Big Stitch Hand Quilting Series 1 of 4 [A Hand Quilted Trunk Show] 

Thank you for stopping by! Have you tried hand quilting? Is it on your bucket list to try? Or maybe you are already a proficient hand quilter. Leave me a comment and let me know!

I prefer hand quilting and I am glad you are doing this series.

How lucky you are to have such a beautiful memory of your family and quilting. I love your quilt with the ines.

Your mother does lovely hand quilting. Those quilts you made together are precious. Thanks for sharing those. I have never hand quilted, but now you have me interested. 😊

Your first quilt immediately brought tears to my eyes. It is absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

Corey - yes your maple leaf counts! As always sew excited for this series to continue. Love watching your videos and it has to be tough feeling like your talking to yourself but you do a great job - I always feel like your talking to me. Lol. And several thousands other people. Being an Ohio girl myself- I initially felt an extra connection however as I continued to follow your journey with fabric designing and patterns - I have become so engrossed , involved and in awe of the way your mind works and the talent you continue to put out for the quilting community. Yes- your mom is a rock star and her hand quilting is amazing and beautiful. Lady you are definitely cut from the same cloth as your momma 💕. You are your own rock star and I as well as many others are sew appreciative of your commitment and dedication of creating, designing and sharing your talents with the quilting community. Thank you just doesn’t seem to express the appreciation enough 🥰😘

Thank you, I just adore your you tube content. I understand the hand quilting with Grandmother and Mother in-law.

These are wonderful, beautiful, and your emotional enthusiasm is heart-warming. I would try this some day. 😊

Your mom sounds awesome! What a treasure!

So refreshing to have a hand quilting video!

I am so happy to watch this video. Hand quilting is on my bucket list. I want to embellish my quilts with big stitch quilting. Thanks Corey!

I love hand quilting! My grandma who I learned from was a purist and believed “real” quilts were all hand pieced and hand quilted. Fast forward to today and now I only hand quilt very special quilts for my immediate family.

Thanks you for sharing your handquilting quilts. I'm from France and most quilting is by hand. Take care

I live in Gettysburg and I am a 4th generation quilter! I am loving your videos!

I am soooo in. I've been wanting to try hand quilting for so long and looking at your families quilts (oh my so beautiful) my yearning has been peaked again. Sign me up please 😁.

Oh my goodness! What a talent your mother has. Wonderful memories in quilts. My Grandmother and Aunts hand quilted. Thank you!

This is an awesome video, so nostalgic. Brings back so many memories for me as a child as well.

I can’t wait! Learning how to hand quilt has been on my bucket list.

Great video!! I haven’t tried hand quilting yet, although I would like to learn. You have so many beautiful quilts with your mom’s hand quilting them which I’m sure are treasures! I haven’t quilted a long time probably around 5 years so I’m looking forward to this series!! 😍

Honestly, that may be your "first hand-quilted quilt", but not the first quilt YOU hand quilted. It's beautiful, I love the colors, and your Mom did an awesome job. I have tried hand-quilting a couple of times, but I'm not a very patient person. I want it NOW, so I can move on to the next project. Life's too short to spend a year on one project. Can't wait to watch this series. I've been looking at my latest Twin quilt, for a year, and have finally, this week finished it. I'm not happy, but it's done, and that was MACHINE quilted.

Hooray! I am very excited for the chance to learn more about hand quilting. I have hand quilted a couple quilts and look forward to quilting more! My grandma was a beautiful hand quilter and I wished I would of taken more time to learn from her when I had the chance, but then again I did learn so much from her! 💞 Thank you for opportunity to learn from you!💗

such a great showing for hand quilting. When my daddy was little, he grew up on a farm. And winters were hard, so there was a lot of quilting going on. His job was to be under the quilt and he would push the needle back up to the quilter (usually my great grandma). He loved it. And it was almost like he was in a tent. :)

Your first quilt is your first quilt, it just happens to be a project with more than one sewer/quilter. You mother’s support in participating in your projects reminds me of my mother. Isn’t it the best feeling?

Thank you Corey for these videos!! Please bind your first quilt, it’s beautiful!!!

Just getting into big stitch quilting, I have never heard of the sew together bag, this will be my next project. Thankyou, looking forward to a new adventure. Your enthusiasm is infectious.

Love all your quilts. My mom started quilting when they use templates too. So cool you have quilts that your family has worked on together. Now that my mom is elderly, we sometimes work on a quilt she's making together. She'll piece and I finish them up! Lancaster has been a fun day trip for us over the years..whether with mom, a friend or the hubby and grandkids...its always a delightful day! I always admire the hand quilting I see, but I could never do that....instead I tried the big stitch quilting also. It's soo relaxing and I love the look of it! Happy Quilting!

Thank you for this series Corey!!! I'm so excited to learn more about hand quilting!! What a treasure for you to have the quilts that your Mom has hand quilted for you!! WOW!!! Everything is just sooo beautiful!!!

I am so thrilled I saw this utube and am very excited to try hand quilting!! Can’t wait to see the next episode! Your quilts/small projects are beautiful and cute and will make our cabin so pretty! I also loved hearing about your journey and the family quilting times. You are so blessed to have been part of that!

I hand wilted my very first quilt. It was a sampler that I made 33 years ago! I’m looking forward to doing this again!

Definitely your first designed quilt.

Yes..such a beautiful applique and hand quilting

I liked hearing that your uncles quilted too! 😊 Hand quilting is so relaxing and enjoyable. God bless your Mom, her work is beautiful! ❤

Thank you! This was wonderful! I hand Quilted a few quilts and some pillows when I first started quilting years and years ago.(I am now 82. )I had forgotten how nice the hand quilting could look. So thank you very much for these videos. I am so looking forward to the rest and am looking forward to trying it again.

I grew up in Lancaster County. My neighbors were Mennonites and very good quilters. They had quilting bees and allowed me as a five-year old to “help” quilt. I remember their big frame taking up most of their living room. Lots of fun.

I haven't done hand stitching for a long time. Can't wait for future videos.

So many beautiful quilts thank you for sharing

Thank you for this new serie, your quilts are beautiful ! I only machine quilt small quilts. I have hand quilted all my other quilts until now, the biggest was 80x100. I like " normal" and big stitch quilting.

Thank you for sharing your hand quilting experience and the wonderful memories you have. Definitely a labor of love in each quilt. I am looking forward to the next video.

I very excited to see information on hand quilting

Perfect timing! I got a project box that has a yo yo in the middle of each block and I was thinking Hand quilting it might be my winter project!🤩💕

Beautiful love maple leaves 🍁 great and love that it is your first quilt ♥️greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪♥️

Beautiful quilts. Can’t wait for this series.

Beautiful quilts, and beautiful hand quilting. I enjoy hand piecing my quilts.(Beth Pippin)

Thanks for video. Your quilts are beautiful. I have done hand quilting when I first started but now I quilt on my domestic machine

Great tutorial and I loved hearing all about your journey! How lucky you are to have quilts in your family history and thank you for sharing!

What a wonderful video Corey! I enjoyed it very much!

I love big stitch quilting with Perle cotton. I have done several. Thank you. It makes the quilt so soft.

Looking forward to this series! Thanks Corey!

Beautiful hand quilted quilts. I can’t wait to learn more! Thank you Cory! ❤️❤️

Sewwwwwww excited for the rest of this series! I hand quilt but have never done the big stitch quilting! Can’t wait!!

Thank you Corey ❤️🥰❤️ Chris

Love these videos! Thank you so much!

I don't like too much talking. I call them gibberish tutorials. They are usually very informative but so difficult to watch to the end. You are amazing. This is such a loving, beautiful video. I look forward to watching all of your videos, Corey.

I love the look of hand quilting, I’ve done very little. But I would love to do more gorgeous hand quilting

Beautiful work have never thought of hand quilting 😊

OUTSTANDING..I can’t wait for the other videos. You are one talented young lady. I never miss a video of you and I just sit with my mouth hanging open at the endless amount of talent you have. Writing books ,designing fabric lines, designing “blocks” , just endless talent. Raising a family, keeping a home along with all things quilts. Thank you so much for sharing so many facets of all things quilting. Looking forward to upcoming videos and thank you again for your big heart to share your knowledge and give of your time. Chris G.

Thanks for sharing those beautiful quilts!! I would love to learn hand quilting.

I followed your Fat Quarter Shop videos on hand stitching a pillow. I made two and really enjoyed it. I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of the series! 💜🧵

Excited for this series, and looking forward to learning how to hand quilt. 🪡🧵

Thanks for sharing your stories 😍👍

I was too young to remember the quilting bees that went in my family. My older siblings tell me. Beautiful beautiful quilts. I want to Try big stitch

I always have a quilt in my hoop that I hand quilt. But since they are so time consuming, I also machine quilt many of my quilts so the pile of tops don’t get too out of control!! I love your video and look forward the rest of the series.

I am so excited! Looking forward to this series. I want to learn the technique.

I can’t wait for the lessons to follow….I really want to learn this skill, thx.

I’ve never tried hand quilting. No it is not on my bucket list. But yesterday I went to the Ohio State Fair and of course I went to the arts and crafts building. One of the quilts on display was hand embroidered and hand quilted. It was fabulous I’m excited about your series. And another reason to purchase more tools.

I am going to try and quilting on my Riley Blake pillow of the month pillows from last year….obviously behind😂 Thank you so much! You inspire me!

I am excited for this! Thank you.

Looking forward to following along on the next few videos.

What a fun series...I've never hand quilted and in fact, it's pretty intimidating! I can't wait to see what you recommend as I think it could be a really fun finish for a small quilt or pillow. Thanks for doing something different that I haven't seen other designers offer.

I love large quilt stitch..

I’m so excited for this series! I want to learn all about big stitch quilting.

I have hand quilted one quilt then went straight to teaching myself to machine quilt!!! I have mixed large stitch quilting with machine quilting on smaller projects. 😁

LOVE this video! and you already are giving me the encouragement to try hand quilting! looking forward to the next videos! thank you!

Thank you so much!!! I have several smalls that I'd like to do big-stitch quilting on, but I'm afraid to start. I'm so excited to have your help!

I wanted to hand piece and hand quilt my first quilt, which was a child's quilt for my first son. That was 25 years ago and it's not done. Shame on me, right? But I WILL be finishing it next year. Really appreciate your love of hand quilting in an age of rush rush rush.

This is the first video on hand quilting I have seen on You Tube. I have been hand piecing and hand quilting since 1992. I would not do quilting any other way. I alway say that sewing machines and I do not get on. I am looking forward to seeing your other videos. Regards from New Zealand.

THANK YOU COREY.

Love your quilt!!!!

Thanks for the very informative video!

I have tried hand quilting - not very successfully! Very easy for me to lose interest ......... thank goodness for the longarm ladies that I have been fortunate to find! I love your stories of the family tradition - thanks for sharing. A your Oh Happy Day book is one of my fav's!

I admire those that can hand quilt. I don't even like to hand sew binding, but I do it. I just don't find it at all fun. I live in an Amish community in central NY and they do beautiful work. But me, I'll stick to my machine for piecing, which is what I love to do. I also wanted to say that I enjoy the logo you helped design for Becky at Power Tools With Threads.

You certainly did dive head first into your quilt making with your beautiful applique! When I started quilting, I did hand quilt several baby blankets, and small projects...but all of my quilting was outline, or in the ditch. Nothing as beautiful as your mom's! I have had the "pleasure" of attending a quilting bee. I was maybe 23 or 24, and all of the other ladies were 70+. While they were nice, and I graciously thanked them for inviting me, I quickly decided that it probably wasn't the place for me, lol. It was a little intimidating, and not very helpful. I had not seen the big stitch method used until I saw you do it in a video a while back. I really like the looks of it, and can't wait to learn more about the technique. I am looking forward to this series! Thank you!

Love your story..

Been wanting to do this! Thank you so much!

I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing, and I also look forward to the next one. I've always wanted to learn hand quilting. I think I'll start with the pillow. :)

I cant wait to see the next few videos. I have done hand quilting. machine is good when in a time crunch but i prefer by hand. I am good at hand because my gran taught me to sew by hand and im quite comfortable with needle in hand. I only learned to use a machine in 2019 and it was weird at first but like i said it does make projects get done faster. so i piece by machine and quilt by hand. i still consider myself a beginner of quilting but a confident one.

I have been wanting to learn so I am excited!

I would love to see you interview your mom and hear her quilting history!

How wonderful you have these hands quilted treasures from your mom and other family members. I just recently inherited many family quilts. Of course, none are labeled, so I'm am currently trying to identify which quilt was made by my mother, grandmother, or great grandmother by the stitching. I would like future generations to know who made these. I just realized you are in my neck of the woods! How neat!

As a little girl I used to watch my great grandmother hand quilt. She would stretch her quilt across two saw horses and stitch the tiniest stitches to sandwich her quilt batting and backing together. She also sewed all her own clothes on a foot peddle Singer sewing machine.

Thank you, Corey! We always put a quilt up when my grandmothers came to visit. Like you, I didn't catch the bug until many years later. Oh, how I would love to gather around a quilt frame today and stitch with family and friends. One of my fondest memories is of my grandmother who kept a short piece of chalk on a string in her apron pocket. She used it like a compass to draw the arcs of the Baptist fan pattern on her quilts. I have several of the quilts both she and my other grandmother hand quilted for me. I look forward to this series.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for talking about hand quilting. I've been a hand quilter for 30 years and have just recently had some quilts machine quilted. It took a lot for me to do it because I felt like the ones I'd seen looked store bought and how could I ever compete with the million stitches the machine could do. My thoughts have changed because of right hand surgeries and so many beautiful fabrics and patterns that I have to make. The hardest was giving my daughter a machine quilting quilt but that's better than no quilt at all.

Beautiful Quilt!! BRAVA❣😃 Glad I found you on You Tube!

So I loved today's video for not the reason it was intended (haha). I discovered that I had fabric from your Prairie line that purchased a really long time ago (years). In the recent years I started organizing my fabric by designers (say the last 5 years or so). I really didn't dive into my already huge collection of fabrics to see if I recognized any fabrics that might be from my favorite designers. You being one of them of course. While watching the video and seeing your older quilts I was like "hey I know I have that fabric". So I went digging - Eureka I found it!!! Like getting an unexpected Christmas present. So kudos Corey - your designs stand the test of time. Love the newer and the older lines alike!!!

I can’t wait to try hand quilting!! Thank you Corey. So looking forward to your series 💖

I am a nurse. I moved from South Africa to Australia. In South Africa a street vendor was selling a wall quilt with a story of her life in the townships. I grew up in a township but I never knew about telling one’s story on fabric, so that was on my bucket list to make one for each of my children. 17 years later and Covid came, bringing extremely strict lockdowns in Australia. I was scared, angry that I couldn’t go to South Africa to see my children. Then I thought I would sew a quilt for my only grandchild. But I wanted a memory/photo quilt so she would know her great grandparents who were still alive. I had never sewn before, but with people like you on RU-vid I found myself making absolute magic, piecing material and making pictures and blocks with the photos. All this with panicked fabric buying when our restrictions were lifted. You wouldn’t believe our restrictions! All this between ICU and anaesthetic shifts. But the hand sewing got me through this scary times. I big stitched wavy lines looking at Deborah Richmond. I took two years to finish my quilt, sewing in three different countries, and finally took it to South Africa to my grandbaby. I was so proud of myself. A first time first generation quilter. 100% by hand.

Beautiful quilt treasures! The hand stitching is gorgeous! My Mom guided me in making my first quilt out of leftover fabric from maternity clothing that I had made for myself. My Dad had hung a large quilting frame from the ceiling in a large spare bedroom. We hand quilted my quilt about 1/4 inch on both sides of the stitching lines. Any of my relatives who came to visit helped. It's indeed a treasure. Thanks for the wonderful memory from 44 years ago! I look forward to the other videos about hand quilting.

I'm very excited about this series Cori!! Thank you for doing this and sharing so much knowledge. I love your Mom's quilting and using multi colored threads is so clever.

I like how all your quilts look with the hand quilting. I've always hated hand work but have done a few things and have noticed it isn't as bad as I thought. I'm interested in your upcoming videos. I think I'm ready to try a small project.

Cory, your mums and your hand stitched quilts are absolutely beautiful. Your moms stitches are so perfect. I’m wondering if you’re familiar with Hawaiian quilting? Whatever you’re quilting ie: flowers, leaves, fish, turtles etc is appliquéd onto the fabric and then a hand stitched “echo” stitch is stitched around the item. It’s beautiful. I’m almost sure you’re probably familiar with it. It makes for great quilting bees!