Friday, May 19, 2017

Garden Party Star Quilt with Fort Worth Fabric Studio


This week is the lovely Garden Party Friday Bundle Batch with Fort Worth Fabric Studio! I just love all those pink fabrics together! This Star Quilt Tutorial is my favorite as it uses the entire 8 fat quarters plus one yard of background fabric to make the quilt top and scrappy binding for a lap size quilt!!!! Keep reading for the Star Quilt Tutorial.

Garden Party Fat Quarter Bundle in Pink


  1. Dainty Darling Pink Squares - Riley Blake
  2. Finger Painted Flowers Pink Dots - Windham
  3. Sew & Sew Floral Garden Strawberry/Whipped Cream - Moda
  4. Marble Swirls Raspberry - Moda
  5. Sevenberry Classiques Mini Baby Pink Hearts - Robert kaufman
  6. Wonderland Two Floral Pink - Riley Blake
  7. Sevenberry Petite Dots Hot Pink - Robert Kaufman
  8. Carousel Tonal Pink Flowers - P&B Textiles


Star Points - 4 Fat Quarters  (cut from each fat quarter):
(1) 12" Square - cut on diagonal to make 2 triangles
(2) 4.5" x 11.5" Rectangles
(2) 2.5 x 18" Binding 

*Hint for cutting for fat quarters. Cut (1) 12" x 21" rectangle. Then subcut the (1) 12" square. This will leave you with (1) 9" x 12" rectangle- subcut into (2) 4.5" x 11.5"rectangles. 












Star Center - 4 Fat Quarters (cut from each fat quarter):
(1) 11.5" square
(2) 4.5" x 11.5" Rectangles
(2) 2.5 x 18" Binding 













Background - Riley Blake Swiss Dots in Pink
(4) 12" Squares- cut on diagonal to make 2 triangles from each square (total of 8)
(4) 11.5" Squares















Corner 4-patches
(16) 2.5" squares (I cut these from my binding strips above)
















Sewing
1. Sew (1) Star Point Triangle to (1) Background triangle to create a 11.5" half-square triangle. Make 8 total.

2. Sew (4) four-patch blocks to create corner blocks

3. Layout squares as shown below and sew together.


4. Quilt. I chose to stipple-meander my quilt. I "might" be addicted to stippling....I just can't stop! :)



5.  Bind. I just love a scrappy binding! Plus the backing matches perfectly!!!


A bit more about the backing fabric: Flutter & Float Flower Crown Pink by Blend Fabrics


This fabric is a perfect match for your quilt. I even tried something new...matching up the pattern for the backing seam! This fabric is perfect for seam matching as the pattern repeat is small so not much fabric waste!!! I will definitely do this again!

The color is a off in this picture, but the seam almost hidden :) 

I just love this Garden Party Star Quilt!!! I'm so excited to give this quilt to a very special teacher!!!




Thank you again to Fort Worth Fabric Studio for having me sew this quilt with this fabulous Garden Party Fat Quarter Bundle!!! Be sure to grab your bundle here before it sells out. Tag your projects on social media with #sewingwithfwfabricstudio and @fwfabricstudio and me @mellierc

Happy Friday!!!
Melanie

4 comments:

  1. It's so pretty! Thank you for the tutorial!

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  2. I really like this quilt. It is a lovely gesture to give this to a beloved teacher. Thank you for sharing the tutorial and inspiration

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