Quilt Ideas - Tula Pink Solids

When I was contemplating fabric collections for a Quilt Ideas post, I kept going back to solids. I decided to make some mockups using the Tula Pink solids because (1) I have used them several times (see here, here, and here) and they are soft and vibrant and wonderful and (2) they are so nicely curated that they are like a fabric collection on their own.

In fact, I enjoyed this so much that I got a little carried away and made a bunch. Plus I had previously used them for mockups when releasing new quilt patterns so I'm going to include those as well. 

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4 Days of 40% Off - The Freya Quilt

Today is the last day of the 40% off sales and today the pattern is the Freya Quilt!

This is a more recent pattern, and another favorite. Can you tell they are all kind of my favorites? I particularly like how well this pattern works with scraps and the potential to do something rainbow-y or ombre.

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Quilt Ideas - Holly Jolly

I know it's not Christmas yet, it's not even Christmas in July yet, but I really like this collection and felt festive so here are some mockups using Holly Jolly by Urban Chiks.

The pink/red combo is my favorite part about this collection so I went a little heavy on the pink for some of these mockups. I am also including a mockup using my new pattern which will be available next week and which is super quick to make + jelly roll friendly!

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Quilt Ideas - Florida 2

I have some fun mockups for you today! These are all using Florida 2 by Sarah Watts. A while back I shared my Freya Quilt pattern which uses the collection, but the fabric wasn't quite available yet - you know how that goes these days! 

This collection has some great purples and one of my current favorite color combinations (peach with a minty green). I have only been to Florida once (on a band trip in the 9th grade) and I live just about as far away from Florida as you can get and still be in the contiguous 50 states, but I just adore this collection.

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Quilt Ideas - Midnight in the Garden

 It has been a little bit since I did a Quilt Ideas post and I have missed it! Today I am going to share some mockups using Midnight in the Garden by Sweetfire Road for Moda, which is a brand new collection that is somewhere between traditional and modern with lots of pretty florals.

I really like the pinks/mustard/yellow combination used in the collection - especially in combination with those dark colors. It really makes the colors pop and I even used a dark gray as the background color for one of my mockups (I know - shocking!).

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How to Make Your Scrap Quilt Look Good

I get this question so often: how do you make a scrap quilt look good? There isn't once answer to this question, but I'm going to give you a few guidelines to help you out.

Remember that these are my thoughts - they aren't rules and you can do whatever you want. These are guidelines that I roughly use to pick fabrics for scrap quilts and I break them all of the time. 

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A Scrappy Freya Quilt

As soon as I knew that this design for the Freya Quilt would be a pattern, I knew I wanted to make a scrappy version. As you know, my scrap situation has been out of control and I had a bucket full of leftover binding strips and jelly roll remnants that were perfect for this quilt.

Since I tend to use darker colors to bind my quilts, this quilt ended up with quite a bit of navy, black, and dark gray and I love how the dark values play with the bright colors. 

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How to Make (Just About!) Any Quilt a Scrap Quilt

One of my favorite things to do with a pattern, is to turn it into a scrap quilt. It doesn't work for all patterns but most block-based quilts can be made scrappy. 

So how do you do this? First, you need to figure out what you need to do to make a single block. Many patterns (including many of my block-based patterns) have this information included. It is useful for making a test block, but it also helps you break the quilt down into units for making the quilt scrappy.

Look at the quilt, figure out how many blocks you need to make, and that will help you determine how many scraps you need. Just multiple the requirements for a single block by the number of blocks to figure how many pieces you need.

I will give you a few examples.

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The Freya Quilt - The Mockups

I've got lots of fun mockups of the Freya Quilt to share with you today. Because a Jelly Roll gives you so many different fabric options, this collection works well with just about any fabric collection.

Making mockups is fun because it lets me play with far more fabric collections that I have time (or money) to sew with, but it also gives you an idea of how a pattern can work in different collections. They are always personally inspiring for me to make and I hope you find them inspiring as well.

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The Freya Quilt in Lady Bird

Yay, I finally get to share this finished quilt with you! Jelly Rolls aren't a precut that I have usually stocked up on and I knew that I wanted to make a second version of the Freya Quilt pattern using a jelly roll, so it was an excellent excuse to pick up one in the Lady Bird collection.

If you read my blog or follow me on Instagram, you might have noticed that I am a huge fan of this collection (click here to read more about that).

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The Freya Quilt Pattern in Florida Vol. 2

When I posted a photo of this jelly roll on Instagram a few weeks ago, a few of you noticed that this collection contains a whole lot of my favorite color! Purple is a little tricky to find in fabrics and  Florida Volume 2 by Sarah Watts does it so well. It was the perfect collection for the cover of the Freya Quilt pattern. 

 

This is such a fun collection with a great mix of colors, lots of changes in scale, and several prints that will work really well as basics (particularly the sand prints - they are amazing!). 

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New Pattern - The Freya Quilt

I have a new pattern for you today - meet the Freya Quilt!

This pattern is great because it works with jelly roll strips, fat eighths, fat quarters, OR it is perfect for scraps or stashbusting. 

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Lady Bird

I don't think it's really a secret that I have WAY TOO MUCH FABRIC in my sewing room.

So when a new collection is released and I don't have any definite plans for it, I try to talk myself out of buying any. After including the collection in several different mockups recently, I finally bit the bullet on Black Friday and picked up a jelly roll of Lady Bird.

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