Modern Baby Quilt ~ Essex Yarn Dyed Classic Wovens

Last week I made a baby quilt for a friend who very recently welcomed a baby boy. I LOVE making baby quilts and while I had obviously known for some time that this baby was due to arrive any time now, the gender of the baby remained a surprise. I was really stuck on ideas for this gender neutral baby quilt that I had hoped to make well before the baby's arrival (so much procrastinating!) but as soon as I heard that the baby was a boy I immediately had a plan ... and a baby boy baby quilt (as well as a gender neutral baby quilt) was born! 

This is a quick and easy baby quilt made from squares, half square triangles, and hour glass blocks. The quilt top came together in a day and I basted, quilted, and added the binding over the next few days. The fabrics used are a mix of quilting cottons, cotton/linen blend fabrics (Essex Yarn Dyed Classic Wovens), as well as pieces of fabric from reclaimed men's shirts.  Stripes + Gingham = 💝. It really is such a classic and timeless combination, especially in this red, white, blue, and black color combination.

For the back of the quilt I have used my go-to backing fabric ~ Newsprint in Spackle by Carrie Bloomston from the Dreamer collection.  I have numerous odd size pieces of this fabric left over from piecing together previous quilt backs and it felt great to be able use up two of these fabric pieces for this baby quilt.

For the quilt binding I have used a red/white stripe fabric by Sevenberry - this is a regular repeat stripe across the width of the fabric, although the white stripe is slightly wider than the red stripe. 

QUILT DETAILS

Modern Baby Quilt ~ Essex Yarn Dyed Classic Wovens

The finished quilt measures 39 inches x 50 inches.

Each finished block measures 5½" x 5½".

Blocks: Squares, Half Square Triangles, and Hour Glass units.

(See Hour Glass Block Tutorial - I cut 7 inch squares

to piece the Hour Glass Units for this quilt and then trimmed

the blocks to measure 6 inches x 6 inches).

FABRICS USED:

Essex Yarn Dyed Classic Wovens

Reclaimed pieces of fabric from men's shirts.

Stripe fabric by Suzuko Koseki for Yuwa Fabrics to

create the boxed/cross effect Hour Glass units.

BATTING:

Low loft cotton batting.

QUILTING:
An all over grid created by stitching edge to edge
horizontal and vertical lines - evenly spaced by use of
a quilting guide attached to the walking foot.
THREAD for quilting:
Aurifil 28wt thread (the gray spool) for quilting:
 (28wt top thread - 40wt thread in the bobbin)
Machine Stitched Binding.

Click on any image for a larger view.

I am looking forward to seeing the new born baby and gifting this baby quilt!

Thank you for stopping by and scrolling through the many photos.
Rita

RELEVANT LINKS:
Sunday Stash: Essex Yarn Dyed Classic Wovens
Hour Glass Block Tutorial
More RPQ quilts with Reclaimed Fabrics

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Sunday Stash #437 Blueberry Park 3 by Karen Lewis

The Bright Color Story ...

Blueberry Park 3 by Karen Lewis

for Robert Kaufman 

The latest edition of Blueberry Park by Karen Lewis is now in stores!  Karen is a UK textile designer, screen printer, quilter and author of Screen Printing At Home: Print Your Own Fabric to Make Simple Sewn Projects. Karen is known in the fabric and quilting industry for her unique screen printed designs on a range of fabrics, and has partnered with Robert Kaufman Fabrics ~ printing Karen's designs on their popular range of solid fabric - Kona Cotton. 

Blueberry Park - Plus

This latest collection has been released in two color stories; a bright and a neutral color palette. Pictured here today is the bright color palette, and who doesn't like a good rainbow of colors? The bright color palette consists of twenty fabrics, two distinct designs as pictured above, and printed in twenty different colors ranging from soft pastels to dark and saturated in color. 

Blueberry Park - Flower Fans 

Theses fabrics are wonderful stash basics; easy to mix and match with other fabric collections and printed on my preferred solid fabric, Kona Cotton. The range of colors now available is extensive - a rainbow of colors and more - and I am sure you will continue to see snippets of this collection pop up in my quilts.

BLUEBERRY PARK 3 is available from:
The Fat Quarter Shop
Stash Fabrics


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Enjoy Sunday!
Rita

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One Patch Quilt - Row Houses

A Finished Quilt.

QUILT DETAILS

One Patch Quilt - Row Houses

The finished quilt measures 55 inches x 66 inches.

396 house pieces and 22 half-house pieces.

Machine pieced - inset seams.

Machine quilted.

Quilt design from the book:

One-Patch Quilts (Twenty to Make) by Carolyn Forster.

Printed fabric:

150+ different printed fabrics by various designers/fabric houses.

Batting:

Low loft cotton batting.

This was such a fun project to work on! Fun because I love a good scrap buster quilt - I do actually enjoy methodically working my way through my fabric stash and cutting a small piece here and there for whatever project I am working on - and I love to continue challenging my sewing skills (although these inset seams are not as tricky as they look!). 

I have quilted this quilt by first ditch-stitching all of the straight horizontal seam lines, and then adding vertical lines of stitching through both the center of each of the little houses as well as in the seam of the houses. This has created a rectangular grid of quilting lines, adding interest in an understated way, and allowing the fabrics to tell the story. There is a lot to see!

For the back of the quilt I have used a hoarded much loved floral fabric from the popular Katie Jump Rope collection by Denyse Schmidt. I do have a significant stash of "backing fabrics" - yardage bought specifically for a quilt back. These are usually fabrics that I LOVE, but I have difficulty parting with. However, it is only fabric and now is as good a time as any to use these stashed fabrics. And I am super pleased with this combination of prints and the bright and cheerful backing fabric.

For the quilt binding I have stayed true to my signature style ... a black and white stripe fabric. This particular black/white stripe fabric is by Sevenberry; the stripe is a regular repeat however the black stripe is slightly narrower in width than the white stripe.

This quilt is available for purchase from my Etsy Store.

All the listing details here:

One Patch Quilt - Row Houses

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you for stopping by!
Rita

RELEVANT LINKS:
Red Pepper Quilts Etsy Store
One Patch Quilt - Row Houses ~ Work in Progress
Book reference: One-Patch Quilts (Twenty to Make) by Carolyn Forster
More RPQ One-Patch Quilts
More RPQ Quilts with Inset Seams
RPQ TUTORIALS with Inset Seams:
Machine Piecing a Hexagon Quilt
Kansas Dugout Quilt Block Tutorial
Spool Block and Nine Patch Block Tutorial

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Sunday Stash #436 Essex Yarn Dyed Classic Wovens

Essex Yarn Dyed Classic Wovens

by Robert Kaufman Fabrics

Oh I have been eagerly anticipating the release of this collection! Essex Yarn Dyed Classic Wovens are everything you love about Robert Kaufman Essex Yarn Dyed Linen fabrics but now also available in woven plaids and stripes, all in a great range of classic colors and neutrals.

Wide Stripe

Narrow Stripe

There are nineteen fabrics in the collection but just three very classic designs - two stripes; one narrow (1/8th inch) and one wider stripe (½" wide) - and a medium scale windowpane plaid fabric (about 1½" squares). The fabric base is a lovely and breezy cotton/linen blend and suitable for clothing and of course quilt making!

Windowpane Plaid

ESSEX YARN DYED CLASSIC WOVENS are available from:
The Fat Quarter Shop
Stash Fabrics
I Love Fabric
Jones & Vandermeer

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Enjoy Sunday!

Rita

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One Patch Quilt - Row Houses

Work in Progress.

A new week and a new project! This quilt is everything that I love about fabric and patchwork. I love a scrappy quilt and working from stash ... I love working with contrasting - light/dark - fabrics especially playing with low volume fabrics ... and I love a simple patchwork design. I also enjoy a challenge and working with inset seams does exactly that. 

One-Patch Quilts (Twenty to Make)

This little book - One-Patch Quilts (Twenty to Make) by Carolyn Forster - caught my eye at the Melbourne Quilt Convention in April. At the time I was working on my Scrappy Apple Core Quilt and the image of the Apple Core Quilt on the cover of the book made me stop and flick through the pages of the book. In doing so I spotted a project with the cutest rows of houses and knew I needed to add it to my list of quilts to make. And so this book came home with me. It is only a little book, but it is a gem for inspiration!

A one-patch quilt is a quilt made from a single repeating shape and featured in the book is inspiration for 20 such projects - each a different patch - in order of difficulty, starting with a square and ending with an apple core shape. Further shapes included are half rectangle triangles, diamonds, kites, half and whole hexagons, jewel, and apple core shapes. The instructions are basic however if you are a sewer with some quilt making experience, and better still experience with inset seams, this is the a great book for ideas and inspiration.

On each project page there is a template for the basic shape at actual size. Rather than photocopy the shape and use a paper template to cut my fabric pieces, I resized my "house" shape so that I could quickly and easily cut a rectangular fabric piece with rotary cutter and ruler, then lob off the corners with a 90 degree angle ruler. I then also marked a ¼" seam line with a pencil around the shape to assist with sewing the inset seams that join the "rooftops" of the shapes together. A time consuming task but worth it for the sake of accuracy.

This quilt with it's many inset seams is not as difficult to sew together as it may look. It does involve a lot of stop/start sewing but you're still only sewing a straight line, and starting and stopping at a marked spot. Furthermore with this quilt design you are only ever working with two horizontal rows at a time when sewing the inset seams (rather than wrangling the whole quilt top under the machine). Once the "rooftop" rows are sewn together (a light row of houses + a dark row of houses), the remainder seams are all long straight seams.

QUILT DETAILS

One Patch Quilt - Row Houses

Quilt top measures 55 inches x 66 inches.

396 house pieces and 22 half-house pieces.
150+ different fabrics.
Machine pieced.

Quilt design from the book:

One-Patch Quilts (Twenty to Make) by Carolyn Forster.

Now ready for basting and quilting ....

More soon,
Rita

RELEVANT LINKS:
Book reference: One-Patch Quilts (Twenty to Make) by Carolyn Forster
More RPQ One-Patch Quilts
More RPQ Quilts with Inset Seams
RPQ TUTORIALS with Inset Seams:
Machine Piecing a Hexagon Quilt
Kansas Dugout Quilt Block Tutorial
Spool Block and Nine Patch Block Tutorial

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