I love our Flower Tile Quilt Pattern and today I get to share the version we made in June 2022. The Flower Tile Quilt Pattern provides multiple sizes, is FQ or half yard friendly AND creates extra HSTs to make a second baby quilt! I love efficiency!
I wanted to revisit the Revive Bundle I curated and shared back in 2021. This was my fifth quilt we sewed together using the Revive Bundle. If you want to catch up on the other makes, check them out here:
The Revive Bundle includes 24 FQs in a springy, happy palette of neutrals, blues, and greens. I wanted to use a really bold fabric for the background of the quilt. And of course, I landed on a 1" black and white gingham.
I am going to warn you all now. I took over 170 process photos. Just photos while I was making this quilt. Don't worry, I definitely will not be posting even half of them but we will be getting a lot of images. I think it also goes to show how much fun I had making this project.
I left out 4 of the FQs in the bundle because the Flower Tile pattern requires only 20 FQs. And then I had to see the gingham fabric next to all the cut piles so I could get the first glimpse of the combo. Perfection!
The blocks finish at 16" and I love the size. They are great to showcase large scale prints or just a lot of your favorite colors in one block. And as you sew together a single block, you also create the extra HSTs to use in the extra quilt!
I set aside the HSTs and finished those after the main quilt top was sewn together.
I know some quilters really don't like cutting up and sewing back together prints that are highly directional - strips, ginghams, plaids, etc. I personally love it. I love that you can see get the visual of a happy grid, stripe, plaid without needing to meticulously pattern match.
After all my blocks were done, I finalized the layout I wanted. And oops, I forgot to share that! I had this planned before I even cut my fabric. Along with using the Revive Bundle, I also wanted to playfully highlight the soft gradient in the bundle. So the quilt went from light white to the pop of peach at the bottom right. Here is the mock up I created.
This pattern also comes together rather quickly, especially not having to add sashing between the blocks.
In quilts this large, it finishes at 64" x 80", I try to sew the rows together in "halves" so it makes it easier to move the fabric through the machine. So for this quilt, I sewed rows 1 + 2 together, and then rows 3 + 4 + 5, and then those two halves together.
Okay before I move onto finished quilt photos, I want to show you the baby HST quilt I made with the extra HSTs from the main top. I trimmed down all the HSTs and then just did a random layout of the HSTs in a 8 across by 10 HST grid. Also, I decided that I wanted the background fabric of the HSTs to be the upper left orientation.
In the process of putting these HSTs up on my design wall, I had to squeeze myself in between my sewing table and my peg board on the wall that holds my extra sewing things. It holds scissors, rulers, pins, etc. Unfortunately, my booty got carried away and knocked off my magnetic pin holder and cracked it right in half!
Sad day but my husband super glued it back together and then spray painted the whole thing to be silver. And it works still!
There is something so satisfying and comforting to sew a HST quilt together. You can create endless designs with the mighty but simple HST. And I love how this baby quilt is happy and consistent in its look while still being colorful and bold with the gingham.
I laid the two quilt tops together and I love that the work you do from the big one, provides you the extra little one.
Luke and I took these quilts to a park here in Portland. Laurelhurst Park has gorgeous huge trees, large meadow grasses and a pond in the center. There are so many great places to get an outdoor quilt photo. We had a fun time taking these photos.
I sent both of these quilts tops off to Kaitlyn of Knot + Thread Design. I choose the Beleaf It or Not pantograph from the Longarm League for the main Flower Tile Quilt. And I picked Orange Dream for the baby HST quilt. We chose a neutral thread for both quilts - I think a cream or grey.
The texture is super fun on these quilts. The main Flower Quilt is bound in Kona Ferndale and backed in a light grey (I don't remember the name). The baby HST quilt is backed in Kona Pickle and bound in Kona Parrot.
Seeing the two of them together is so fun for me. All you need is the TCJ Revive Bundle and 3 1/3 yards background fabric and you get two quilt tops!
This pattern also comes together rather quickly, especially not having to add sashing between the blocks.
Sad day but my husband super glued it back together and then spray painted the whole thing to be silver. And it works still!
There is something so satisfying and comforting to sew a HST quilt together. You can create endless designs with the mighty but simple HST. And I love how this baby quilt is happy and consistent in its look while still being colorful and bold with the gingham.
