Life in the Scrapatch: Sundrops

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

10 Quilts ~ 10 Days ~ Day 8 ~My Jolly Bar Jazz Quilt

10 Quilts ~ 10 Days ~ Day 8

This is my

Sundrops Jolly Bar Jazz Quilt

because it is snowing here again

and I need a few sundrops of summer today.

This quilt was made using this free

Jolly Bar Jazz Quilt Pattern @ Fat Quarter Shop

This is one of my favorite bed quilts

although it also lives on the back of my sofa for snuggling under on

cool spring and summer nights when the windows are open.

I love these Sundrops fabrics by Corey Yoder

and paired it with a lovely spring green script print in my stash

from another Moda line.

As my creative quilty muse loves to do,

I played with this pattern and added red posts in the green sashing

to create a secondary element to the original quilt design.

This is the large 17" block in the pattern.

With my extra jolly bar fabrics, I made a different block design by turning the corner units and made a toss pillow to go with my quilt.

I love using up fabrics and playing with the pieces.

Someday I would love to make this quilt again

and see what my quity muse might decide to make.

I once saw a quilt on IG where the quilter used similar colors and green sashing

and made a quilt that looked very much like mine.

It made me happy.

I love sharing and swapping quilty ideas with other quilters.

This quilt is a breath of fresh air and sundrops.

This pattern is one of many, many free

Free Shorcut Quilt Patterns @ FQS

Update:

While mentioning all the wonderful patterns generously given by Fat Quarter Shop, I would like to point out that the

Bountiful Quilt Along Starts Today @ Fat Quarter Shop

Block 1 for the Bountiful Charity Quilt Along has been released

and may be found in the link below:

Bountiful Block 1 by Corey Yoder @ Coriander Quilts

I love this basket block.

I have beautiful new fabrics for this quilt along.

These are

Sundance by Crustal Manning @ Fat Quarter Shop

I love these colors and designs

and they have inspired me to make this quilt.

May you find inspiration for your next quilt today!

Happy Sewing!

Friday, September 29, 2017

Sundrops Jolly Bar Jazz Quilt

Sundrops and Shadow and All That Jazz!

Here is my new favorite quilt!

The pattern is a new

Free Jolly Bar Jazz Pattern

from

Fat Quarter Shop

This is Sundrops by Corey Yoder

The background script print is from

Olive's Flower Market

and the green is a perfect match.

I love these fabrics and colors!

Two Jolly Bars and 5.25 yards of background fabric
are all that is needed to make this quilt
which measures a nice queen size,
of 65" by 84" finished.

This big, beautiful block is 17"
and very quickly pieced.

This shows the piecing and cutting method for one of the block units.
Any 6.5" ruler is needed to cut this unit.

To align the ruler in the center, I finger folded
the squares in half twice.

Then I aligned the points of my ruler on the fold lines.

This method generated a pile of intriguing corner scraps.

My scrap basket overfloweth with scrappy goodness!

So I have started sewing them into quarter square triangles.

These are squaring up to pretty 3.25" QST units.
(and a pile of background triangles for a future scrap project)
I will be sewing these as leaders and enders or 15 minutes of play for awhile
until I have used them up and have enough
to make a pillow top or other small quilt project.

I love scraps!

Since I also love the visual feast of secondary patterns in my quilts,
I opted to make a small design change from the original
and I added six red posts the sashing
in the center of my quilt
to create this interesting effect.

I am calling this my "blue note" ... ;)

I made a pieced backing using some of the extra jolly bars and scrap strips.

I quilted this on my home machine with my heavy duty walking foot
in my favorite straight line quilting
and added a two color machine binding.
I love this effect!

I am ready for a jazz on the lawn concert.

To make your own pretty Jolly Bar Jazz Quilt follow the

Free FQS Pattern Here

Kimberly has a wonderful video tutorial

Video Tutorial Here

There is a also a kit available

Creekside Jolly Bar Jazz Quilt Kit

A big Thank You to the Fat Quarter Shop
for the opportunity and supplies to make this quilt.
I love it!

I had a few Jolly Bar cuts left and some scrap strips
so I decided to make a pillow to go with my new quilt.
I had fun playing with the pieces and it resulted in this ...

Churn Dash Variation Block
which can be made simply by turning the units
on the corners of the original block.
This block would make an interesting quilt.

I love exploring the design opportunities of a new pattern.

Be sure to visit today's post on

The Jolly Jabber

to see all the beautiful quilts that have been made
with this lovely pattern.

Feeling inspired?

Hope to see you sewing along soon!