Anne of Green Gables Christmas Quilt - Free Pattern

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.

#QuiltNon2016 Half-Square Triangle (HST) Challenge

One of these days I'm going to make it to QuiltCon, but this is not the year.  Instead I've been celebrating #QuiltNon2016 at home and sewing up a storm working on a couple Half-Square Triangle projects with Fairfield World and P and B Textiles.  Big thanks to P and B Textiles for sharing some of their new Urban Scandinavian fabrics with me and to Fairfield for providing me with batting and donating some batting and pillowforms for a giveaway and challenge. And of course thanks to Julie of Intrepid Thread for organizing such a fun event for all of us staying at home.

Half-square triangles are SO much fun because they're so easy to make and you can make SO many different designs depending on how you arrange them.

I have always had a special place in my heart for black and white fabrics.  (In fact, the very first real "designer" fabric I bought was a black and white line and ever since I've been hooked.)

My main project for the weekend is a queen-sized quilt with giant half-square-triangles using black and white fabrics from the Urban Scandinavian line and with pops of color from the Color Weave line, both by P and B Fabrics.

I was left with quite a few 6 1/2" WoF scraps, so I thought I'd chop them up into 6 1/2 squares and make a bunch of half-square triangles to use for some coordinating throw pillows to go with the quilt.  The finished HST were 6" and the finished size of the 9x9 blocks is 16 1/2".

I got one block designed and my 6-year-old decided to take over.  She designed the blocks and I sewed them together.  Wow! The creativity of children never ceases to amazing me.

My favorite of the blocks she made is this one.

And her favorite is this one.  She likes it because the big white and big black shape the triangles make reminds her of birds.

But there are so many fun options, even with just using 9 HST's per block.

If you're not familiar with making Half-Square-Triangle blocks there are quite a few different short-cuts for making them depending on what size fabric you're starting with, and how many you need.  One of the best resources for HST measurements and methods can be found at Blossom Heart Quilts here.

We'd love for you to share your HST projects on Instagram this weekend too, with the hashtag #QuiltNon2016HST

The original plan was throw pillows, but these blocks are so fun we may just have to make a HST sampler quilt with them.  So...in honor of both of these fun options, Fairfield World is donating a 60″ X 60" pack of my favorite Nature-Fil™ Bamboo Blend Batting a two 16" Crafter’s Choice® Pillow Inserts.  Anyone (in the US and Canada) can enter, whether you make some HSTs this weekend or not.  Open for Entries until Monday, February 22, 2016.

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Paper Airplanes and Rockets Modern TrianglesQuilt - Using fabric from Children at Play by Sarah Jane Studios

I finished up this Children at Play Boy Quilt a couple months ago, but just haven't gotten a chance to blog about it until now.  This quilt is available for purchase in my Etsy shop here.

Children at Play by Sarah Jane Studios is one of my favorite fabric lines ever...especially the prints with boys doing brainy things like playing with rockets and paper airplanes.  Unfortunately, they're getting pretty hard to find.  So about a year and a half ago I tracked down as many of the boy prints as I could, and I started a twin sized Children at Play quilt for Anson.  That quilt is still not finished...but cutting it out gave me all these yummy left-over triangles.

I used some of the bolder colored "After School" triangles a while back to make this quilt with white triangles thrown in.  (See more details about Modern Rocket Launch Triangle Quilt in bold colors here.  This quilt available to purchase in my shop here.)

I love contrast, though, so I didn't want to use the white prints with white background triangles.  I saved all the white prints and less bold "Over the Fence" colored triangles to use in this quilt.  The solid triangles are Kona Cotton in Celery.