The Glenda Quilt Pattern (and scrap giveaway)

A while back when I made this pillow for a swap, I had the idea to make a Tennessee Waltz inspired quilt where there were overlapping chains of stars.  I get ideas like this sometimes and they pretty much never work out, but I drafted the pattern in EQ7 and it actually worked.
The Glenda Quilt

Meet The Glenda Quilt, now available on Craftsy and Etsy. She is named after a teacher that I had from 6-8th grade.  Glenda Maxwell is one of the most compassionate, patient, and kookiest people I have ever met.  She took individual interest in all of her students and she had a profound impact on my life.  

For this quilt I used Michael Miller Cotton Couture solids.  When I was planning the colors for this quilt, I kept coming back to Cotton Couture because they have the best shades of blue/greens.  The colors that I ended up using were Bottle, Teal, Celestial, Peacock, Spearmint, Kiwi, Nickel, Lillypad, Fog, and Bright White. 

I had three wonderful testers test out this pattern for me.  
Miranda's Glenda Quilt
Miranda used Bonnie and Camille fabrics on her beautiful quilt.  I love how she used a combination of prints and solids, and how the dark gray stars really pop.
Sally's Glenda Quilt
Sally used one of my favorite color combos for her gorgeous quilt - I love those minty greens and peaches together.

The third pattern tester is having a whopper of a month.  Pat was displaced by the hurricane and then had a death in the family.  I will be showing you her quilt soon.
The Glenda Quilt
I hope you enjoy the pattern.  If you make a version, I would love to see it!  Tag it with the hashtag #theglendaquilt on Instagram or email me a photo.

I have a nice sized pile of scraps leftover from making this quilt and I would love to give them away.  If you are interested, just leave a comment on this post and I will pick a winner in the next few days! The winner has been notified, thanks for entering!

110 comments

  1. Very interesting quilt! Lovely design! mumbird3(at)gmail(dot)com

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  2. Love the design and love the colors. I wouldn't mind at all to take those scraps off your hand.

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  3. I would love the scraps. The quilts are lovely. And the colors are vibrant

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  4. Scraps? Who wouldn't love more scraps? Pick me! Lol!

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  5. Wow this is amazing..i hope to have the skills soon to be able to make something this gorgeous..what a generous give away.
    Deebriese@yahoo.com

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  6. Wow this is amazing..i hope to have the skills soon to be able to make something this gorgeous..what a generous give away.
    Deebriese@yahoo.com

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  7. Beautiful quilt. Can't wait to make it!

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  8. I love how different each quilt looks. Your blues and greens are gorgeous - thanks for the chance!

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  9. All of the quilts are so gorgeous. I love the way each looks so different in the different fabrics.
    Thank you for the chance to win the scraps. I could really use them in my scrappy quilt.

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  10. what a great design! I love how, with just a switch in light/dark, it really makes it pop.

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  11. Wow, wonderful pattern of pillow. Lovely design of every pillow. I am providing writing help with personal statement at Personal Statement Folks. I would like to recommend your website to our academic writer, who are looking for buying new pillow and hope they would love them. Really good job you doing. The pillow covers and the pillow inserts were quickly shipped. Looking forward for your next post. Thanks for sharing!

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  12. The Glenda Quilt is dazzling! I love the way it so different depending on the various colors and values. It would be fun to experiment with. sjvonfumetti at yahoo dot com

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  13. It's lovely! And I'm always interested in some scraps.

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  14. It's lovely! And I'm always interested in some scraps.

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  15. What an eyecatching & unique quilt! I love that you named it after a teacher, too.

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  16. I love that you made this with scraps. I am beginning to like the challenge of making things from leftovers. Not the cooking kind either!

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  17. very pretty quilt. I would love to have these scraps delivered to my mailbox. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  18. Thank you for the chance...I love using scraps!! tghjlw at gmail dot com

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  19. A striking quilt pattern! Congratulations!

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  20. What a beautiful quilt!! I love the colors and would like to be put in the draw for your lovely scraps!

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  21. I would love to have someone else's scraps, not that I don't have enough of my own--ha,ha--but you quilters understand.

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  22. Your quilt design is amazing. The possibilities for striking color combinations are endless. I would love those scraps.

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  23. Your quilt is terrific. It is a very striking quilt. Thanks for the scrappy opportunity.

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  24. All beautifully done! What a striking pattern!

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  25. what a beautiful quilt! I love solids & would be so happy to use your scraps

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  26. Love the new quilt pattern. Really love both the first and second color combinations. Thanks for the chance to win the scraps.

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  27. Gorgeous quilt - and thank you for the opportunity to possibly win those gorgeous scraps! I'm a scrappy quilter who makes 99% of my quilts to give a away....Deb mdenders@msn.com

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  28. What a pretty quilt! Love the design and the colors! I LOVE scraps. :). Thanks for having a giveaway.

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  29. I really like this pattern. Nice work! And it is helpful to see the different versions. I would love your scraps! 😃

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  30. This pattern looks awesome, I can't wait to try it!

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  31. What a great idea, thanks for the opportunity! Your colors are beautiful and I would love to win your scraps! =D

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  32. Beautiful in all of the colorways. But I really do love that subtle use of grey paired with the more vibrant colors.

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  33. It's fun when the unexpected happens with designs. Love how this turned out. Teachers never get enough credit for all their hard work and the kookiest ones are alway the best and the one's we remember. grinnie1961 at gmail dot com

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  34. Loving this quilt design! I like paper-piecing and looks a little less complicated than a Kaleidoscope pattern I have picked out to sew. Thank you, peterstankovich@comcast.net

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  35. I like how you see different patterns when you look at the quilt! So many quilts to make so little time!

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  36. I love the quilt! Looks like it would be a really fun project to play with different color combinations.

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  37. wow these quilts are gorgeous. I love the pattern. yes I am interested
    quilting lady 2 at comcast dot net

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  38. Oh, I love this pattern! Just purchased it, now to plan what fabrics to use! Thanks!

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  39. Beautiful! I love the colors and the Michael Miller Solids are so silky and soft. Thanks!

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  40. ihhhhh scraps- i love them. If you could, could you also add a couple of hours to each day so that i can finally finish all my crazy plans? ;-)
    jen.neef@web.de

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  41. Scraps are my favorite...and these are such pretty colors.

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  42. I like the 3D effect of this quilt. 24Tangent@gmail.com

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  43. This is beautiful and I LOVE the colors! Thanks for the chance to win your leftovers!

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  44. I would love to have some scraps! I am going to make some small things soon, like little purses, mug rugs and change purses. We are making some things for a holiday bazaar. Thank you for the opportunity to win!

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  45. Yes!! Please! would loooove to have your scraps!! Thank you for chance to win them!! :)

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  46. I always love scraps and these are GREAT. Sorry to hear about your testers problems, heart goes out to her.Thanks for the chance to win.

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  47. This quilt reminds me of the Storm at Sea pattern which I have always wanted to make. Thank you for a chance to win your scraps! Love these colors!

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  48. Nice quilt pattern; fabric colors make the quilts stand out.

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  49. Beautiful quilt....the color combination is genius!

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  50. What a beautiful pattern! It's amazing how different color selections make the pattern look a little different in each one.

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  51. I love this quilt so beautiful can't wait to make my own.

    erin2470@hotmail.com

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  52. Your quilts are gorgeous!

    lenelson(at)mail(dot)com

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  53. Oh wow, who doesn't like scraps! I love the brilliant colors in your quilt.

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  54. Love this pattern...thanks for the chance!

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  55. Fabulous design and love it in all the layout and color combo.Thanks for the chance!

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  56. This is a nice pattern, it's geometric and the Irish chain feeling of it is also pleasing:) I'd love to win the scraps, I just love scraps :) emilyste7ens at gmail dot com

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  57. Beautiful quilt! I love all the different versions. Thanks for a chance to win the scraps!

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  58. Hi, I love the colors in your quilt. Thank you for the opportunity to win your scraps. I recently retired and have become active in my county's Project Linus chapter. Donated fabric would help defray my costs. I donate the batting and thread--as well as my time and effort. ahammerquilts@gmail.com

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  59. Each quilt with the different fabric choices have such different looks with different parts of the design highlighted. The blues jumping off your quilt are awesome. What a great pattern.

    tushay3 (at) yahoo (dot) com

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  60. Each quilt with the different fabric choices have such different looks with different parts of the design highlighted. The blues jumping off your quilt are awesome. What a great pattern.

    tushay3 (at) yahoo (dot) com

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  61. Beautiful quilts! I love you choice of colors!!!

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  62. Beautiful!
    And amazing!! You are so talented!
    Love the colors and appreciate all the time designers put in for these patterns that are made available.

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  63. I would love to have your scraps. This pattern really caught my attention. I wonder if I could ever put one together. I would like to have the same colors that you have used.

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  64. All three quilts are beautiful - thanks for sharing.

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  65. The design is amazing. The different fabrics are awesome!

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  66. I just purchased this pattern and all that came in the download was the template for the triangle........

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  67. I love scraps. Thanks for sharing yours.

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  68. What a beautiful pattern! I really like your colour choices as well. Thank you for sharing with us!

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  69. Love these quilts! I can't decide which one I like the best! Thanks for the chance to win your scraps. Love the colors you used, too!

    Sandy A

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  70. I always think other people's scraps are more fun than my own. Lovely quilt.

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  71. Wow! I just adore this pattern. Thinking I might like to use it for my precious AMH fabrics for a quilt for my bed!

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  72. Love the pattern and the colors. Your comment about Glenda Maxwell was beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

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  73. Love the movement created by the pattern. Would love to take those scraps off your hands - those are my fav colors!!

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  74. I always love seeing a project done in more than one colour way, it helps to get a good feel for what I could do with a design. Thank you for a fun giveaway too. x

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  75. Love the quilt and love the colors. And love that youve named it after one of your teachers. They are so important and yet because it is so early in life, people tend to 'forget' them. I would love to get to work with Cotton Couture once so I am in for the give-away. Thank you!
    cottonpaperflowers at gmail dot com

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  76. Love the design. I especially like the solids. Thanks for the chance to win. momoftana at yahoo dot com

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  77. Your pattern is stunning. And I love the color palette you used.

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  78. I'd love to win your scraps for a blue and green quilt I'm making for my grandson. Please count me in.
    BTW, your new pattern is amazing!

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  79. Gorgeous pattern! Also, I love scraps, so thanks for the chance!

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  80. Great pattern! I love the way Miranda's sample came out!!

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  81. Congratulations on a great pattern and a fabulous quilt!
    Marie Sagers
    mcmsagers AT comcast DOT net

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  82. Seriously beautiful quilts! And the colors are phenomenal!

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  83. Beautiful design. Love the second quilt with solids and prints. Thanks for giving away the scraps :-)

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  84. I just found your blog and I love it! And this pattern is beautiful!:-)

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  85. What a Beautiful and Amazing Quilt. Another design for my to do list. Thanks for the opportunity to win these scraps.. dhardenburg (at) prodigy (dot) net

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  86. What a great pattern - and I love the colors you chose! Would be honored to win your scraps so that I can try one of my own. :)

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  87. I would love to receive your scraps. I'm part of a prayer quilt ministry at my church, and we mostly use donated fabric. I would use your scraps for this purpose.

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  88. Colour makes such a difference in a quilt doesn't it. This is a lovely pattern. It almost looks like there are curves from a distance. A bunch of scraps would be fabulous since I'm a paper piecer. That's almost exclusively what I make my patterns from.

    Congratulations on another great quilt.

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  89. A great quilt design - I love the colours of the first quilt best!

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  90. Wow - I love seeing how fabric choices change the quilt - these are ALL stunning but different in small ways!!!

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  91. I'm in love with this pattern! A Tennessee Waltz quilt is on my bucket list and I keep wondering what to do with the snowballed block since I'm not an expert quilter and I use a home machine to do it. The shadow stars are just perfect.

    I'd love a chance at those scraps, the colors are awesome.

    linda_collum@hotmail.com

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  92. Love this design, such beautiful quilts . I'd be thrilled to win your scraps , I love scraps !

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  93. This is such a gorgeous pattern! Love your color choices! Your testers did a terrific job! One day I would love to become a tester, sounds like so much fun! I know I can always use scraps, but don't we all? Lol. Thanks for all you do! :)

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  94. This is such a gorgeous pattern! Love your color choices! Your testers did a terrific job! One day I would love to become a tester, sounds like so much fun! I know I can always use scraps, but don't we all? Lol. Thanks for all you do! :)

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  95. What a bold and beautiful pattern! I love all those points. Your color choices is just fantastic!

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  96. Lovely...can always use more fabric !

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  97. It would be fun to work with someone else's scraps. Thanks for the give-a-way!

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  98. I am probably too late, but just in case, I would like to be in the drawing for scraps! Thanks, sarah@forrussia.org

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  99. that is an amazing quilt/pattern!!! I absolutely love your design! I have EQ7 but can't figure out how to even import fabric into it to start trying to make a pattern! lol if you have any tips for getting started in EQ7 I would greatly appreciate it!!!!! I absolutely LOVE this pattern though!

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  100. This is indeed a great and enriching experience, a part from work it enables you to explore new things and learn some amazing skills net worth

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