Window Wall Quilt - Free Pattern - Featuring Poppie Cotton's Finding Wonder

 Hi Makers!

As Spring is on it's way and we look out the window you can find so much wonder.  This free quilt pattern, Window Wall, is perfect for Poppie Cotton's newest collection, Finding Wonder by Sheri McCulley.  It also work well for any large print fabric so that you can show it off.  

To make this quilt you can use 7 fat quarters, 1 1/2 yards of a solid background fabric 3/4 yard for binding, and 4 yards of fabric for backing..  This sweet throw is 58-inches square.  If you want to make it larger add an additional border or use another fat quarter and add an extra row. 

Cut each fat quarter into three pieces:

    Column One - 6.5 x 20.5 inches

    Column Two - 6.5 x 16.5 inches

    Column Three - 6.5 x 14.5 inches

From the background fabric cut: 

    [6] 2.5 x 20.5 inches for Column One

    [6] 2.5 x 16.5 inches for Column Two

    [6] 2.5 x 14.5 inches for Column Three

    [9] 2.5 x WOF strips to piece together for the column sashing and border.

For each column sew together the seven prints and six background strips.  Begin with a alternate a print rectangle and background strip.  End the column with a print rectangle as show in the illustration. Repeat this patter for column two and three.

Sew together three of the 2.5 x WOF strips.  Trim each to 54.5 inches.  Save the remaining background strip for the border.  Use the strips to join together Column one and two and then add an addition background strip to the right edge of column two and add column three. 

Sew together the remaining 2.5 x WOF strips. Trim two strips to 54.5-inches and sew a strip to the left and right sides of the quilt top.  Trim the remaining 2.5-inch strip to two 58.5-inches and sew to the top and bottom of the quilt top.  

Make your quilt sandwich with the backing, batting an quilt top.  quilt as desired on a domestic machine or longarm.  Bind, label, wash and snuggle. 

For more inspiration, follow me on instagram @neverlandstitches or on Pinterest.

Until next time…I hope you always find something around you that inspires your creativity…

Lisa Jo

Gears - Crayola Colors Of Kindness - A Twist on Using Panels

 Hi Makers! 

 I am here today to share with a fun modification of my Gears quilt that I made using the newest Crayola licensed collection, Colors of Kindness. It is a wonderfully whimsical inspiring collection filled with inspiration sayings, darling graphics and bright and cheery colors. It's a collection full of the inspiration we all love when a box of any Crayola product is place in front of us even as adult as it brings back memories of when we were a child.

The Colors of Kindness includes three panels in the collection. I used two of the panels in the modified Gears Quilt.

 

I used the Kindness Cards panel to cut up and use as the center of the Gears blocks. I attempted two different methods of dissecting the the panel.

The first method, I used an 8.5-inch ruler and attempted to fussy cut a grouping of four kindness cards together to use as the center section of the block.

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To quote Dan Fogelberg from the song, "Changing Horses", Changing horses in the middle of a stream get you wet... That's what happened to me. I just wasn't thrilled with the way it looked and felt as if to much fabric was being wasted and the blocks were not lining up as I wanted. Therefore, I decided to very carefully cut apart the individual kindness cards. The quilt is going to be used as a nap quilt for the almost two year old this fall at daycare and she's not particulate about there being two different centers to the blocks. She just like to snuggle with quilts (all the quilts, at the same time - LOL).

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This was a tad tricky and took patience, but I think the finished blocks were well worth the extra time. I then used 1.5-inch strips to sew together the cards to create a 8.5-inch center for each block. A little window into kindness.

I made each block using the various Colors of Kindness Dots and the center block using Colors of Kindness Crayons.

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The large Throw Kindness Around Like Confetti Panel with various colors of RBD basics became the back of the quilt. The remaining Dots became a scrappy and colorful binding.

If you'd like to make your own version of the Colors of Kindness Gears quilt, pick up the collection from your favorite quilt shops and the Gears pattern from my Etsy Shop.

For more inspiration, follow me on instagram @neverlandstitches or on Pinterest.

Until next time…I hope you always find something around you that inspires your creativity…

Lisa Jo 

Riley Blake Project Tour - Wildwood Wander and StarMazed

 

Hi Makers! Is Lisa Jo of Neverlandstiches back to share with you an interesting new quilt made with a stunning new collection by Katherine Lenius, Wildwood Wander.

Wildwood Wander is a fabric collection based on a walk through nature and the little treasures you might find along your walk such as rocks, seeds, leaves, birds, wildflowers and mushrooms. The rich color palette consists of cream, blue, taupe, green, taffy, peach, navy, and rose. To me, this collection and palette is a fun new twist on a wonderful new autumn collection.

 

StarMazed is an interesting new quilt pattern, which creates a maze through the prints of Wildwood Wander to the sawtooth stars made using Marsala Dapple Dot. Marsala Dapple Dot was also used to back the quilt and bind it. I also used both Bee Cross Stitch On Cloud Pebble along with Blossom Tone-On-Tone Cream as background fabrics to give the quilt some additional depth. If you's like to make your own version of StarMazed, the pattern is available in my Etsy shop. StarMazed makes for a fun quilt to snuggle with your favorite person little or big to see if you can make your way from top to bottom of the maze. 

I am off to snuggle my version of this quilt and my favorite one year old and see if she will take a nap before mommy and daddy get home from work.

For more inspiration, follow me on instagram @neverlandstitches.

Until next time…I hope you always find something around you that inspires your creativity…

Lisa Jo 

Riley Blake Project Tour - Featuring - Liberty Fabrics - The Artist's Home Collection

 Liberty Fabrics has a wonderful new quilting fabric collection called The Artist's Home Collection.  This fabulous collection was inspired by the wonder and dreaminess of an artist's home.  It is filled with vibrant details, eclecticism and wonderful colors all meant to further inspire you.  Liberty's designers were influenced by historic homes, country side escapes, Yves Saint Laurent's Idyllic Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech, Barbara Hepworth's sculpture studio and the gardens on the Cornish Coast. 

This huge collection of fabrics from Liberty is divided into Watercolour Garden Collection, Painted Sunset Collection, and Sculpture Collection.  There are 15 prints in each collection.  I choose to work with Sculpture Collection to create a new quilt pattern called Brioche.  Laying out similar blocks diagonally from one another and flipping the direction of the blocks created an interesting affect as if the pieces of fabric were being braided almost like a loaf of Brioche bread. 

This quilt is so much fun to make as it can all be cut out at once or in sets of five as well as it is a great quilt to chain piece.  (HINT - it's a fast make)

The digital download for Brioche may be purchased from my Etsy Shop HERE.

Here's close up of this fun and interesting quilt...

I truly hope that you will consider making a version of this quilt for someone special in your life or for yourself.  If you do make it, please post it on instagram and tag me @neverlandstitches

Until next time - Happy Sewing!

Lisa Jo 

My Heart Belongs to my Farmer - Barbed Wire Quilt

 In late November, I had the privilege of creating a quilt using Poppie Cottons, My Heart Belongs To My Farmer fabric Collection. 

I created a new pattern which is a twist on my ChickenWire Quilt pattern.  ChickenWire, which was created with Poppie Cotton's Chick-A-Doodle-Doo is such a fun pattern creating an interesting weave affect.  ChickenWire is available in my Etsy Shop.  In that same theme,  Barbed Wire does the same, but is even easier to make.  

Barbed Wire is now available in my Etsy Shop.

If you'd like both ChickenWire and BarbedWire I have a special package available in the shop which contains both patterns HERE.

Until Next Time - Happy Sewing!

Lisa Jo

Poppie Cotton's Chick-A-Doodle Doo Fabric Tour

 

The wonderful team at Poppie Cotton has done it again and created yet another fun, fabulous and farm fresh fabric collection. The newest collection is called Chick-a-doodle-doo.  It bandana like fabrics and darling little farm prints.  

I designed a fun pattern, called ChickenWire, which is currently available in my Esty Shop. 

Here's a few pictures of this fun new pattern...

If you are looking for a new quilt pattern to try, I hope you will consider it.

Until next time ... Happy sewing,

Lisa Jo 

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