I am excited to introduce you to my newest quilt design called Stars and Stripes! This design is quick and easy yet makes a stunning quilt that you'll be proud to share. This pattern was inspired by Picket Fence - a long-time favorite quilt pattern of mine. All of the sizes are included with this design, and the scrappy stars option is fat quarter friendly!
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Introducing Stars and Stripes
The Stars and Stripes quilt pattern combines sparkling stars with pieced stripe blocks to make a truly show-stopping quilt! I love creating quilt patterns with stars scattered playfully across the quilt top like this design does. It makes the quilt stand out and gives it more character.
There are two star options with this bright and sparkly design - you can use fat quarters to make the scrappy stars and stripe blocks or make identical stars from yardage of two prints with jelly roll strips for the pieced blocks. Either option works terrifically!
Stars and Stripes is a play on Picket Fence with the pieced strip blocks encircling the sparkling stars, just as the pieced blocks encircle a large fabric square in Picket Fence. All quilt sizes preserve this layout of the pieced stripe blocks. You'll find the Picket Fence pattern right here.
All Sizes Included
I wanted to give you all the possible size options for you to make your own Stars and Stripes quilt. This pattern includes 8 sizes, which are - Wall, Lap, Throw, Large Throw, Twin, Square Queen, Rectangle Queen, and King. Each size preserves the pattern of pieced stripe blocks encircling the star blocks.
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Dazzling Fabrics
For this quilt, I used the Dazzle Dots fabric collection by Christa Quilts for Benartex. The name of the fabric says it all; the material has dots beautifully scattered across the stars and stripes. I chose the greens and blues from the collection to create a soothing Throw sized quilt in cool colors. With the crisp Kona Nautical background, isn't the quilt just -- dazzling? 😊✨
You can shop for Dazzling Dots fabric here.
The backing fabric is a Hash Dot print in Turquoise, available in the shop right here. The binding is a navy blue dot print from the Dazzle Dots collection, double fold and attached by machine for durability.
Stars and Stripes Quilt Kits!
Connecting Threads has kitted Stars and Stripes in red and blue fabrics on a background of white to create a stunning patriotic quilt. You can check out the quilt kits right here.
Photo Credit Connecting Threads
Longarm Machine Quilting
The quilting design used for this marvelous quilt is Chevron Tumblers by Patricia Ritter and Marybeth O'Halloran, available at Urban Elementz right here. This was quilted with Superior Omni Navy thread on my HandiQuilter Amara with ProSticher.
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This quilt top was made by Kare Ybarra and quilted and bound by me.
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