Quilt Ideas - Christmastime

It is now December and we are in full Christmas-mode over here. All of the Christmas music, all of the sweet treats, and now all of the fabric. These mockups use a collection called Christmastime by Tim Holtz. His collections are always such a fun mix of scale, color, value, and texture. They are eclectic but still cohesive so working with them is more like working with scraps or a custom bundle than a fabric collection. 

I threw in some old favorite patterns for these mockups because even though they are old, they are still favorites. Plus there are a couple of newer patterns in here. 

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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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The Sadie Quilt Pattern Mockups and Pattern Tester Quilts

I have a double dose of inspiration for you today because I have the pattern tester quilts from when the Sadie Quilt pattern was originally released + some mockups I made using newer fabric collections.

This pattern does really well with lots of different styles of fabric so this should give you some good ideas. I am particularly loving the Strawberry & Friends version and I think I'm probably going to pick up a precut of the collection after I write this blog post. 

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The Sadie Quilt in Lovely Hunt

This is a fun version of the Sadie Quilt Pattern to share because I used one of my favorite collections of all time — The Lovely Hunt by Lizzy House.

I had this collection sitting on my shelf for a long time before I finally felt like I had the right project for it. This quilt was on the cover of the original pattern.

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The Sadie Quilt in Picnic

Today I am going to be re-sharing the quilt that originally inspired the Sadie Quilt Pattern — this is the Sadie Quilt in Picnic.

It's funny reading the original blog post about this quilt, because I completely forgot that I did a few custom order quilts. To be honest, I do not particularly enjoy custom order quilts because I like to work on my own crazy schedule, but this quilt in particular was a lot of fun. The customer wanted me to use this collection (Picnic by Melody Miller) and I hadn't been able to justify buying the collection for myself so I was happy to have the excuse.

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The Sadie Quilt Pattern - New and Improved

A few years ago, I released my Sadie Quilt Pattern. I love this pattern, but I was never very happy with the photograph on the cover so making a new quilt and photographing it has been on my (very long) to do list. Then a few months ago, Ruby Star Society included the pattern in their lookbook using a fun new collection called Twirl and I knew it was time.

But of course, I couldn't just take a new photo. Here are some things that have changed in the new pattern:

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Curiouser and Curiouser - Quilt Ideas

This week, I am testing out Tula Pink's newest collection - Curiouser and Curiouser. Tula always has such fun. whimsical collections and I love that she has been doing more 108" fabrics for backing. I am much more likely to sew with a collection when there is a coordinating wide back print.

To be totally honest, one of the reasons why I picked this collection to play around with this week is because it has some purple prints and I am a sucker for purple. I particularly love this purple floral print and these blue-ish/purple cats.

I had a few suggestions for future collections here and on Instagram - I'm excited to share them in the next few weeks!

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