Thursday, July 7, 2022

A Happy Stripes Quilt

When I first saw Emily Dennis’ Happy Stripes  pattern, I knew I had to purchase it because it was a great stash buster pattern for 2.5” strips. If you seen my other quilts, you know that I love this combination. The fabric in my Happy Stripes quilt might look familiar since I just finished in April my Carrie Bloomston Unruly Patchwork Throw.
A little bit of happenstance with the making of the Happy Stripes quilt which made me wonder if I really have a Fairy Quilt Godmother in my studio. After I ordered the pattern and I was thinking of using my Carrie Bloomston stash since it was fresh on my mind after making the patchwork throw. I really do love my stash which includes several of her fabric lines which work so well together. I just so happened to see a purple tote bag sitting on the bottom of my project cart and decided to look to see what was inside. It contained approximately 150 2.5” strips cut from my Carrie Bloomston stash maybe last year and had forgotten about it. I just needed to die-cut 25 more strips and HSTs from the Newsprint fabric and I was ready to make this quilt.
Over 60 different prints were used. After grouping the strips in sets of four, there were sixteen different combinations,  After sewing the strip sets which made four rail blocks, the connecting corners were sewn on different sides of the rail blocks so it would look like there were more combinations.
The Flimsy was finished by the end of May and I had to wait until after my busy June was over before I could finally machine quilt the Happy Stripes quilt.
No surprise with the machine quilting with my go-to combination of straight and wavy lines with CT Essential Thread in #20858 Stone. The binding was a Stoffabric gray/black dot print with gold metallic and not from the Carrie Bloomston stash since there wasn’t enough yardage of a solid print which would work and  I thought a scrappy binding would look too busy. Lucky me for just purchasing a yard of this print when I was in Colorado last month.
The Master Quilt Holder had a little trouble holding up this 64”x88” quilt to show some of the backing which is the Pueblo Stripe print from the Carrie Bloomston stash. I purchased beaucoup yardage of this several years ago from Bernie Kringle’s Needle and Foot Shop and I knew one day I would make a quilt to finally  use it.
Here’s another photo of the Happy Stripes quilt. A sad note about the finishing of it; after spending Saturday and Sunday with friends with holiday get togethers,  my plan was to spend the Fourth of July machine quilting. Instead, I spent the morning and early afternoon glued to the television because of the awful shooting at a parade which happened in a town just 27 miles away. This is a beautiful town I am familiar with, visited and even dreamed of living there. I finally made it to my studio late afternoon and quilted with a heavy heart once again. It is days like these which I find comfort in quilting and it’s happening much too often.

Linking up with: My Quilt Infatuation/NTT

10 comments :

  1. Well, you really whipped that one together quickly - how fun to find a stash of strips ready to go! Such sad news with the shooting, and far too close to many people I know! Hugs!

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  2. Such a lovely quilt. I feel bad for you that the making was marred by the tragic holiday, but I’m glad you were able to quilt your heavy heart out. We should not have to quilt these feelings away. Ever. So much grief—and anger. I fear that our country will never get it’s head on straight. When will we learn?

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  3. That is a wonderful quilt, Rose! I might need that pattern, too. Love how it's made. I'm so glad we can make beautiful and comforting quilts to soothe our heavy hearts and for others, too. Hugs to you!

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  4. What a great pattern and fabulous quilt. I love the way the triangles break up the strips and give a ripple effect. The newsprint is a fun choice for the triangles, too. Master quilt holder did well considering how long that quilt is! I love the binding and backing, too! Good thing you had a lot of that backing in your stash! Quilts are comforting and glad you had something to work on when this horrible news came through. Such a sad state of affairs we are in.

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  5. I like this quilt so much that I now have the pattern in the cart to purchase! The text print just sets off the pretty prints so well. I love it!

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  6. Rose I was just looking at this quilt pattern the other day. They had it posted in red, white and blue. It has been in my card for a few days. May need to go hit the buy button. I'm glad you had a project to work on after this saddening news.

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  7. That is a beautiful quilt! Great combination of fabrics, and I really like the quilting pattern.

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  8. Oh, Rose! My heart is still heavy from the HP shooting. It was way to close and friends have been impacted. To your beautiful quilt - it is lovely. I'm especially drawn to the newsprint corner on each block. The binding is the icing and the backing the whipped cream on this yummy good-sized finish. Nice job, my friend. {{Hugs}} a bunch. ~smile~ Roseanne

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  9. Like a few others here , I saw the Happy Stripes quilt by Emily and thought well isn’t that cool. I made a similar one (actually twice now!) out of a book by the Lintotts that makes stars the way you rotate the blocks. I LOVE that backing too! Good vision for buying beaucoup yardage. I thought of you when I heard of the mass shooting near Chicago sigh.

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  10. What a beautiful, colorful finish! I need to try your take on quilting. Straight lines and I are old friends, but I need to introduce myself to wavy lines. I love the combination: simple without being simplistic. : )

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