Jelly Twist - Showing Off a Precut-Friendly Quilt Pattern with the New TYPE/ography Collection! -

Hi everyone! Mary Burroughs-Mayer from Ember Craft Company here, showing off my latest makes for Riley Blake Designs!

The Fabrics

This week, we are featuring TYPE/ography – the latest collection from Lori Holt! These fabrics feature vintage typing-themed text and images and a rainbow of colors. I love the sort of modern nostalgia these evoke – you can find the complete collection HERE.

The Pattern

Now, I struggled a little to find a pattern I liked that would be adequate to show off ALL THESE GORGEOUS COLORS! There are different 30 prints in this collection to blend with all of Lori’s collections. And this count doesn’t include the backgrounds, it’s a veritable rainbow! I stumbled across the Jelly Twist pattern by Cluck Cluck Sew during my search (find the link to the pattern HERE) and knew I had found the one! It’s a super forgiving pattern that can use 2 1/2″ strips for BOTH the main colors AND the background. I just love the scrappy look it has without actually having to use scraps.

Exclusive Lori Holt Precuts at the Fat Quarter Shop!

I was recently sent a few of the new, exclusive Bee Cross Stitch fabric precuts from the Fat Quarter Shop and knew I had the perfect 2.5″ strip roll to use for the background as well. These precuts can only be found at the Fat Quarter Shop. They have 5″ squares, 10″ squares, and 2.5″ strip rolls in Bee Cross Stitch in Pebble – a link to the 2.5″ strip roll precut I used can be found HERE. It was such a timesaver to already have the background strips for this quilt cut to the right width and ready to go!

Piecing the Blocks

I will say that organizing the pieces for this pattern was a little time-consuming. I tried really hard to make sure that no colors were repeated in the same block and none of the same prints were touching when the blocks were assembled. It did take some moving around and seam ripping a few times, but I really love the organized scrappiness I was able to achieve!

I mentioned earlier that this pattern is surprisingly forgiving. You don’t need to worry about matching up seams until the blocks are complete, and even then, it’s not super obvious if any of the seams are a little off. I chain-pieced the blocks into rows for the top and it was a really satisfying sew.

The Quilting

Donna Larson of Featherbed Quilting worked her magic on the long arm quilting for this one, you can find her work HERE. I gave her complete free-reign on choosing the quilting design for this and I couldn’t be more pleased with how this turned out! She used the Double Flower pantograph by Sew Shabby Quilting – find it HERE – and I love how the petals soften the edges of rectangular chain blocks on the quilt.

The Binding

Now, I generally try to use a print I used in a quilt top for the binding – I like having a frame around my work. For this quilt, I didn’t have enough left of any of the prints for a single-color binding. I definitely could have put together a scrappy binding with what I had leftover, but the quilt top already seemed busy enough. Donna, my longarm quilter, suggested I use the leftover strips of the background I used. White binding?! Sure, she said. It will frame the prints in the blocks, and blend in where the background hits the edges.

Well, I had to try it. Why does it feel so decadent to use white binding?! I have to say that I love how this turned out. I do feel like I need to be more careful not to get this quilt dirty, but I would definitely use white binding again. Let me know what you think about this in the comments!!

Photo Session

I took this quilt out to the hills above where we live in Northern California for pictures. The rolling hills are green in the winter and spring and golden in the summer. They are a perfect backdrop for my quilts! And there are lots of fences and gates to hang my quilts on as I’m usually taking pictures by myself! Photo Hack: I do put an old towel over any barbed wire fences or other sharp items before draping my quilts over to protect them.

This was such a fun project to work on, I’m so pleased with how this quilt turned out! All the little details (like the white binding!) that may go unnoticed by someone who doesn’t quilt make me so happy. I highly recommend this Jelly Twist Pattern by Cluck Cluck Sew, and make sure to check out the exclusive Bee Cross Stitch Precuts at the Fat Quarter Shop!

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