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!

Thank you for visiting my scrapatch today!
Happy Quilting!

Bound to Be Ready

Bound and Done!

The two-color binding method I used is the same one I followed for
This Quilt

Ready to show my lovely new quiltyness on Friday!!!

:-)

Monday Making

 More  Sundrops 

This photo was taken with bright early morning sun shining into my quilty corner.

For the beginning of autumn, we have had a return 

to sunny, dry and very hot summery weather.

I pieced the back of my quilt ...

with a little help from my quilty kitty helpers ...

Katniss  helped with

measure twice, cut once.

Maestro helped with ... hmmm ... everything?

We are quilting.

My quilty kitties and I are sew looking forward to

showing you our new quilt.

The reveal is at the end of this week.

Until then,

Maestro says "No Peeking!"

Linking up with all the lovely quiltiness
@



Monday Making

Have a happy quilty day!

:-) 

Spider Web Quilt ~ Show and Tell

This big beautiful web was made by Kat

inspired by my free

Spider Web Quilt Tutorial

Kat wanted to make a bigger quilt so she started with 4.5" squares.

When it came time to cut the curves, Kat got really creative

and used a hula hoop for the first cut 

and then used the scrap from that as a template for the next cuts.

What a great idea!

Here are Kat's helpful hints with making a larger web:

"A couple of things I learned:

1. When the quilt gets this big, if you cut your 45 degree wedges -before- adding the curved webbing, you wind up with something less than 45 degrees.

2. If you make an extra section to make up for the smaller-than-45-degree wedges, you have to fuse fabric in the middle like you would for a Dresden plate quilt."

Kat says her quilt is a small lap quilt.

Hearing from Kat and seeing the photo of her quilt makes my quilty day!

If you have made a Spider Web Quilt from my tutorial,

I would love to see a photo.

You may email me at scrapatches@gmail.com

or add a photo to my

Spider Web Quiltalong Flicker Group

Thanks, Kat, for sharing your quilt.

:-) 

Charming Halloween

Hocus Pocus Spooky Delight!

Soon it will be Halloween Night.

Time to weave a web wicked.

And share the candy box of dread!

heeeheheehee !

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