Garden Party Star Quilt in Blue with Fort Worth Fabric Studio

This week is the lovely Garden Party in Blue Friday Bundle Batch with Fort Worth Fabric Studio! I just love all those blue fabrics together! Does this quilt look familiar???? It's the matching one to the Garden Party in Pink Bundle!

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 Blue

You'll receive 1 Fat Quarter of each:

1. La Dee Da Navy Bloom - Michael Miller
2. Maze Spa - Robert Kaufman
3. Dainty Darling Squares Aqua - Riley Blake
4. Maze Navy - Robert Kaufman
5. Sewing School Text Blue - Ella Blue
6. Dainty Darling Diamond Aqua - Riley Blake
7. Swiss Dots Navy with White Dots - Riley Blake
8. Marble Swirls Turquoise - Moda

Tutorial for Garden Party Star Quilt (53" x 53")

Supplies

1. Garden Party Fat Quarter Bundle in blue

2. Riley Blake Swiss Dot Navy- 1 yard (1.5 yard if cutting oops) -Riley Blake Swiss Dots is my favorite background fabric...it is always the right choice :)

3. Flutter & Float by Ana Davis for Blend Fabrics in Blue- 3.5 yards- This is the perfect backing for this quilt!

4. Aurifil thread

Cutting -Be careful cutting as you will use almost the entire fat quarter. 

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 Navy

(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 Blue by Blend Fabrics

This fabric is a perfect match for your quilt. This fabric is perfect for seam matching as the pattern repeat is small so minimal fabric waste!!! I will definitely do this again!

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. This quilt is also for another fabulous teacher! My boys have had wonderful teachers this year!

Tag your projects on social media with #sewingwithfwfabricstudio and @fwfabricstudio and me @mellierc

Happy Friday!!!

Melanie

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