Sweet Caroline II Quilt Pattern!

Sweet Caroline II is patchwork design that goes together quickly and easily with strip piecing!  

Sweet Caroline II quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts pattern shop.

This is a quick and easy quilt design made with 5 fabrics.  In the gray and yellow version, there are 3 yellow prints, white, and a mottled gray.

Sweet Caroline II is a great place to use Moda Grunge; this is Grunge in deep red, black, 2 grays, and white.

Once again, Grunge for the win!  This is 4 purples and white.

SWEET CAROLINE II IN WILD CRIMSON

Sweet Caroline II has been kitted in the King size by Connecting Threads in their Wild Crimson fabric collection.  It's a terrific mix of bold blues and red with a splash of tan.  Click here to read more.

Photo Credit Connecting Threads

Photo Credit Connecting Threads

Photo Credit Connecting Threads

Sweet Caroline and Sweet Caroline II are available as a pattern bundle at Busy Hands Quilts.

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Sweet Caroline Quilt Pattern - Twin Size in Dutch Garden!

Sweet Caroline is a patchwork delight in blues and yellows!  This is a Twin size quilt.

Sweet Caroline quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts pattern shop.

DUTCH GARDEN SWEET CAROLINE TWIN QUILT

Sweet Caroline is a quick and easy strip pieced quilt made using yardage of medium and dark hues in a single colorway or, as in the Dutch Garden version, two colorways - blue and yellow.

This beautiful blue and yellow fabric collection is Dutch Garden by Bluprint, sadly no longer available.  It shouldn't be too difficult to find a substitute though; either an entire collection, or combining fabrics from the stash.

FEATHERED ROSES QUILTING DESIGN

Perfectly complementing the quilt top is Feathered Roses, a fairly wide edge-to-edge digital design.  Sweet Caroline is quilted in bright white thread.

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Borrowed from my daughter's book collection, The Fellowship of the Ring, Heidi, and Heidi Grows Up.  And a small globe leftover from our homeschooling days.  :)

This beautiful quilt finished off beautifully with a yellow polka dot border from my stash (not part of Dutch Garden) and a blue border from the collection.

FABRIC PLACEMENT TO REPRODUCE THIS QUILT

This quilt is easily reproducible with your own fabrics.  Use medium yellows and blues as Assorted Medium Prints, and use darker yellows and blues as Assorted Darker Prints where called for in the pattern.  

The backing fabric is a small ditsy floral from the Dutch Garden collection, also used for the binding.

Quilt Stats:

Pattern:  Sweet Caroline, available right here.

Size:  68" x 83"

Fabric:  Dutch Garden by Bluprint

Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 Cotton Poly

Quilting:  Feathered Roses in white thread on Gratitude, my Handi Quilter Fusion with ProStitcher

This quilt is for sale at Busy Hands Quilts.

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Sweet Caroline Quilt Pattern - Throw Size in Botanical Blue!

Today I'm sharing this Sweet Caroline Throw quilt.  I've finally gotten around to taking pictures of this super sweet blue and white quilt!

Sweet Caroline quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts pattern shop.

BOTANICAL BLUE SWEET CAROLINE QUILT

Sweet Caroline is a quick and easy strip pieced quilt made using yardage of medium and dark hues.  This quilt is made with the beautiful Botanical Blue collection from Connecting Threads.

THE FLOWER SPRAY QUILTING DESIGN

I quilted this Sweet Caroline quilt with a Flower Spray digital design on my Handi Quilter Fusion with ProStitcher.  The design is a beautiful mix of posies and feathers and is available right here.

This beautiful Sweet Caroline quilt is finished off with a navy blue fabric with a tiny white design.

The backing is the medium blue main print from the collection.  It's the same print as the navy outer border.

BACKGROUND DESIGNS

Fabric placement is key to Sweet Caroline, and it's all laid out for you in the pattern.  See the three navy squares in the patchwork blocks and how they rotate every other block?  That's not random; it's planned.  This fabric placement gives the design a whole new look.

Placement of the strips in the stripe blocks is also outlined in the pattern to create the striking outline of the patchwork blocks.  

YARDAGE FRIENDLY or JELLY ROLL STRIPS

Sweet Caroline is written with yardage in mind which you will cut into 2-1/2" jelly roll strips.  The focus is using medium and dark hues in a single colorway with a soft background color and then setting triangle and border fabrics that pull it all together.  

But don't think that more than one colorway doesn't work with Sweet Caroline!  Tomorrow I'll show you a version with blues and yellows!

This patchwork quilt ended up so sweet - perfect for a Throw quilt on the sofa or at the end of the bed.

I had so much fun taking pictures of this quilt and just couldn't stop!

Would you believe ... this is taken hanging on my garage door.

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This quilt top was sewn by Alycia of Quilty Girl.  I have a crew of sewists who sew quilt tops; quilting and binding were done by yours truly.

QUILT STATS:

Pattern:  Sweet Caroline

Size:  Approx 50" x 65"

Fabric:  Botanical Blue from Connecting Threads

Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 Cotton Poly

Quilting:  Flower Spray in medium blue thread on Gratitude a Handi Quilter Fusion with ProStitcher

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Good Fortune Baby Quilt | Finished or Not Friday Linky Party!

Welcome to Finished or Not Friday where you can share your finished {or not} projects!

Oops, I totally forgot about Finished or Not Friday!  Some secret pattern designing and sewing have taken over every brain cell; that's my excuse!

My Finish is a patchwork baby quilt in Good Fortune by Kate Spain.

This quilt was sewn and quilted several months ago, but I found nothing in the stash that matched for binding, so there it sat.  Somehow, a fabric came through the door {cough, cough} during a stash-building spree that just happened to match.

This quilt will be for sale in my Etsy shop as soon as my imaginary fairy helper gets it there.

Quilt Stats:

Pattern:  10" squares patchwork
Size:  38" x 47"
Fabric:  Good Fortune by Kate Spain
Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 cotton/poly
Quilting:  Orbit Chevron on Gratitude
Backing:  Fun polka dots, probably Riley Blake

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We had a huge increase in the views of your links this past week!  Continue sharing the party in your posts!  It's to your own advantage to let others know about this linkup as you will have more visitors.

Preeti's Esmeralda is stunning, and she wrote the pattern for free!

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Today's Daily Deal at the Fat Quarter Shop is a steal on The Good Life jelly roll!  A great day to add a little Bonnie & Camille love to the stash!

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Custom Sweet Marion Patchwork Quilt | Finished or Not Friday Linky Party!

Welcome to Finished or Not Friday where you can share your finished {or not} projects!

My Finish is a custom queen size patchwork quilt in Sweet Marion!  Oh my, this is the sweetest fabric collection!  I just love the navys, aquas, corals and pinks together.

This quilt is truly double sided quilt with the beautiful quilting design able to shine through so well on the bubble gum pink backing.

This quilt was made as a custom order through my Etsy shop.

Quilt Stats:

Pattern:  Patchwork squares
Size:  93" square
Fabric:  Sweet Marion by April Rosenthal for Moda
Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 cotton/poly
Quilting:  Feathered flowers on Gratitude in white thread
Backing:  Moda Bella in Bubble Gum

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Gypsy from Smiles From Kate!

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I've been showing you peeks at what is inside the Handmade With Love Super Bundle, and here's what I've shown so far.  This is only a very small sampling of the 200+ patterns and courses, not to mention the bonus 6-month digital subscription to Make Modern magazine!

These 6 quilt patterns are valued at $66 retail and are included in the $29.97 price of the Handmade With Love Super Bundle!  Folks, it's too good to miss!

Another quilting feature included in the Handmade With Love Super Bundle is a Solids e-book which includes 5 patterns for beginners and advanced beginners.  

Also included in the Bundle is a video course on how to make a crochet rug.  This is the perfect use of quilt backing scraps that are so long!  This is on my to-do list!

Get your Bundle today, so you can crochet along with me!

The Bundle is only available through December 4th!

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