81 by 67 inches
top completed 2025
72 by 63 inches
top completed 2025
I love the sew-alongs Julia Davis hosts at her Red Rainboots Handmade site. She organizes a fabric swap and offers thoughtful patterns to make pleasing quilts.
I greatly appreciate a designer who values using simple shapes.
I haven't joined in on the swaps as I have PLENTY of fabric here to supply the variety needed, but I do join in the sew-alongs.
Her patterns are available HERE.
Previously I did her Jump On In pattern with the red and white triangles.
Her latest swap/sew-along of low-volume prints was with two patterns and I did both, Swapping Stars and Flutter.
They are similar to blocks I have done in the past, Evening Star and Flicker.
Evening star quilt HERE and block HERE
Flicker quilt HERE and block HERE
Julia's designs are with different proportions and colorations from my previous quilts. I like the airy feel of her stars with the points not touching.
And I LOVE how she focuses on low-volume fabrics.
In my making of the quilts, I varied my pressing from her instructions to use those I had in my previous quilts.
Also, I had limited yardage of the fabulous French navy with white pin-dot so I conserved fabric by not using a flip and sew method with squares, and instead cut out triangles with the Easy Angle tool, and used the Doug Leko tool on the background squares.
Because of the limited pin dot, to make the flicker quilt a bit larger, I added an extra low volume square all around.
My cutting carefully got me these two quilts--I had just 4 leftover navy pin dot triangles!
Thank you, Julia, for your designs!
AND, buy people's patterns! We want to have active designers out there!
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| I had this fabulous navy with white pin dot from a friend |
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| Backing for both is by Dear Stella |
