Today I'm sharing a bright and happy Woven Threads quilt! I love the bold, scrappy look of this quilt, and it was quick and easy to make with strip piecing.
The Woven Threads quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.
This is a really great stash-busting design with the jelly roll-sized quilt strips.
Below is the original Woven Threads quilt. You can see how different they are!
Beautiful Floral Fabrics
This quilt is made with the Faraway Florals collection by Robert Kaufman, along with Kona Cotton solids from my stash. The prints are a variety of floral designs in many bright and happy colors, including pinks, teals, oranges, yellows, reds, greens, and blues. I used a jelly roll to make this quilt, though it didn't require the entire roll. A few dark green prints were left out and not used in this quilt.
I selected coordinating Kona Cotton Solids from my stash which was kinda tricky since it requires about 1-3/4 strips to make the length of the quilt, and I didn't have very many duplicates. I sold most of my solid fabric collection when we moved cross-country in 2023. But it worked out!
You can find the Faraway Florals fabric collection right here.
The backing fabric is Pindot in Cobalt from my stash.
The Woven Threads Quilt Pattern
Woven Threads includes 5 sizes - Baby, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King. This is an older pattern, and it doesn't include as many sizes as the more recent patterns that I have written, which have been trending toward 9 when the math works out for that many. :)
This pattern is an easy strip-pieced design made with strips sewn into segments, and then sub-cut and sewn together again. It really is quick and easy to make!
As you can see, this design would work really well for many fabric collections, as well as your scrap strip bins. Selecting fabrics won't be stressful for this quilt. You could even use a single color in the long strips instead of a variety like I used in this quilt. A single color would calm the quilt down and create more cohesion, if that's what you'd prefer.
Quilts make awesome tablecloths, and often there is a window nearby for good lighting! :) Now putting dishes on the quilt and actually using it a meal is whole other thing, but totally doable with the right mindset!
Longarm Quilting
The quilting design is Maze, completed on my Handi Quilter Amara in orange thread. Yep, orange thread! It seemed to blend the best with many of the fabrics, and even looks really nice on the cobalt blue backing. While the design is called Maze, it looks a lot like hexies. This is the perfect design with fairly dense quilting yet the quilt remains soft and cozy and doesn't get stiff from dense stitching.
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