This Anne of Green Gables Quilt is as simple and timeless as the beloved books by L.M. Montgomery. Make your own with this free pattern. Big thanks to Riley Blake Designs for sending me fabric from their Anne of Green Gables Christmas collection by Penny Rose Fabrics that's just hitting stores in the last month or so. And as always, thanks to Fairfield World for providing me with batting and compensating me for this post. All ideas, opinions, and enthusiasm are 100% my own. This post contains affiliate links to help support my work.
I know it's a bit early for working on Christmas projects...but let's be serious. Starting now, is the only way I get Christmas sewing done before the mad rush.
Anne of Green Gables was one of my favorite book series in middle school, and Gilbert Blythe from the first two Anne of Green Gables movies was my first celebrity crush. So I was SUPER excited to hear about this year's Anne of Green Gables Christmas fabric collection, and new I needed to make a quilt...but not just any quilt...a quilt worthy of Anne herself and one that I could imagine on her bed at Green Gables or in her cozy House of Dreams.
After looking through some vintage quilt inspiration, I came across this quilt made by Jane Austen and the other women in her family. I thought even though Anne herself did not like patchwork...she might have been willing to make a quilt fashioned after a pioneer of English women's literature.
As a quilter one of my favorite ways to commemorate a milestone event is with a quilt. So when our daughter turned 8 years old and chose to be baptized a member of the LDS Church a couple months ago, I made her this All White Cuddle Quilt to help her remember the special day. (Note: Fairfield World and Shannon Fabrics sent me supplies and compensated me to make this quilt and write about it on the Fairfield website here. This personal blog post is entirely my own.)
In the LDS Church we believe that the Holy Ghost (or Holy Spirit) is a member of the Godhead and helps lead, guide, and prompt our decisions. He also acts as a Comforter in times of grief, pain, and/or anxiety. Since this special girl suffers from severe social anxiety (selective mutism), I thought this physical reminder of comfort would help her remember that the Holy Ghost can also help comfort her soul.
You're going to love this simple Star Wars Quilt-in-a-Day Pattern. Don't feel limited to Star Wars though...this is a great pattern for any theme. We'll use easy strip-piecing so that you could put this whole quilt together in a day, start to finish. Thanks to Fairfield World for their continued support of my creativity and for their help bringing you this pattern. They provided me with batting and have compensated me for this post. All thoughts, opinions, patterns, ideas, and enthusiasm are 100% my own.
My daughter is a Fan Girl to the core in several fandoms, but one of her newest loves is Star Wars. She's been asking for a Star Wars quilt for a while, so she was happy to get this one.
But it's also perfect for your favorite Storm Trooper to lounge on while reading a good book.
This Free MATH Paper Piecing Pattern makes a great Mini Quilt or Throw Pillow or could be added into a larger quilt. I tend to collect math and science themed fabrics, and this was a great way to show some of them off. With Pi-Day coming up soon, I really wanted to do some Math-Geek sewing.
Many thanks to RJR Fabrics for providing me with a bundle of their Geekery Fabrics by Sue Marsh to play with. And thanks as always to Fairfield World for providing me with batting and compensating me for this post. This pattern was designed using EQ7. All opinions, ideas, patterns, and enthusiasm are 100% my own. This post contains affiliate links.
Our oldest daughter has never really liked math despite being reasonably good at it. We pressured her a bit to join math team last year. (As in...you want us to drive you to volleyball games every weekend...then you'll do math team at lunch.) Thanks to her wonderful math teacher/coach last year, she signed up more willingly this year, and now thanks to two years with some excellent math teachers/coaches, she says math is her favorite class. It makes this math-loving-mama super happy.
So when math team ended this year, we wanted to do something special for her teacher...so we whipped up a little math mini-quilt. It could also make for a great quilted pillow. We wanted it to be small enough she could display it in her classroom where she has another quilt hanging.
If you're just starting out with foundation paper piecing, this is a GREAT pattern for beginners...nice big pieces and not very many of them...and each block is a single pattern piece. I've got two sizes for you to choose from. I used the 9.5 inch blocks which just requires you to tape the paper pieces together to make the paper big enough. Or if you don't want to hassle with that, you can use the 7.5 blocks that print out on a single piece of paper.
If you're not already familiar with paper-piecing there are lots of simple tutorials online to help with the process. I like this tutorial.
Here's what you'll need to make your own:
Fat Quarter Bundle of Geekery by Sue Marsh for RJR Fabrics. I used By the Numbers in Black, Scientifically Speaking in Black, Atoms in Red, Atoms in Green, Atoms in Blue, and Germ * Amoebas in Yellow for my blocks.
5/8 yard backing fabric (SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING - MULTI ALBUS)
Pattern pieces each have a 1/4 inch seam allowance. They're in PDF form. When you go to print them be sure that your printer is set to print them ACTUAL SIZE.
Paper- Piecing Patterns are always mirror-imaged...so when you print them, they will looked "flipped" from how the block appear in my quilt.
To round out the gift we also slipped in our favorite Math Book. Despite the title, This is NOT a Math Book really IS a math book, but it's also a really neat art book that shows connections between art and math and doodling and has some fun activities.
(Below is a sneak peek my sister-in-law from Bond with Books put together.)
My long-time readers will know that I LOVE I-Spy charm squares and am always looking for new ways to use them. (I host I-Spy Square Swaps about once a year and also sell I-Spy charm sets in my Etsy Shop.) You wouldn't necessarily need to use I-Spy squares. Lots of quilt shops sell charm square packs where you can get a few squares from each fabric in a favorite fabric line.
Last year a dear family friend lost her battle with cancer. While visiting her family, they let me choose some fabric from her stash. She was an artist and LOVED color, so I chose this bright rainbow zebra to make a quilt for her grand-baby who was born a few months later.
Even though I designed this quilt over the summer, I'm sharing it now because it makes me think of January Skies...all sorts of shades of grey, with some yellow sunshine peaking through...with the light sometimes fractured through ice crystals on the window panes. Through the grey there's lots of promise of a new year starting.
Many thanks to Fairfield World for providing me with their amazing batting and compensating me for this post to bring you all a bit of sunshine. This pattern was designed using EQ7. All ideas, opinions, enthusiasm and fabric used in this post are 100% provided by me. This post contains affiliate links to support my creatively and allow me to bring you more projects.
Christmas is over and I'm ready for Spring to come...but we still have a few months until she shows her face...sigh...
I'm usually not one to get too passionate about politics, but some tickets are just so perfect, you have to get excited (or too awful to ignore.) If you're as disgusted as I am with this election cycle and the candidate options, you'll probably be excited with some rumored third-party tickets that may be entering the race at any time. (This post contains affiliate links to help support my blog. I have not be compensated in any way for writing this post and all ideas are 100% my own.)
Who wouldn't love to vote for Harry Potter and Ron Weasley as President and Vice...
Or is that Ginny Potter and Hermione Weasley (that's how my 7-year-old is reading it.)
Or if you're looking for a ticket with progressive minds and creative thinking, you might find yourself supporting Hermione and Luna for a run for the White House.
Yeah, I know all the characters are English...but at this point I'm willing to consider anyone who is not Trump or Clinton, and we're sure you'll like these logos more than the recently retired logo from the Trump campaign.
And you can have your very own shirt to, because I'm sharing the files to make your own as my contribution to the Happy Harry Potter series on Raegun Ramblings. (Seriously...my favorite blog event of the whole year.) You'll want to head over to Raegun Ramblings and check out all the cool tutorials each day.
This quilt has been a long time coming. With all the quilting I've done over the years, I've only ever made one quilt for my own bed...and that was one I started around 8th grade and finished around 10th grade. It was time for something more updated and more reflective of my current leanings toward modern quilting.
When P and B Textiles offered to send me some of their new Urban Scandinavian line by Kirstyn Cogan, I knew it belonged in a quilt for my bed. I really love a good black and white fabric line, and these are gorgeous. The were kind enough to to send enough queen/king size. They also sent 1 fat quarter bundle of their original Color Weave collection to use for the pops of color in the quilt. Many thanks also to Fairfield World for providing the batting and compensating me for this post. This pattern was designed using EQ7. All opinions are 100% my own.
Not to toot my own horn...but I fall in love with this quilt all over again each time I walk in the room. (My bed might even get made around half the time now. Ha!)
I've recently been learning more about the quilting side of things at my local modern quilt guild meetings, and how different battings create different looks. So for this quilt, I went with an 80/20 Cotton/Poly batting as a base and then added Nature-Fil™ wool batting over the top. This gives it the drape of a cotton batting quilt, but the wool makes the quilting lines show a bit more. A polyester Poly-Fil batting can also be used in place of the wool.
And because it was so large, I hired my friend and fellow Fairfield Master Maker Charisma Horton of to quilt it for me. She does professional longarm quilting and she did a fabulous job mimicking the pattern in one of the prints and also doing an off center focal point block. (She does some pretty amazing work if you're ever looking for long arm quilting services.)
And I love this fabric I found for the backing...I just love that it's black and white and the names of colors all over it.
And just because I had so much fun learning how to use EQ7. (Electric Quilt 7) for designing the pattern, I also worked up an alternative quilt with some of my most favorite fabrics from the fabric line.
For this version you would need:
1 1/2 Yards each of Your Four Favorite Urban Scandinavian Fabrics (2 Black/grey prints and 2 White/Black prints)
1 1/2 Yards each of 4 Color Weave Prints (Dark Gold CWEA 200X, Green CWEA 200 YG, Purple CWEA 200C, and Blue CWEA 200 B shown here)
1 Yard binding fabric
2 2/3 108" wide backing fabric
You would need to cut 6 - 17" Squares from each your fabrics (This will give you four extra squares.) Follow directions in original tutorial for sewing the Half-Square Triangle Blocks and finishing your quilt.
This easy Half-Square Blocks quilt is a great choice for beginners and is the perfect choice if you're working with 10-in precut fabric squares. The look of the quilt will be completely different depending on the fabrics you choose. We love how it looks with the Seeing Spots Cuddle Cakes fabric pack from Shannon Fabrics. This post is part of a Fairfield Master Makers challenge and I was provided with the cuddle fabrics by Shannon Fabrics. Fairfield World provided me with product and compensated me for this post. This post also contains affiliate links.
Time:
Start to finish can be done in a day. Skill Level:
Beginner Materials:
1 Cuddle Cake from Shannon Fabrics. I used Seeing Spots, but any of their Cuddle Cake packs would work great, or you can make from yardage. If you're using yardage, you'd would need 4-10 10" cuts of cuddle fabric depending on how much variety you want. You need 20 10-in squares total.
My kids have gotten rather addicted to cuddle fabrics on our throw pillows, so I knew when I sewed these quilted I-Spy Hearts, I wanted to put Cuddle on the back of them, so one side would be super soft. (Thanks to Fairfield World for providing me with the pillow inserts and compensating me for writing this post and to Shannon Fabrics for providing me with the cuddle fabric. All opinions are 100% my own.
This tutorial will work to turn any quilted pillow front into a pillow with cuddle backing.
2/3 Yard of Cuddle 3 or Soft Cuddle from Shannon Fabrics in your chosen color. (I used Soft Cuddle in Scarlet.) This is enough for 2-3 pillows because it comes 60" wide.
