Blue Frog Quilt Pattern

New Pattern Alert! This is the Blue Frog quilt pattern and I am delighted with it! I know it's not that blue and it doesn't look like a frog. Let's face it. Naming quilt patterns is getting more and more challenging. But there is a method to my madness. I had these colors in mind when I designed the quilt. I've been using my solids up this fall and there are these pesky green ones that didn't seem to go with much. So I grabbed all of them and then asked myself what goes with green? Well blue of course! So then I had the blues all audition for the part and this is the resulting cast. 

This pattern was so helpful in using both yardage and 2.5" strips. I had a bunch of that in these blues and greens too. I even put the directions in there for fat quarters just to hit everything you might have on hand. So grab what you have and make this quilt!. 

I even found two blue greens for the back and put a hard to use green in between them. I tied in the black and white accent fabrics by using a black and white print for the binding. 

Back to where the blue frog comes in. I was on the internet one day and I saw a picture of a blue frog. They are beautiful! Why not use that for my pattern name. So then came this blue and black version which reminds me of the blue frog. If I hadn't already had my fabrics picked I would have switched to these. 

Both the previous versions use a solid black and a solid white as the accent colors, but I wanted to see what it might look like with a pop of raspberry, also lovely.

For this last version, I used two white prints from the fabric collection for the accent fabrics. It adds just enough interest and breaks up the darker colored pieces. 

The Blue Frog Quilt Pattern is in my shop here. Tag me on Instagram when you finish yours. I'd love to see it. 

Scrap Snap Quilt

60 x 72

The Scrap Snap quilt pattern is one of my favorite scrappy quilt patterns. I think this is my fourth one so far. I love all the different fabrics that get put into it and you get to lay it out however you want and it still looks great. When I put the binding on, it was fun to go from color to color around the quilt. 

 

This white/gray print needed a bit of color so I threw together a few more scraps for a strip down the back. Looks much more impressive in person. That white fabric is hard to capture. 

I will have to make myself one of these someday. But today this one is for sale. Find it here in my shop.

Sparkly Rainbow HST Quilt

How about a little sparkle in your quilt? This is a design I came up with to use up all of those solids I have in my stash. Well not all of them, there are still several that didn't make it into this quilt. But I did manage to incorporate 65 different colors. Whew that was a lot! Do you have that many Kona Cottons in your stash or am I the only one?

I tried to remove some of them to get it down to 50, but taking some of them out changed the look of the quilt a bit. I suppose it could be done in the grand scheme of things, but I love all the colors in there so I didn't take any out. 
 

A nice neutral gray and a black bind finished off this quilt. 

I'd love to know if you keep that many solids on hand. Is this too many fabrics for a quilt pattern?

Triple Dot in Red White and Blue

I just finished this customer requested quilt. He chose my Triple Dot pattern. He also chose the fabric line American Gatherings. The pattern calls for a half yard of three colors or 3 of each color. But I wanted a more scrappy look so I used 3 charm packs and pulled out the white-on-white prints as well as a few that my customer didn't want in the quilt.  Turned out lovely, but as always it's hard to get a good photo in the morning sun. 

OSU Quilt

This was a customer request in OSU colors (Oklahoma). She chose a simple two-color quilt instead of adding gray for the little black squares. She also wanted the back to have a little something, so I split each color in half and added a white strip between everything. This worked out great because this is a big quilt, and I needed that extra couple of inches. 

 If you want to make your own, the pattern is called Rah Rah Rally.