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| I love how the quilt looks with different orientations |
Jump on In (designed by Julia Davis)
top completed 2024
96 by 80 inches
Last winter Julia Davis of Red Rainboots Handmade (her main business is making wooden barn quilts--those tulips are calling me) had a fabric swap and quilt-along called Jump on In. I did not participate in the swap, but purchased her pattern and watched the progress of the project on instagram.
The pattern is available HERE.
Read about the swap HERE. It was a fun process to follow on her Instagram. She was very organized!
And HERE is a link to the hashtagged quilts made by the participants.
I kept the idea on the back burner, cutting triangles while cutting reds for other projects and sewing stacks of the units behind the scenes.
Two things I changed to fit my sewing preferences:
I dislike trimming down units, so I cut my triangles from strips to finished size using the Easy Angle or Bonnie Hunter's Essential Triangle tool.
Are my triangles a bit less accurate than if I over-cut/pieced/trimmed?
Yes.
And I am ok with that.
I also dislike sewing lots and lots of long rows together onto a mothership, so I sewed the units into 16-patch style blocks. Once the 16-patches were made I laid out, I sewed into rows, pressing each row east or west, alternating.
All seams nest.
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| Sew into strips of 4. Press half of these strips up and half down. Make half-block of 8 units. Do not press these units yet |
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| Sew two half-blocks together into a block Do not press these units yet |
My reds range from tomato/madder to berry/maroon. The white is Kona Snow.
Thanks, Julia, for the delightful design!
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| Backing by Timeless Treasures |
5 comments:
WOW! I love this quilt and just in time to display for Christmas too! I thought I had already decided on the projects to sew in 2025, maybe I can add one more to the list? Happy stitching and Happy Christmas!
What a beautiful quilt! That is a good idea to make the 16 patch units. I haven't been doing much with triangles since I hate dealing with the bulk when you sew the half square triangles together.
Red-and-white is always a delight. But I'm trying to figure out why it needs a pattern.
I have been working on Bonnie Hunter's Sugar Grove that orients the 16 patch units in different directions. I cut my triangles with the Easy Angle ruler and the accuracy is good enough for me. I sew the HSTs as leader enders, press them open and put them on a tray by color. After a bunch made, I lay them out on freezer paper as 16 patches, press on the paper and stack. When I sew the 16 patches, I do it webbing style (all col 1 to col 2, then add column 3, etc.) Then I sew up the rows. Maybe more than you wanted to know.
Oh this is sooooo gorgeous! LOVE red/white quilts.
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