Timber Quilt : Yuletide Forest

 

Timber Quilt: Yuletide Forest 

It is a reversible quilt!

Hi Quilty friends! Today I'm sharing my Timber Quilt featuring Yuletide Forest designed by Katherine Lenius for Riley Blake Designs.

Timber Quilt Pattern

Yuletide Forest is a classic Christmas collection with winter foliage and deer plus the most awesome coordinating panel that is perfect for making a reversible quilt.

  

Timber Quilt 48.5" x 56.5"

Supplies:

• Timber Quilt Pattern: Pattern Shop or Etsy
• (42) 10" Squares: Yuletide Forest designed by Katherine Lenius for Riley Blake Designs
• (1) Yulide Forest Panel (backing) 54" x 65"
• 0.5 yard Binding: Yuletide Forest designed by Katherine Lenius for Riley Blake Designs

The Yuletide Forest Stripe print is perfect for the binding! I love a striped binding!

The Timber Quilt pattern is a beginner friendly pattern that focuses on the prints from the Yuletide Forest collection as no background fabric is needed for this quilt! 

One 10" Stacker contains (42) 10" squares, which is exactly how many squares are needed to make the Timber Quilt. I chose to omit the striped 10" squares and substituted extra deer prints as they are my favorite! So if you also want to substitute a few of the prints - grab a few extra fat quarters of your favorite print. 

As the Timber Quilt is block based, you can easily adjust the size of your quilt by making more or less blocks. Each Timber block requires one 10″ x 10″ square. 

Timber Quilt Pattern

Yuletide Forest Panel

The Yuletide Forest panel is 54" x 65" and is the most perfect backing! I did omit the borders from the Timber Quilt Pattern to avoid adding extra fabric to the panel edges. Of course, the Yuletide Forest Panel would also make a quick quilt - just add batting and backing!

Timber Quilt Pattern

Yuletide Forest Fabric Collection

I hope you enjoy making a Yuletide Forest: Timber Quilt for yourself or it is the perfect gift! 

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Melanie Call

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Sunrise Table Topper (or Wall Hanging) : Holiday Cheer

Hi Quilty friends! It's almost Christmas in July quilting season.  Are you ready to start sewing with the cutest Christmas Collection - Holiday Cheer. I loved choosing festive prints to make a Holiday table topper with the Sunrise Quilt Pattern. 

Sunrise Quilt Pattern

Holiday Cheer designed by My Mind's Eye for Riley Blake Designs is a vintage inspired Christmas collection with the cutest prints that are perfect for fussy cutting! I love the vintage Santas, stockings, wreaths, trees, and gingerbread cookies. So much Christmas cuteness!

Sunrise Table Topper or Wall Hanging  24" x 24"

Supplies

• Sunrise Quilt Pattern: Pattern Shop or Etsy
• (3) Fat Quarters: Holiday Cheer designed by My Mind's Eye for Riley Blake Designs
• (1) Fat Quarter: Bee Cross Stitch Alpine designed by Lori Holt for My Mind's Eye for Riley Blake Designs
• (1) Fat Quarter: Bee Cross Stitch on Cloud Alpine designed by Lori Holt for My Mind's Eye for Riley Blake Designs
• 1/4 yard Binding: Holiday Cheer designed by My Mind's Eye for Riley Blake Designs
• 1 yard Backing

Sunrise Quilt Pattern

Quarter-Square Triangle Block and Half-Square Triangle Block Tips

• Tip 1: Make the quarter-square triangle and half-square triangle block a bit larger and trim to size. I love the Bloc-Loc half-square triangle ruler for this method.

• Tip 2: Use the desired size of AccuQuilt GO! quarter-square triangle and half-square triangle die. THIS is my favorite method as it is so quick and no trimming needed

Machine Quilting

I completed the machine quilting with my Janome Embroidery Machine using Kimberbell Clear Blue Tiles with the included winter design. It was sooooo easy and looks  perfect! I highly recommend the Kimberbell Clear Blue Tiles System. I used Glide 40wt white thread and Superior (Organ) 90/14 Top stitch needle and all the stitches were perfect!

Sunrise Pattern Adjustments for Table Topper

Make (1) Sunrise Block 

Cutting Instructions:

• Red Text Fat Quarter: Cut (4) B; (4) D; (4) J

• Mint Green Stocking Fat Quarter: Cut (1) A; (8) B; (4) J

• Cream Wreath Fat Quarter: (8) H; (4) J

• Dark Green Alpine Fat Quarter: (4) B; (8) G; (4) F; (4) J

• Sashing Fabric: (4) Sashing Strips

• Binding Fabric: (2) 2.5" x WOF strips

Sunrise Quilt PDF Quilt Pattern

Holiday Cheer Fabric Collection

Kimberbell Clear Blue Tiles

I hope you enjoy making a Holiday Cheer Table Topper for yourself or it is the perfect gift! 

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Melanie Call

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Chain of Stars Quilt: Hey Bootiful

Chain of Stars Quilt: Hey Bootiful 

Hi Quilty Friends! Today I'm sharing my Chain of Stars Quilt featuring Hey Bootiful fabric designed by My Mind's Eye for Riley Blake Designs. The Hey Bootiful Collection is the perfect collection if you love "spooky cute" Halloween! Plus a few of the prints glow in the dark... so fun!

As I wanted to use allll the cute Hey Bootiful Fabrics, my Chain of Stars Quilt was the perfect match! Plus it's one of my favorite quilts to sew!

If you are new to quilting- Halloween Fabric arrives in Quilt Shops now so your Halloween projects can be done before the spooky day!

Chain of Stars Quilt Pattern

Chain of Stars Quilt 61.5" x 70.5"

Fabric Requirements:

• (42) 10" squares : (1) Hey Bootiful 10" Stacker
• 2.75 yards Background: Bee Cross Stitch on Cloud Pumpkin C747-Pumpkin
• 0.5 yard Gray Background: Dapple Dot Riley Gray C640-RileyGray
• 0.625 Binding: Hey Bootiful Plaid Off White
• 0.75 yard Orange Border: Hey Bootiful Sheets Ghosts Orange
• 0.75 yard Black Border Hey Bootiful Sheets Ghosts Charcoal Glow in the Dark
• 4 yards Backing: Seasonal Basic Bat Orange
• Chain of Stars PDF Quilt Pattern: Pattern Shop OR Etsy

Chain of Stars is a fabulous quilt for beginners as the stars are No Point Matching Stars, which means the points float in the background fabric so you don't have to match up the points when sewing blocks together - it's so much easier and your stars always have points! 

Chain of Stars Quilt is a block based quilt pattern so adjusting your quilt size is easy. One 10" square (plus background) makes 1 Chain of Stars Block. As I wanted to use the lighter prints in Hey Bootiful, I substituted 5 star background fabric with Dapple Dot Riley Gray and the white stars really shine now!

As I wanted my Chain of Stars Quilt a bit bigger, I added a border! Adding a border is a very quick and easy way to enlarge your quilt. Plus it is fun to choose your favorite print (or prints) to have a larger impact on your quilt!

OPTIONAL: Outer Border Instructions

The original Chain of Stars Quilt doesn't have a border, but adding an outer border is super easy! 

0.75 yard Black Border: Hey Bootiful Sheets Ghosts Charcoal Glow in the Dark

• Cut (5) 4" x Length of Fabric (27"). This will have your ghosts floating upright for side borders.
• Sew strips together to form one very long narrow strip
• Measure quilt length. Example Quilt Length of 63.5"*. Cut (2) outer border strips 4" x 63.5"*. Sew (1) outer border strip to right side of quilt and (1) outer border strip to left side of quilt.

0.75 yard Orange Border: Hey Bootiful Sheets Ghosts Orange

• Cut (4) 4" x Width of Fabric (40"). This will have your ghosts floating upright for top/bottom borders.
• Sew strips together to form one very long narrow strip
• Measure quilt width. Example Quilt Width of 61.5"*. Cut (2) outer border strips 4" x 61"*. Sew (1) outer border stripe to top of quilt and (1) outer border strip to bottom of quilt.

* Cut your border strips to the measured length and width of your quilt.

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Melanie Call

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JANOME TUTORIAL: Layered Cupcake Pillow Pattern

 

Hi  Friends! Today I'm excited to share a beginner friendly pillow pattern on the Janome Project Page and my blog too! The Layered Cupcake Pillow is perfect for left over 2.5" jelly roll strips or 5" charm packs or scraps. 

The Layered Cupcake Pillow Pattern finishes at 16" x 16", which is a mini version of my Layered Cake Quilt Pattern.  I'm using a Stateside 5" Charm Pack by Sweetwater to create my Layered Cupcake Pillow. The patriotic prints are perfect for summer decor!

Fabric Requirements

• (28) 2.5” rectangles – Label A  Stateside Fabric Collection by Sweetwater
• (8) 2.5” x 2.5 squares – Label B Stateside Fabric Collection by Sweetwater
• 20” x 20” Batting 
• 22” x 22” Pillow front backing *Optional. This fabric will be hidden in pillow interior
• Backing fabric: Size will depend on preferred method for Pillow Backing Closure
• 20” Nylon Zipper  
• 16” x 16” Pillow Form

Piecing Instructions

 

Row Style 1:

 - Sew together (4) A 2.5” x 4.5” rectangles.  A + A + A + A

Row measures 2.5” x 16.5”

-  Repeat step above until you have sewn (4) Row Style 1 rows.

 

Row Style 2:

- Sew together (3) A 2.5” x 4.5” rectangles. 

- Sew (1) B 2.5” x 2.5” square to each end. B + A + A + A + B

Row measures 2.5” x 16.5”

-  Repeat step above until you have sewn (4) Row Style 2 rows.

 

 

Pillow Front Assembly

 

1. Sew together Row 1 and Row 2 (alternating) until you have a total of 8 rows sewn together.

 

4.  Quilt and finish pillow with preferred method. 

• I quilted my pillow with straight-line quilting using my Janome M7 with AcuFeed Foot and stitch length 3.5. 

• For zipper installation - I used my Reversible Zippered Pillow Tutorial. My Layered Cupcake Pillow is truly reversible because for the backing I used (16) 4.5" x 4.5" squares sewn together as a 16 patch (4 rows of 4 squares). 

 

Zipper Pillow Finishing Tutorials:

• Reversible Zippered Pillow (zipper on bottom of pillow): https://abitofscrapstuff.blogspot.com/2022/05/janome-tutorial-reversible-zippered.html
• Exposed Zipper Pillow Tutorial (zipper on pillow backing) https://abitofscrapstuff.blogspot.com/2021/10/tutorial-adding-exposed-zippered-pillow.html

I hope you enjoy making your Layered Cupcake Pillow! I can't wait to see what fabrics you will choose to make your own pillow!

Layered Cupcake Pillow Pattern PDF Pattern - here

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Melanie Call

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