Quilt Ideas — Urban Homestead Gatherings

A few weeks ago when I released the Jonah Quilt Pattern, several people commented that they were excited to see a pattern that was easily made a little more masculine. Me too! I don't think a quilt for a girl needs to be feminine or a quilt for a boy needs to be masculine — it really doesn't matter — but I do think that it is a little trickier to find patterns that lean more masculine if that is what you are looking for.

Then I started to think that which of my other patterns would lend themselves well to this type of project. I saw a new woven collection from Primitive Gatherings called Urban Homestead Gatherings. I happen to really love gray and brown, they are two of my favorite colors, even though I mostly sew with bright colors and this collection does gray and brown really well so I put together some quilt ideas.

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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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Sincerely Yours - Quilt Ideas

It has been a little bit since I did one of these posts - the Penny QAL has taken over my life! -  but I saw Sincerely Yours by Sherri and Chelsi for Moda and it looked like the perfect collection for some mockups.

As a child of the 80s/early 90s, I love pink and purple together and these collection really leans into those color combinations. And it has the cutest heart prints.

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A Scrappy Ruth Quilt

I have been a bad blogger lately and have quite a backlog of projects to share with you - I am hoping to share at least one a week over the next little bit so prepare for lots of quilts!

There are two things that I am always interested in trying on a pattern - a rainbow version and a scrappy version. These don't work with every pattern, but they do work most of them time and they can really transform the look. 

Recently, I have been cutting down the majority of the fabrics in my scrap bin into uniform sizes so that (1) they take up less space and (2) so they aren't a jumbled mess. This was all around the same time that I was writing my Ruth Quilt pattern and it occurred to me that some of the squares I had been cutting were the same size as the squares in the pattern - I had to do it!

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