Quilts at Jan T's Utopia

...heaven for quilters

Browsing through Quilts at Jan T's Utopia, you'll find quilt galleries — showcasing quilts by Jan T (Urquhart) Baillie and by her students over the past twenty-odd years. Read the heartwarming story of the Quilts 4 Keeps project. You'll be able to practise your design skills by following the free Electric Quilt tutorials. Have fun trying out the free patchwork tips and online tutorials as well as the free machine quilting tutorials. Enjoy your visit!

 

What's New?

Mistake in my column in duQ 129. Please see this if you have EQ5 or lower.

New tutorials on Electric Quilt (EQ) excerpted from my Down Under Quilts columns. Free pdf download.

To save to your desktop, right click on the lesson you want, and choose Save link as.

AQDS News

Available now:
Start Designing (Quilt) Art: covers designing quilts and textile art: colour study, design principles, visual journals, layout and much, much more...

Colour for Quilters: course covers in-depth colour study, making using colour in textiles simple.

In the pipeline at AQDS:

  • LWYE course
  • Fast Scrap Quilts

Free Tutorials on this site

A series of Colour Principles Lessons in using colour in your patchwork quilts. Have fun!

colour wheel

Other Tutorials here

See the tutorials index for patchwork, machine quilting and Electric Quilt tutorials
set a block on point

Traditional Blocks

and ideas on how to use them:

Off Centre Log Cabin quilt
Latest in the series: Snail's Trail

Quilts For Others

Quilts For Keeps
quilts for keeps logo

Read how to make a quilt for a sick kid in Westmead Children's Hospital. Almost 800 needed every year!

Student Quilts

Quilts made by Jan T's studentsquilts for keeps logo
A birthday party with a difference! Six lively girls had a great time making patchworked bags.

See the quilts that were made in class by many of my students.

My latest quilt

I'm finishing a bright quilt for Bob's delightful grand-daughter, Leah who was one in March.

King Quilt JTUB 2007

Collections Exhibition

An exhibition of quilts about a few of mine and Bob's collections.
Punsand Bay quilt

By the way...

What is Utopia?
ulysses

Heaven, or fictional? Read why the Ulysses butterfly is so important to me...

Read my blog

Jan T (Urquhart) Baillie

Jan T (Urquhart) Baillie shares her thoughts on quilting, shares students' work, and other things on her blog: Quilting with Jan T

Need a web designer?

Want website design that's affordable and beautiful, and made by a well-known quilter for quilters and for their (quilting) businesses?

Jan T can help.
See her web design site — for information, and to see her clients' designs: affordablewebdesign4u

Jan T's Writing

Jan T has written several books about patchwork, quilting and getting images on fabric. She also has been writing a column (almost) continuously for twenty years for Down Under Quilts magazine.

Jan T's Squidoo lenses

Check out her recently published content on Associated Content: Ideal Quilter's Machine?

Links to sites I like

I hope you enjoy them

The NSW Quilters Guild

Annie's Crazy Quilt Studio

Ozquilt Network

Julie's Superior Threads

Dianne Finnegan

NicQuilts

Electric Quilt

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