Finished Fall Jelly Roll Quilt with Matching Pillow

 I've spent a little more time in the sewing room and finished up my Fall Jelly Roll Quilt and also whipped up a festive pillow to go with it.

I used up the last scraps from my Jelly roll, along with some background fabric and made Half Square Triangles.

I trimmed them all up to 2 inches.

And settled on a 9 x 9 layout.

Added some skinny borders and sewed everything together.

I made a YouTube video that goes into more details and lists all the measurements. Check it out!

I took the quilt and pillow downtown for a fun photo shoot.

There were several benches,

Lots of pretty landscaping,

And fun brickwork.

There is even a rustic storage building that made a perfect backdrop.

It quilted up pretty quick with some all over meanders, swirls, and some weird things you can call leaves.

I tried to do an oak leaf, but it looks more like a bunch of wavy lines instead. 

I'm excited to have this drapped over the couch this fall. With the pillow nested next to it.

If you want to make your own quilt, I have a video for that too. Check it out!

Happy Sewing!

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Bee Kind Blog Hop

The theme for the September blog hop challenge hosted by Joan of Moose Stash Quilting, is all about "kind" projects: a favorite charity project, a free pattern, or anything that shows we spread a little kindness, everywhere we go. Of course, Bee projects of all kinds fit right in there too!

My project is a quick little baby quilt that can be sewn up in half a day. 

The main block is a nine patch that sews up really quick.

Perfect for charity quilts or a quick handmade gift and is beginner friendly.  

It was so quick to make, I made two!

I added a new free tutorial on my Tutorials Page so you can make your own. 
Check it out!

This project actually started out from a gift. 

Several years ago a friend gave me a leftover jelly roll with almost all the strips still in it.  There were 36 and a half strips left over! 

I cut it up into 2.5 inch squares and had the perfect shade of yellow to match for the border.

The  9 patches measure 6 inches square when finished, and with only 12 blocks, the quilt is small. 34 x 42 inches. Perfect for the car or tummy time.

It was small enough I could load them both on my longarm and quilt them at the same time.

And check out the back. I threw in some bees.

I did a little custom quilting on these two, but if you did an all over meander, the quilting can be just as fast as sewing the top together.

To keep on with the spirit of giving, I will be donating one of these to a youth fundraiser later next year.

I still had lots of squares left over, so I made a cute little pillow to go with it.  

Squares on the front and back.

After working on my Island Batik applique project this month I had applique on the brain so I added a cute flower on the front.

Thanks so much for hopping along.  Be sure to stop by my fellow bloggers to see how they are spreading a little kindness.

Monday Sept 23

MooseStashQuilting

Words & Stitches

Selina Qullts

Just  Sew  Quilter

Scrapdash

Tuesday Sept 24

Patchouli Moon Studio

Quilted Snail

Quilt Schmilt

Quilted Delights (Me)

Hazels Daughter

Wednesday Sept 25

BeaQuilter

Karrin's Crazy World

That Fabric Feeling

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilting Between the Rails

Thursday Sept 26^th

Just Let Me Quilt

Ms P Designs USA

Quilting Gail

Songbird Designs

Happy Sewing!

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National Sew A Jelly Roll Day - Fall Quilt Top

It's National Sew A Jelly Roll Day!

A day devoted to all those jelly rolls, rollie pollies, and strip sets sitting on shelves or in drawers, waiting their turn to become a quilt.

I got a head start and pulled out this Island Batik Pumpkin Patch strip set I have been holding onto for awhile.

I had a plan for it and didn't waste any time!

Check out my YouTube video to see how I made it and how quickly I stitched this top together!

The quilt is made from a simple square in a square block and uses almost every inch of the strip set. 

 I had a little more than 2.5 inches left from each strip, enough to make my own mini charm pack.

 But those little pieces won't sit around long, I've already got them trimmed up for something else!

To make the top, you need 40 strips.  Island Batik strip sets come with 40 strips, which makes them perfect for this project. The top needs 80 blocks and one strip makes two blocks.

To get started, I paired two prints together and cut each strip into:

Four 6.5 x 2.5 inch rectangles  

and

Six 2.5 x 2.5 inch squares.

 I laid out the block pieces in order and swapped the centers with their paired counterparts.

There was lots of chain sewing...

And assembly line ironing.

And it all went together pretty quick.  

The video above breaks down each step into minutes.

The quilt is laid out with 8 blocks across and 10 blocks down and measures 48 x 60 inches, the perfect size to throw over the couch.,

If you have Jelly Rolls decorating your shelves, give this project a try, it's quick and looks fantastic! And with a jelly roll, you know all the fabrics will play well together.

Happy Sewing!

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