Twinkle Quilt - Sweet Acres

-- Twinkle Quilt: Sweet Acres --

Hi Quilty Friends! I’m excited to share my TwinkleQuilt featuring the newest fabric collection: Sweet Acres designed by Beverly McCullough.  Sweet Acres is a sweet collection of florals, farm life, stripes, and geometric prints in cheerful colors! Such a perfect collection for spring quilting! 

I absolutely love to fussy cut fabric prints when quilting! I love choosing a specific pattern such as cute barn animals or florals to be a focus for a quilt block. The fussy cut blocks add extra interest to your quilt and only takes a bit of extra time. When I'm fussy cutting fabric, my favorite tools are: Lori Holt Cute Cuts Trim it Rulers plus the Sue Daley Rotating Cutting mat (both products are produced by Riley Blake Designs)

Twinkle Quilt 56.8" x 69.5" 

Twinkle Quilt Supplies

• Twinkle Quilt Pattern
• 10 Fat Quarters - extra for a more scrappy quilt: Sweet Acres designed by Beverly McCullough
• 1.25 yards background: Riley Blake Designs Confetti Cloud
• 1.5 yards sashing: Sweet Acres designed by Beverly McCullough
• 1 yard* outer border: If you prefer to fussy cut the border - you will need 1.5 - 1.75 yards. Sweet Acres designed by Beverly McCullough
• 0.625 yard binding: Sweet Acres designed by Beverly McCullough
• 3.75 yards backing: Sparkler by Melissa Mortensen

Twinkle Quilt is a bit bigger than the Twinkle Pattern because I fussy cut my outer border strips a bit larger at 4.5" x WOF. Plus I love a perfect striped fabric for binding!!!!

Half-Square Triangle Tips

My two favorite methods for creating perfect half-square triangles for the Twinkle Quilt are: 

• AccuQuilt GO! Half-Square Triangle Die (my favorite as no trimming is needed) OR
• Bloc-loc Half-Square Triangle Ruler

Sweet Acres Fabric available HERE

Twinkle Quilt Pattern available in my Pattern Shop or Etsy

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Have a great day and happy sewing / quilting! 

Melanie 

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Twinkle Quilt - Uni the Unicorn

I am so excited to share the most magical quilt today - Twinkle Quilt with Uni the Unicorn fabric designed by Riley Blake Designs. My daughter absolutely loooooves her new quilt!

When I told her I was going to make her a quilt with Uni the Unicorn fabric and that she got to choose the pattern - she was sooooo excited! She looked through my patterns and chose Twinkle so I could fussy cut the block centers. She is so right- definitely a future quilter! (Twinkle pattern available here)

She is quite the quilt supervisor/motivator by asking me daily- "Is my quilt ready to snuggle yet?". Ha! Of course, the Riley Blake Minky backing fabric helped the snuggle factor!

I absolutely love the magical and sweet - Uni the Unicorn Fabric Collection so I did use more prints (plus some Riley Blake Design Basics) than the pattern requires. I couldn't limit myself to 10 prints ;) Just look at them!

Ready to make your own Twinkle -Uni the Unicorn Quilt 
57.5" x 69.5" *

Supplies:

• Twinkle Quilt Pattern (HERE)
• 10 Fat Quarters - Uni the Unicorn by Riley Blake Designs plus Riley Blake Designs Basics. I used more than 10 fat quarters as I couldn't just pick 10 fabrics.
• 1.25 yards Background - Confetti Cottons Petal Pink by Riley Blake Designs
• 1.5 yards Sashing - Uni the Unicorn by Riley Blake Designs
• 1 or 1.5* yard Outer Border - Uni the Unicorn by Riley Blake Designs
• 0.625 yard Binding - Riley Blake Designs 1/8" Peony Stripe
• 3.75 yards Backing - Riley Blake Designs Cloud Minky

OPTIONAL:

AccuQuilt GO! Qube for cutting your half-square triangles - NO trimming! 

or

Bloc-loc Ruler for trimming half-square triangles

Pattern Changes:

I used 1.5 yards Uni the Unicorn Border Fabric because I wanted to make sure Uni was standing up and not on her side ;). I also cut my outer borders at 4.5" x WOF as it worked best for the size of the print. Tip- When piecing border strips, sew them together over a flower or mostly solid part of the print as the seam will be less noticeable. 

I'm so glad that my daughter absolutely loves her new Twinkle Quilt! She also loves that she chose the pattern for her special quilt!

I remembered that I had one more of the With Love Woven Quilt Labels (here)...so I added it to the quilt! She loves it! 

I absolutely loved making this magical Twinkle Quilt with Uni the Unicorn Fabric. I love the unicorns, stars, flowers, and butterflies - simply so sweet!

Be sure to purchase your Twinkle Quilt Pattern HERE

Uni the Unicorn fabric is shipping to your favorite quilt shop in August.

Be sure to follow me on Instagram @ABitofScrapStuff  and here on my A Bit of Scrap Stuff Blog for more fabric fun!

Have a great day and happy quilting! 

Melanie

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Zinnias in Bloom Projects

Zinnias in Bloom Collection by Sue Zipkin for Clothworks is available at your local quilt shop PLUS I found it on Amazon -here!

I wanted to share all the amazing projects I made with this absolutely gorgeous fabric! The prints are lovely and the bright colors are so happy! I love the Zinnias in Bloom fabric! Time for sharing all my projects!

Zinnias in Bloom Table Runner

My first project was my Zinnias in Bloom Table Runner using my Twinkle Quilt Pattern! To create the summery table runner - I made (3) Twinkle Blocks and used 2" sashing to lengthen the project! I absolutely love it! My Twinkle Quilt Blocks were perfect as the large center square is perfect for showing off the gorgeous fabric!!!

Guess what - I love being thrifty with my fabric so I used my left overs to make a scrappy backing - yay!!! It's totally reversible now!

Supplies:

• Twinkle Quilt Pattern- Available at my Payhip Site
• Zinnias in Bloom Fabric Collection by Sue Zipkin for Clothworks
• American Made Brand Solid - White
• AccuQuilt GO! (optional - but so awesome as you won't need to trim your half-square triangles)

Zinnias in Bloom Large Zippered Bag

When I received the Zinnias in Bloom border print - I knew it make the perfect large zippered bag! The panel is absolutely stunning and perfect for this bag! This bag is HUGE - about 18" x 22"!!! I love how it holds sooooo much and shows the beautiful border print!

 

I love the large floral print near the selvage and then the open white center with tiny butterflies and florals. Absolutely stunning!

 

I used American Made Brand Solid for the lining- I love the pop of color! I made this larger zippered bag just like a zipper pouch, but added handles! I'll try to make a tutorial next time I sew another one! They are super fun to make!

Supplies:

Zinnias in Bloom Fabric Collection by Sue Zipkin for Clothworks

Zinnias in Bloom Border Print Panel

American Made Brand Solid

YKK handbag zipper - the larger zipper pull and tape is so nice for large bags!

Zinnias in Bloom Zipper Pouch

When my daughter saw the Monarch Butterly print - she requested a large zipper pouch. So of course, I had to sew one! The detail in this print is gorgeous! 

I love to sew zipper pouches! They are such a quick project to sew and so useful! I don't think you can every have too many :) 

Supplies:

• Zinnias in Bloom Fabric Collection by Sue Zipkin for Clothworks
• YKK Zipper (trim to size)

I absolutely loved sewing with Zinnias in Bloom! The fabrics are gorgeous and made me so happy to sew with! I just love a happy fabric!!!

Be sure to check your local quilt store for the Zinnias in Bloom  Collection or if you are an Amazon shopper - it's available here too!

    

Have a great day and happy sewing! 

Be sure to follow me on Instagram @ABitofScrapStuff  and here on my A Bit of Scrap Stuff Blog for more fabric fun!

Melanie

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Twinkle Quilt - NEW Quilt Pattern with Kindred Spirits

Hello fabric friends! I'm so excited to share a brand NEW pattern - the Twinkle Quilt with the lovely Kindred Spirits -Anne of Green Gables fabric by Jill Howarth for Riley Blake Designs. I loved reading Anne of Green Gables as a girl and just recently listened to the audiobook version - I don't think you are ever to old for Anne and her adventures!

 Kindred Spirits -Anne of Green Gables fabric is full of florals, text , stripes, and of course Anne! I designed the Twinkle pattern with a large block center, which is perfect for fussy cutting this delightful fabric! 

"We ought to always to try to influence others for good. " I LOVE this!

Twinkle Quilt

Twinkle Quilt finishes at 50.5" x 60.5", but can easily be made larger or smaller by creating more or less blocks! I love block based patterns for this reason! Plus Twinkle Quilt Pattern is on sale for $5 (here) for one week - yay!

The Twinkle Quilt is also perfect for scraps as each block uses (3) different prints plus the background. You could even go super scrappy and use scrappy low volume for the background.

What you need:
Twinkle Quilt - 50.5" x 60.5"

Twinkle Quilt Pattern (here) - on sale for $5 for one week
10 Fat Quarters - Kindred Spirits
1.25 yards background - Swiss Dots Green
0.5 yard inner border - Swiss Dots Green
0.75 yard outer border- Kindred Spirits
0.5 yard binding - Kindred Spirits
3.5 yards backing
Hobbs 80/20 Batting

OPTIONAL: 
- Bloc-Loc half-square Triangle Ruler
- For my AccuQuilt fans - Twinkle Quilt pattern is also compatible with the AccuQuilt GO! 8" Mix and Match Cube -yay! No trimming those half-square triangles!


I purchased my Anne of Green Gables book at Amazon (single or set)