This easy-to-use cookbook is packed with their simple and elegant recipes. Many other quilters develop recipes and invent shortcuts to decrease food preparation time, freeing themselves to spend more time by their quilt frames and sewing machines. Many quilters are devoted homemakers who enjoy cooking almost as much as quilting. More than 900 favorite recipes from quilters across North America From Ham Loaf to Peach Stuffed Chicken Breasts, from Sourdough Dinner Rolls to Raisin Bran Muffins, from Cranberry Coffee Cake to Oatmeal Brownies, from Beef and Lentil Salad to Baked Onion Soup, and from Pineapple Bread Pudding to Fudge Pie, this wonderful collection mirrors the lives of quilters far and wide.The book also includes actual food recipes too – 8 favorite dessert recipes passed down through Jen’s family. The book also includes all templates at scale (no need to resize) so that you also have the option to make your own. To see all of the quilts and projects from the book, you can check out the photos on the Quilt Recipes Amazon listing.Īcrylic templates are available for 6 of the projects in the book are sold separately. Other quilts – like this one called Diamond Exchange – require template cutting and can be pieced by machine or hand. Some of the quilt patterns – like this one called Aunt Sukey’s – are written for rotary cutting and machine piecing. This hardcover book contains 12 new quilt patterns in Jen’s eclectic, scrappy style. Quilt Recipes is a gorgeous and inspiring hardcover book filled with scrappy quilt patterns and beautiful lifestyle photography, as you’d totally expect from Jen. I’m totally excited about hand-piecing this quilt! (And to be honest, it’s probably a little easier to hand piece this block as there are multiple Y-seams, but still totally doable by machine if you’re comfortable with machine-piecing y-seams.) Meet Quilt Recipes by Jen Kingwell Like how my stripes match up in the block above?! Nothing I did purposely – totally a happy accident. The acrylic templates make it really easy to trace and cut accurate pieces as well as holes for marking the ¼″ seam allowances and intersections. And much less intimidating than you’d think. It has been surprisingly soothing to sit and hand-piece these quilt blocks. (How has it been that long?!) Jen’s class was a great reminder of how relaxing and enjoyable the process can be. The next time I hand-pieced was taking a class from Jen at the Fat Quarterly Retreat 7 (gulp!) years ago. In my typical ‘hurry up and get stuff done’ mentality, I’ll admit that hand-piecing again seemed a bit intimidating. After that I was excited to learn how to piece by machine as it seemed to be a lot faster. The first quilt blocks I’d ever made were hand-pieced when my mom taught me as a 12 year old. I hadn’t hand-pieced any quilt blocks (besides English Paper Piecing or applique) for ages and I’m really excited to give it a go again. Using the acrylic templates for this quilt, I prepped a couple blocks to hand-piece during my travels. It’s all a little bit outside my typical color range, but I’m pretty excited about where this is going! Hand-piecing a quilt block I don’t sew – or even buy – a lot of purples, but somehow these prints had climbed into my sash – mostly as parts of other bundles and they fit just perfectly. I’m a little surprised at my self with the purple inclusion. I’ve also been in the mood to work with more pastels and washed-out colors lately. This is the fabric pull that resulted – a scrappy Jen-Kingwell-inspired palette. A scrappy fabric pull for a scrappy quilt Over the past weeks I’ve been in the process of moving two daughters to college in different parts of the country – which means no time at my machine, but plenty of time on the road for some hand stitching and decided to pull some fabric and cut pieces to make a few of these blocks while sitting during travel times. Summer has been full and I’m finally just getting to it. I was immediately smitten with the Winki Stars quilt and have been itching to find a moment to play with the blocks. I was so excited to get a look at her latest patterns and source of creative inspiration. Jen’s scrappy style always inspires me – her quilts are just amazing. Earlier this summer Jen Kingwell sent me a copy of her beautiful new book, Quilt Recipes, as well as templates for some of the patterns. I’ve started a scrappy new project and I’m pretty smitten.
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