitchen colors…maybe with a pop of orange to make it fun! (I still want to raid your fabric stash! GORGEOUS!) These will make great Christmas gifts…thanks for the tutorial!

    I’ve been following your blog since we “met” in the Threadheads bee! ;0)ReplyCancel

  • Pat V.

    I do love the colors in your potholder, so cheerful. I’m thinking I’ll make some Christmas-y ones in green, red and gold.ReplyCancel

  • Megan

    I’m already a follower via email. And I would love something in Blues please and thanks. 🙂ReplyCancel

  • charlotte @ twelfthzodiac

    You know what’s funny? At the start of the tut, I took out my crackberry, went to my quilt shop list & added ‘insulbrite’ to it. Winning some would be better! 🙂 I would probably make a potholder in…hmmm. I can’t decide. Darker fabrics that wouldn’t show the messiness as easily between washings.
    I just recently added your blog to my reading list in Blogger… is that the same as ‘following’? If not, I will try & figure out the proper way & I guess I am new!ReplyCancel

  • Alli

    I think I’d make one with medium gray and aqua prints… hopefully that would be cheery while still hiding stains. 😀 Thanks for the chance to win (I’m a current follower)!ReplyCancel

  • Sara

    I’m a current follower 🙂

    I’d make one for my kitchen in varying shades of red and green to match my kitchen.ReplyCancel

  • VickiT

    Fabulous tutorial. Thank you so much. I am already a follower via email. I would use purples and blue fabrics with possibly some red mixed in.ReplyCancel

  • Barbara

    I am already a follower……and I would use greens and browns.
    Great tutorial!!ReplyCancel

  • lindsay

    Sweet potholders! I’m a current follower 🙂ReplyCancel

  • Sallie

    I’m a current follower. I’d use reds and blacks. Thanks for the giveaways!ReplyCancel

  • Mary Jo

    I am a follower of your blog on bloglines and I love your blog. Thanks for a great tutorial. I would use mustard, grey and or aqua, but I love all colors.
    ThanksReplyCancel

  • rosa

    I follow you by email.Thanks for the tutorial,I love paper piecing.
    I`d love use aqua and brown.Thanks !!ReplyCancel

  • Lori Ginsberg

    I am a new follower!!! I love your potholder tutorial. What a great Christmas gift idea. I love fabrics with a vintagey feel. I a giving my kitchen a makeover and my colors are yellow, red, white and aqua.ReplyCancel

  • Flying Blind

    I’m an old follower!!
    I think light blues and bright oranges would go well in my kitchen xxReplyCancel

  • Patti

    Love the pinwheel potholder! I just finished my first (successful) paper pieced project, so I can hardly wait to try this. I am an avid follower via Reader. Thanks for the opportunity to win.ReplyCancel

  • Tricia C.

    I just subscribed to your blog after your post on Ellison Lane. Thanks so much for the tutorial and the giveaway!ReplyCancel

  • lee

    I am a new subscriber through google reader. I would love to make some of these for my daughter – yellows/blues/greens – thanks very much!ReplyCancel

  • Andrea C L

    grey and yellow! i have been following you 🙂ReplyCancel

  • Elizabeth McDonald

    I am a new follower (with Google Reader) and like to use bright colors in my kitchen!ReplyCancel

  • Emma B.

    I definitely want to give this a try! I’m already a follower! I think I would start with an aqua/red combo.ReplyCancel

  • Jen

    Cute potholder! I really want to give this a try in gray, blue and yellow! I am already a follower.ReplyCancel

  • Penny

    Your tutorial is the answer to my search for a great potholder. CHARMING.ReplyCancel

  • Pétra

    Thank you for the great tutorial!! I have been wanting to try pinwheels and this is a great way to get started. I have been a follower love your blog!ReplyCancel

  • Florence

    Thank you for the tutorial ! I would like to make some of these for Christmas gift so green and red !
    I just add your blog to my reader !ReplyCancel

  • grace

    What a sweet sew..it looks like a treat to sew and use..thanks for being so thoughtful in your giveaway!ReplyCancel

  • Hueisei

    I am a new follower! I would love purple and pink 🙂ReplyCancel

  • montse

    I was already a follower (i receive you mails). Love the modern pinwheels and thanks for thinking about us international readers. Thanks!ReplyCancel

  • Jessica W.

    I would use red green and silver for a christmas gift!!! Those are really cute, thanks for the tutorialReplyCancel

  • Trunk Show Tuesday at Patchwork Posse | LRstitched :: a journal of stitches

    […] Skip to content HomeAbout Me.Featured.Life’s To-do.Tutorials. ← Pinwheel Potholder :: Tutorial + Giveaway October 18, 2011 · 10:18 am ↓ Jump to […]ReplyCancel

  • Cecillia

    I’d love to make one with blue, green and grey. Great tutorial! Thanks for the giveaway. 🙂ReplyCancel

  • Debb Lou

    Thanks for the tutorial … I am a subscriber … thanksReplyCancel

  • Charity Reesor

    I just signed up to follow you by e-mail. Thanks for thereat tutorial! These are going to make great Christmas gifts! I love the colors of the pinwheel potholder the most 😉ReplyCancel

    • Charity Reesor

      Oops! Typo.. The great tutorial 😉ReplyCancel

  • Heather

    I’m a current follower and I would use fall colours because those are the colours that would best match my kitchen. But honestly, I’m not too worried about being “matchy matchy” in my house. We’re a little more eclectic by nature so any pleasing colour combinations work for me. I’m a scrappy dream!ReplyCancel

  • tusen

    Looks cool, thank you for the tutorial. I’m your current follower 😉
    I love various colour combinations, so it can be orange/yellow and aqua (or grey), brown and blue or orange and purple/violet and yellow…ReplyCancel

  • Jqluo

    Loves blue and brown.. I am an international reader! I signed up the newsletter!ReplyCancel

  • Darcy Childress

    Lindsey those are great and you made them look easy with the tutorial! I want the one you’ve already made so I just can hang it up and admire it 😉ReplyCancel

  • Mitzi

    Oh, Lindsey – you just make that look too easy! Thanks for such a great tutorial. I’m going to give those a try! I’m so into any shade of purple these days – from plum to lilac! love!ReplyCancel

  • Dawn

    I am a new follower, I would use Red/Black in my kitchen. thanks for the great tutorial. I love making pot holders but hate getting the pretty ones dirty.ReplyCancel

  • Sharon

    I’ll have to give this a try. I am always whipping together a potholder for myself or my daughter and they look so cute just hanging around the kitchen, but I do use them. Would love to win — thanks for the chance.ReplyCancel

  • Karen O

    I am a new follower, and love this tutorial. I am a newer quilter, and love pinwheel blocks in all forms. Very fun to see a new style.ReplyCancel

  • Beth T.

    I’m a follower (and a fan). Our kitchen is in cheery colors (reds, blues, yellows, with a dash of lime green and orange for my vibrant-loving sweetheart thrown in), so I’d probably do something in that wide range. Thanks for the great tutorial; I was just thinking about making pot holders and you may have given me the push I needed.ReplyCancel

  • Kell

    Thanks for the tutorial! I’ve been wanting to make some potholders for our kitchen. So I would say anything in yellows & greens or that’s a good match with the two. I’m a current follower through Google Reader.

    Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyCancel

  • Winner, Winner! | LRstitched :: a journal of stitches

    […] winner of a potholder kit from current followers is :: kels1287 October 17, 2011 at 1:43 pm (Edit) What a great tutorial- thank you! I’m already a follower via google reader I’d make one […]ReplyCancel

  • Annette J

    Thank you for the tutorial I’m going to make one for my dil who is always getting her fingers burned.ReplyCancel

  • Carol greig

    Hi I am a new follower. I would use people’s and greens. I love your Dresden pattern. Is that available somewhere?ReplyCancel

  • Ali M

    So cool! I actually also want to make a mini pinwheel to cover a 3″ mini canvas. Potholder? For my kitchen I’d want turquoises, greens, silver (wait is there silver fabric? not really enough…must get my head out of the clouds!)ReplyCancel

  • Cristin

    I’m a new follower – via email! LOVE this paper pieced pattern – I may try it for a Christmas Table Runner or two 🙂
    If I had to choose a pot holder color, it would be lime and aqua – wierd I know!ReplyCancel

  • Linda

    I have been following you. I would like greens , particularly lime green for a potholder. Happy new year!ReplyCancel

  • Judy Misener

    Hi Lindsey,
    I’m a new follower and look forward to my new adventure! Thanks.ReplyCancel

  • Cathy Stone

    I just discovered you and love how you make things simpler.!I cant wait to make the potholder.. fabric is calling…ReplyCancel

  • Friday Favorites – Winter Sewing Patterns | Mouse in my Pocket

    […] And I also love the potholders you can slide your hands into, like this one from LR Stitched. […]ReplyCancel

I’m excited to have a little feature over at Ellison Lane Quilts today.   We had a fun Q & A! If you’re visiting from her website, hello!    I hope you’ll consider hanging around. If you’ve never visited Jennifer’s blog, head on over!  She’s starting a blog hop for making handmade gifts for Christmas complete with […]

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  • Flying Blind

    Yay for us Followers!
    Great interview xReplyCancel

  • Jennifer @ Ellison Lane Quilts

    Loved spotlighting you my friend! 🙂 Thanks for the chance to interview you. Hope you guys have a great weekend!
    xoReplyCancel

  • anna

    i love the idea of the follower spotlight. so funReplyCancel

  • h2ogirl

    Love it. . I adore you two!ReplyCancel

  • Mitzi

    Girl – you are all over the quilting blogosphere these days! So happy for you! Your Moda tutorial is fantastic! Excited to see what else you’re up to.ReplyCancel

I mentioned yesterday that my family from Texas had brought along a little treasure for me.   A 9+ foot treasure! It’s part of an old quilting frame that belonged to my Great Grandmother.    My aunt has been keeping the two remaining boards. My Great Grandmother was a quilter as is my Aunt.  When she found […]

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  • Shayla Sharp

    Maybe you could find a wood worker who could create a quilt hanger out of it for your wall. That’s really cool to have a piece of your heritage like that.ReplyCancel

  • Pétra

    I like it leaning against the wall like a piece of art. You could hang it as well. How amazing to have a piece of your families history!!ReplyCancel

  • Nissi

    How amazing to have that keepsake family history!! SO cool! And your quilt got my vote…and would of even if I didn’t know who you were. Yours was totally the coolest 😉ReplyCancel

  • Pat

    A quilt hanger would get my vote. You may even be able to get 2 or 3 out of that board. I’ve quilted on frames like that and we’ve thumb tacked the quilt down to the board to hold it taut.ReplyCancel

  • Sharrieboberry

    Have it running above your curtains–a type of quilting cornice and quilt art. 🙂ReplyCancel

  • annabelle

    What a wonderful piece of family history and I say hang it as well. I would let it rest on pegs (simple wooden pegs) then you could easily take it down to show someone. I would use some twine and clothes pins attached to the pegs to create a place to hang quilt blocks as art or anything that inspiries you.ReplyCancel

  • Karen E.

    lindsey, I am old enough to remember this type of quilt frame hanging from the ceiling at my Great grandmas. I have the remains of the frame, in a zillion pieces and don’t know what I will do with it either. I thought of calling our local museum and offering it to them. Anyway, you would roll the backing the quilt around the wood and tack it on to have the backing taut (taunt?) as you did your hand quilting. At one time, she may have rolled excess fabric on these and then safety pinned the backing to that fabric so the backing wouldn’t rip. Yes, they would pull it up to the ceiling and out of the way when not being used….can you imagine if we could do that in our sewing rooms today/?? just pull up the ironing board, the machine, whatever and get on with business ….Ha!ReplyCancel

    • LindseyR

      That would be fabulous, instant disappearing mess! As long as you didn’t look up!

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  • Barbara

    Lindsey,
    I have three quilt frames…..one was my grandmothers, one my mothers ( baby quilt size boards) and then I inherited my mother-in-laws frame …I was the only daughter- in- law that quilted.
    Two of the frames are being used as quilt hangers and the baby frames are in a closet. My hubby made me brackets that have a large hole in them that the frame boards fit into and then a quilt can be laid over them. Makes a different hanger and one that has alot of history too. There are brackets at Lowes and Home Depot that would work for your one board…..I love being able to hang my grandmothers quilts on her frame hanger. BarbReplyCancel

  • patchworkposse

    hang it on the wall the long way and temp. pin a hanging quilt from it. love it!ReplyCancel

  • Mitzi

    My grandmother use to hang her quilts exactly like that and I have all 4 of her boards in my attic just waiting for me to do something with them. I keep thinking I will make a special quilt to pay honor to my grandma and put the frames around it and hang it somewhere in my house. I need to get on that!ReplyCancel

    • LindseyR

      That would be so special to make a quilt to honor her! I do think I want to use it as a quilt hanger. Wish I had the others!

      ReplyCancel

  • max

    I’ve never come across a quilt hanger before, the patina on it is beautiful and what an heirloom with that history-wow!ReplyCancel

  • pam

    I have an old quilting frame like that with the wooden pegs was my grandmothersReplyCancel

  • Eric Inman

    I have 3 of these boards very similar to the one you show in the picture. I was doing a google search to find out more about them: value, scarcity, market, etc. Are you aware of any further resources to help in my inquiry? I’m certain that my grandmother would want someone that has a passion for collecting such things to have them in their collection. I’ll post pictures on my instagram if you could take a look.ReplyCancel

  • Chris Storm

    Hi Lindsey,

    I’m not a quilter. But my Grandma was. I remember she would have her frame up
    in her house. Her living room was so small there was no where to put a chair for
    her to work on her quilts and she would stand up and work on her quilt. We would
    have to crawl underneath or walk on the furniture around it to get to the other
    side of the room. The room was very small. She lived in Saginaw, Michigan. like one
    of your pictures but those ladies were using it outside.
    She also had a quilting frame that has nails in it. It was used to hold the batting in
    place and tight while she quilted, or the quilt in place while she worked on it.
    My Grandma has passed and I have her frame with the nails in it. I would like to
    donate it to a Quilting Museum. Do you have any suggestions where I could contact
    someone about donating it. Please let me know. Thank you for your time
    Chris StormReplyCancel

    • admin

      Hey Chris! Thank you so much for sharing her story. I’m sorry for the loss of your Grandma. A great option since she lived in Michigan would be the Great Lakes Quilt Center located inside the Michigan State University Museum. Here is a contact email: msum.mtap@gmail.com

      Let me know if you are able to get it donated, that would so exciting!ReplyCancel
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