Folklore Prairie Rambling Rows & Bars Quilt

Just fifteen days into the New Year, I have my first DrEAMi project completed. As the DrEAMi name implies, this was not in my plans to make in 2025 but just happened to be made for several reasons

The darling Granddaughter’s father (aka, my youngest son who made a sad mistake of only gifting me a $20 gift certificate at the local gift shop for my birthday in which I suggested adding another zero next time) gave me this past Christmas a $100 gift card. I purchased a Villa Rosa Designs Tiffany pattern card perfect for 2.5” strips. I mentioned to Mary Etherington that this pattern reminded me of her Rambling Rows pattern of which I have made several versions of this pattern. It is one of my favorite patterns for 2.5” strips.

With the Tiffany pattern in mind and thinking what fabrics I could use to make this quilt,  I thought of a small jelly roll (23 strips) and a small layer cake (24 10” squares) of fabrics both designed by Moda’s Fancy That Design studio. I had received these fabrics in several Fat Quarter Shop Sampler Box and have sat in my stash for several years. I thought I would subcut the 10” squares into four 2.5” strips but decided to just cut them into two 5”x10” bars (rectangles) since some of them were larger prints. It was then I decided to make a version of the Rambling Rows quilt which I’m calling Rambling Rows and Bars. I should mention I was in the process of sewing a backing for my #12 of the Country Threads Dirty Dozen UFO Challenge. 

There are only two types of blocks; one made with four 2.5” strips and the other made with two 5x10” bars. Although they are slightly different height sizes, you can use them together provided they are not on the same row which is what I learned from making so many runners/wall hangings with the Villa Rosa Clover pattern. I had just enough fabric to make 24 blocks each of the two block types when I added one additional 2.5” strip. I thought these two fabric lines would work well with each other since of the colors, brown, gold, blues and coral were in both fabric lines.

Once the blocks were made, finishing it was quick. I machine quilted straight horizontal lines using Star Golden Goose Thread. I found a gold and green ticking stripe in the backing vault which I had for years and glad to finally use it. Since I didn’t have any fabric from the two fabric lines for the binding, I used a brown mini check which I think went well with the fabrics. The Folklore Prairie Rambling Rows & Bar quilt measures 58” x 68”.

Here’s a pic of the fabric remains. I don’t think I ever made a quilt using all of the fabrics since I like to sew with the intention of having scraps for another quilt. BTW, the two fabric lines in this quilt are Dawn on the Prairie and Folk & Lore so I used a combination of the two names for this quilt.

It snowed last night so no outside photos could be taken of this quilt. I just love this quilt, especially how fast it was made. I’m thinking the Rambling Rows and Bar might be my pattern for the year since I already have several fabric groupings to make more. But first, I need to finish my #12  Challenge Quilt which I am hoping to machine quilt this weekend which might be good sewing weather.

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