How to Make a Cathedral Window Quilt

Have you ever seen a traditional pieced Cathedral Window quilt/coverlet and wondered how it was assembled? In this tutorial video, I show how to put these beautiful quilt/coverlets together. This video is a condensed version of a live stream that I did during the year of Covid lockdowns. As always, there is a note/pattern file associated with this video that you can download below for free. If you would like to see the more lengthy version, click on the link below.

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🔶 In this Video You Will Learn

‣ How to tell the difference between a modern and a traditional Cathedral Windows quilt.
‣ How to construct the traditional Cathedral Windows quilt/coverlet.
‣ How to insert color behind the "windows" for added sparkle.

🔶 Chapters Markers in this Video

‣ Introduction: 0:25
‣ Difference between traditional and modern: 1:02
‣ Difference between quilt and coverlet: 3:40
‣ Background assembly tutorial: 4:30
‣ Inserting color windows: 22:17
‣ Quilt assembly: 30:28
‣ Special ANNOUNCEMENT: 32:20
‣ Outtro: 33:29

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[rutheglin-pugh]

So well explained. Thank you for this tutorial. And a small quilt using only a few squares is not intimidating. Lovely!

[TaniaSheaves]

Beautiful!!! Thank you for your great explanation. Some tutorials are not that understand. Love watching you..❤

[CarolJohnson-vdir]

Thank you for this tutorial. I have been wanting to do a small cathedral window wall piece or small throw but was a little intimidated. Your explanation and demonstration were very easy to follow. I think I will give it a try.

[AmyLouiseDens]

Excellent tutorial. I've been quilting for lots of years, but this is the best explanation I've seen. I think I will make a few greeting cards using this instruction. Thank you!

[sullysmom]

New subscriber. Such a gentle way of explaining things. Thank you.

[ChristineKrannich]

Hi Deborah :) Brand new to your channel. I subbed. I hope you hit the 10k soon!

[shelleyt]

I have always wondered how it was done. I have been enjoying hand sewing with English Paper Piecing, and was looking to expand to another type of hand sewing. This is intriguing, I had not realized the traditional style was this double layer open effect. You did such a great job explaining it and demonstrating it I will try this first with a cushion cover and see how it goes.

As you say it is a good way to use up scraps with the muslin background.

I do have a question though, if I wanted to add batting to it for warmth and more texture, how would I quilt it? Would it need to be hand quilted? Tied? Where would the quilting be done. In between the windows so you don’t stitch down the windows and create a flat surface instead of the 3-D effect? Curious about that.