Summer Picnic Quilt

I love a good summer quilt. I knew I wanted to include one in Playful Precut Quilts. I was inspired by the soft tones of Sweet Tea by Moda – kind of a muted red white and blue quilt.

This quilt uses precut 2.5″ strips which makes it sew up super fast.

My friend Jessica Dayon made this stunning fall version so now I want to rename the quilt Fall Picnic 🙂 Look at these colors!!!

I love the colors she used in this quilt. She’s a super talented quilt designer – make sure you stop over to her blog to read about her version of this quilt.

One Block Wallhanging

In my book Playful Precut Quilts each block finishes at 12″ square. This means that you can mix around the blocks and customize quilts to what inspires you!

In the book I offer instructions to make a One Block Wallhanging, a Three Block Table Runner, and a Four Block Wallhanging.

Here is the sample I made for the book using the Scrappy Hearts block.

My friend Gracey from Burlap and Blossoms made this adorable version using the block from Sunday Drive as the center. It’s so bright and cheery!!!

My friend from Amy from Ameroonie Designs made this farmhouse version of the One Block Wallhanging using the Vintage Treasures block in the center. Look how amazing!!!!

I love how you can change the fabrics and the center block to get such different feels! I love quilt patterns that are versatile!!!

Gingham Patches Quilt

Who doesn’t love gingham!!! I love love love gingham! I love that gingham patches are the focal point of these blocks from my quilt from Playful Precut Quilts.

I paired the country feel of gingham with a modern feel of solid colors for a sophisticated take on gingham.

But don’t let the gingham box you into one design for this quilt! Look what my friend Melanie from Hello Melly Designs made! A Christmas version and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!

This makes the perfect Christmas quilt and how fun to have nice size block centers to show off your favorite Christmas fabric! Be sure to visit Melanie’s blog for lots more inspiration!!!

My friend Melissa from Polkadot Chair also saw “Christmas” in this quilt pattern and she made these super fun blocks with her latest fabric Santa Claus Lane.

I love the fussy cut centers! She is going to turn them into pillows! Be sure to visit her blog to read more!

Scrappy Hearts Quilt

Scrappy Hearts is a fast and easy 5″ precut square quilt from Playful Precut Quilts. I love the original design which features a dark gray background. It really lets the hearts pop!

My friend Kristina from Center Street Quilts made this version of Scrappy Hearts using a dark gray background and New Dawn by Citrus and Mint for Riley Blake Designs. I love the bright pink and green in this!

Be sure to visit Kristina’s blog for more details on her quilt and for lots of quilty inspiration – she’s one talented gal!

Vintage Treasures Quilt

I knew when I was writing Playful Precut Quilts I wanted a soft vintage-y (is that a word?) quilt in my book. My friend Bev from Flamingo Toes designs the cutest fabrics for Riley Blake Designs so I knew her line Vintage Keepsake would be perfect!

Bev made her own version of this quilt and it’s the cutest ever!

I love the bright cheerful fabrics she choose. Stop over at Bev’s blog to read all about her version!

Rise and Shine Quilt

I love how seeing different versions of the same quilt can bring inspiration!

This quilt is called Rise and Shine and it’s part of my Playful Precut Quilts book.

Recently my friend Andy from A Bright Corner made Rise and Shine in all solids and I am super in love with it!

Isn’t this amazing!!

I love the colors she chose. Andy has a great eye for color and placement!

Make sure to hop over to her blog to read all about her version of the quilt!!

Swiss Kiss

Recently a friend was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Sometimes you just don’t know what to do to help. I kept thinking about her and wanted her to feel loved. So of course I turned to quilting! I began quilting to give gifts and to make them for my children. Giving a quilt as a gift is one of the nicests gestures of love and friendship I can think of.

To support Breast Cancer Awareness month I am offering this quilt pattern as a free PDF for the month of October. You can find the pattern in my Etsy shop after that.

Since this quilt is made up of all the same size squares you can alter it to any size!

Use your stash and all your scraps! The more variety the better!!

Purfect Day

Did you know I love cat fabric? hahaha! When I see a new cat fabric I MUST have it! So of course when Riley Blake Designs released Perfect Day I knew it was for me!!!

I love the color palate of this line – soft aqua, pink and greens with gray. You could totally make this a little boy quilt and omit the pink or make it a little girl quilt and keep the pink! Or you could just make something for yourself like I did!!!

I thought it would be fun to make something from my book Playful Precut Quilts and use the mix and match suggestion! So I did!

I choose these 3 blocks:

Colonial Flowers

Garden Cat

Sunday Drive

I wanted blocks that would require no sashing. The cats have a border built into the block which is great to add some space to the quilt.

Here is the design I came up with! I added a small inner border and then a checkerboard border made with 2 .5″ squares that finish 2″.

Isn’t it funny how changing fabric can totally change the look of a block or quilt! I loved using a dark background on this quilt. The colors were so soft that I didn’t want them lost in a white background. I think it works!!

Gingham Picnic Quilt Pattern

I love creating new quilt patterns and my favorite quilt is always the one I’m currently working on!

I saw Midsummer Meadow by Riley Blake Designs and I immediately fell in love! I love all the tones of teal and coral! I knew I needed to make a quilt!

The fabric line had such a great variety shades within the collection that I thought it would be fun to design a quilt that had a “gingham” effect.

Just look at how amazing all these fabrics are!!

This quilt pattern is great for confident beginners and up. It’s a fun way to make stars without any of the fuss of cutting triangles or matching points. This is such a cheater version!! Which means you can sew this quilt up super fast!

The quilt measures 62″ x 74″ which is such a great throw size!

You can purchase the PDF pattern in my Etsy shop for instant download.

The quilt is made up of 10″ blocks with sashing. I think this would be the cutest ever Christmas quilt or Halloween quilt!

100% Mufasa approved!

Happy Quilting!

Be sure to tag me in your pictures @jedicraftgirl and use the tag #ginghampicnicquilt

Playful Precut Quilts Blog Tour

The Playful Precut Quilts Blog Tour starts today!! For the next month a team of amazing quilt designers will be putting their spin on one of the quilts from my new book!

I love all the patterns in Playful Precut Quilts! I thought I would kick things off by showing what you can do by combining 2 quilt blocks from the book.

One of my favorite things about Playful Precut Quilts is that you can interchange the blocks because they are all 12″. This gives you so many ways to be creative!

I used the Gingham Patches Block and the Vintage Treasures Star Block to create this festive Christmas quilt.

Gingham Patches Quilt
Vintage Treasures Quilt

The fabrics are from A Festive Collection by Liberty Fabrics for Riley Blake Designs. The background fabric is dark gray linen by Riley Blake Designs. I love dark backgrounds!

I love that this combination of blocks requires NO SASHING!!! The star block already has space around it to give the quilt the look of sashing – only without all the fuss! So once the blocks are done you sew them together! You can totally make this in a weekend.

It’s time to get a jump on holiday sewing! I hope you love this quilt 🙂

Make sure to stop stop by each of my friends’ blogs to see what they’ve created! It’s going to be so fun!!!

Sep 8Andy Knowltonabrightcorner.com
Sep 11Beverly McCulloughflamingotoes.com
Sep 14Kristina Brinkerhoffwww.centerstreetquilts.com
Sep 18Melanie Collettehellomellydesigns.com
Sep 21Gracey Larsonburlapandblossompatterns.blogspot.com
Sep 25Christopher Thompsonthetattooedquilter.com
Sep 28Amy Chappellwww.amerooniedesigns.com
Oct 2Jessica DayonJessicadayon.blogspot.com
Oct 5Amy Smartdiaryofaquilter.com
Oct 9Melissa Mortensonpolkadotchair.com
Oct 12Jodi Nelson pleasanthome.co
Oct 16Amber Johnsonwww.gigisthimble.com