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Monday, December 10, 2018

Jolly Bar Meringue Quilt

Here , at last, is my
Bewitching Jolly Bar Meringue Quilt

Featured on

The Jolly Jabber

This quilt was made with their newest free

shortcut quilt along pattern.

Free PDF Pattern from FQS Here

To make your own version of this quilt
download the pattern on their post today,
watch their video tutorial,
and check out all the quilts in today's quiltalong.

You may also purchase this

Jolly Bar Meringue Quilt Kit

Fat Quarter Shop

I wanted to make a Halloween version of this quilt so
I chose to use these fabrics

Bewitching Layer Cake

Grunge Vanilla Stars

Bella Solid Parchment

and

Bewitching Pumpkin Halloween Lattice for the binding

I cut the 10" squares into two 5" by 10" jolly bar rectangles
and then followed the cutting instructions for the Jolly Bar Meringue quilt blocks
and I used the Creative Grids 9.5 Perfect Rectangles Ruler.

For more info on how I cut and sewed read
My Half Rectangle Triangles Post Here

It has been a late and rainy and gray early fall here,
but the sun has finally come out again.

For my version of the quilt I had fun playing with the basic
For my quilt I played with the 8.5" unfinished meringue blocks
to create the pinwheel effect.

For all the info on how I made this pinwheel variation
of the Jolly Bar Meringue Quilt
Click Here
or scroll down to my next post.

Here is a basic meringue block.

The pieced back of my quilt featured the basic Meringue Blocks ...

... framed with a gray tonal from my stash.

The quilting is a free form spider web with my heavy duty walking foot.

Bound by my Two Fabric Flanged Machine Binding

I love the way the blocks look like they are twisting and turning in the Autumn breeze.

This was a really fun pattern
and I hope to sew it again soon with different fabrics.

Since this quilt was delayed until now,
I have been playing with the layout I made and created
some Christmasy variations:

Christmas Meringue Swirls

and

Christmas Meringue Pinwheels

Email me if you need more info on making these variations.

Thanks to the Fat Quarter Shop
for another fabulous quiltalong!

Note: I am an blogging affiliate of the FQS and I receive a small percentage

of the total sale for purchases made via the share-a-sale links on my blog.

Thanks to all who shop these links and help my quilting and blogging efforts.

Monday, December 3, 2018

Fat Eight Fruitcake Quiltalong

At last I can show you this quilt!
This quiltalong has been delayed due to kit fabric shipments
but it is well worth the wait.

Here is my

Blueberry Fat 8th Fruitcake

quilt top blowing in one of the last breezes of summer!

This quilt is featured today here on

The Jolly Jabber

The next day the wind turned much colder and the temperature dropped.

Now it is winter,

Looking at this quilt makes me warmer and brings back the bright days of summer.

I have been calling this bright and colorful quilt my

"Last Quilt of Summer for 2018"

and it appears to be a good choice of name.

It was also a good choice of fabrics!

Making my Fat Eighth Fruitcake Quilt

with these lovely

Blueberry Park by Karen Lewis

Fat Eighth Bundles

was a breeze!

The first Fat 8th bundle was in

This Sew Sampler Box

which was in one of my first boxes

when I subscribed last year.

I love receiving these surprise boxes,

especially the fabric and pattern,

even when I do not have time to sew it right away.

When I was invited to sew this new shortcut quilt,

my mind went right to an image of this colorful Fat 8th Bundle.

I needed more Fat 8ths and ...

Blueberry Park Fat 8th Bundle

I was sew happy when I saw that there were bundles still available

and they were on sale! Win=Win!

Add some

Blueberry Park White Plus

yardage for background and I was ready to sew!

Here is the free pattern ...

Free PDF Pattern Here

Click on the link to see the kit is beautiful traditional fabrics ...

FQS Fat Eight Fruitcake Quilt Kit

and

Backing Kit

Fat Quarter Shop

I really enjoyed sewing this pattern.

The pattern was a breeze to make with chain piecing,

which is my favorite piecing technique,

and the thirty blocks went together very quickly.

There was very little waste with this quilt,

just a couple of extra fat eights.

This is the first quilt where I have pressed all the seams open

on the blocks and rows.

I am liking the nice flat quilt top this made.

Although matching the seams was a little more challenging,

I will press more seams open in the future.

The pattern looked fabulous in these fabrics!

My quilting inspiration was the "strand" design in the fabric prints,
so I did straight line stitching with my heavy duty walking foot.

My quilty kitty has been very helpful with this process.
Maestro is starting to think every quilt is hers.

For my backing fabric I chose this sunny

Blueberry Park Sunkissed Daisy Yardage
which is also on sale!

I hope you are enjoying this look back to
the last blooms of summer.

May you will soon be sewing your own version of
this fun Fat 8th Fruitcake Quilt!

Hope to see you quilting along!

* Note: I am an blogging affiliate of the FQS and I receive a small percentage

of the total sale for purchases made via the share-a-sale links on my blog.

Thanks to all who shop these links and help my quilting and blogging efforts.