Hello Quilting Friends,
Here is the next offering for my special give away, Free Pattern Friday. Once a month, on a Friday, I will make a pattern available as a free PDF download. The pattern will be available until I post the next one. Then it's gone! So make sure you download your copy today.
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This month’s design was originally created for Fons & Porter’s Easy Quilts fall 2014. If you’d like to read my original blog post for this design click here.
Here is the next offering for my special give away, Free Pattern Friday. Once a month, on a Friday, I will make a pattern available as a free PDF download. The pattern will be available until I post the next one. Then it's gone! So make sure you download your copy today.
You may also want to sign up for my mailing list. That way you’ll never miss an update to my blog. I promise never to sell your name to anyone. I will only ever use it to let you know about what’s going on at my website.
This month’s design was originally created for Fons & Porter’s Easy Quilts fall 2014. If you’d like to read my original blog post for this design click here.
The original design was a 46” x 62” lap sized quilt. I decided to scale it down to a crib sized quilt measuring 40” x 54”. I got rid of the extra row of blocks across the length and width. I like this smaller size better. It feels like a better size for a small child to drag around. I feel that it’s important for a child to actually enjoy the quilt that a loved one made for them. Rather than having it hung on the wall as a decoration. Let me know what your feelings are on this subject, if you please.
When this design was originally published Fons & Porter deemed this design to be a great choice for their Quilts for Kids program because meets all of their guidelines. Plus it’s quick to make. The best part is that the yardages are relatively small. So you probably have all of the fabrics that you need in your stash. Better still because this design uses 2.5" wide units it's perfect for precuts!
I made a new version of this quilt for the daughter of a friend of mine. I invited him to choose the colors. He and his wife decided on green & purple. I decided to use black as the background color to set off the bright colors. My friend is a tattoo artist so I felt he and his wife would appreciate the avant-garde coloring of the baby quilt, which they did.
I want to show you how different this design can look when you change the value placement. Each of the following variations are shown with their corresponding greyscale value placement map. These maps will help you to identify what values you should use for each part of the block. They also will help show you how to arrange the blocks for each layout. The yardages shouldn't be too different but I would buy a little extra just to be safe.
When this design was originally published Fons & Porter deemed this design to be a great choice for their Quilts for Kids program because meets all of their guidelines. Plus it’s quick to make. The best part is that the yardages are relatively small. So you probably have all of the fabrics that you need in your stash. Better still because this design uses 2.5" wide units it's perfect for precuts!
I made a new version of this quilt for the daughter of a friend of mine. I invited him to choose the colors. He and his wife decided on green & purple. I decided to use black as the background color to set off the bright colors. My friend is a tattoo artist so I felt he and his wife would appreciate the avant-garde coloring of the baby quilt, which they did.
I want to show you how different this design can look when you change the value placement. Each of the following variations are shown with their corresponding greyscale value placement map. These maps will help you to identify what values you should use for each part of the block. They also will help show you how to arrange the blocks for each layout. The yardages shouldn't be too different but I would buy a little extra just to be safe.
I hope you’re excited and feeling inspired by this pattern I have offered you. I can’t wait to see what your version will look like! Please send me a photo of it when you have completed yours. And don’t forget to leave a comment. That way I know I’m not alone here. : )
This pattern is available from download from my ETSY Shop. Click here to purchase this pattern.
I hope you have a happy day full of quilting! Namaste my quilting friend, Janice
This pattern is available from download from my ETSY Shop. Click here to purchase this pattern.
I hope you have a happy day full of quilting! Namaste my quilting friend, Janice
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