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Bonnie and Camille Star Pop Quilt

Today I’m sharing this Bonnie and Camille Star Pop quilt. I’ve had this Shine on B&C fabric bundle in my stash for a few months just waiting for the perfect project. This fun mix of florals made the prettiest Star Pop quilt.

Star Pop is a stash friendly modern star quilt pattern. It’s the newest Quilty Love quilt pattern in the shop.

Bonnie and Camille fabrics were some of my first fabric choices when I started quilting seven years ago. They are the happiest fabrics and so much fun to sew with.

This Star Pop quilt is the large throw size.

Star Pop quilt pattern

Star Pop is a brand new quilt pattern now available in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

This fun and modern star quilt is a play on the classic sawtooth star quilt design. I love stars in my quilts and am always looking for different ways to use them in my quilt designs.

Star Pop is a confident beginner quilt pattern. I kept the piecing simple on this star quilt. The blocks are simple and repetitive.

Fat quarter friendly star quilt

Star Pop is a stash friendly quilt pattern! Not quite a stash buster as you will need yardage for the stars but definitely stash friendly. Star Pop will work great with those curated fat quarter bundles already in your stash or a mix and match of fat quarters.

This fun and modern sawtooth star quilt is scrappy friendly! Each block uses less than 10 inches of fabric so it’s a good one for your scraps. I sewed up this cute blue scrappy baby Star Pop quilt as a sample.

Stash friendly quilt pattern

Besides fat quarters, Star Pop is layer cake friendly, scrap friendly, 1/4 yard friendly or fat eighth friendly. You will need the entire 9 inches of quarter yards or fat eighths so use those at your own risk.

Bonnie and Camille Star Pop quilt

This version of Star Pop uses the Bonnie and Camille Shine on fabric line. I’ve had this fabric line in my stash for a few months waiting for the perfect project. I thought Star Pop would look great in these Bonnie and Camille fabrics since they have a scrappy and happy feel.

Since Shine On has so many prints in the fabric line I ended up using about half of each fat quarter. I left the yellow prints out and then used each remaining print at least once in the quilt.

I love how happy and scrappy the final results are. Shine on has a few low volume prints in it so I used one of them for the stars. I chose the cute little rainbows on white fabric.

I’ve really been trying to stay away from plain white fabric in my quilts lately. Don’t get me wrong, I love the bright white in quilts. But white is not the most practical. As I’ve given away more quilts lately to families, I realize how impractical it is…lol. Plus, I’ve been enjoying the challenge of trying to replace white with something else. Rather than a stark white, I’ve been enjoying using a subtle low volume print instead.

I use white mostly out of convenience. I always have plenty of it on hand and I tend to be impatient and a poor planner when it comes to making a new quilt. I try to use what I have on hand.

Bonnie and Camille fabrics

Bonnie and Camille fabrics were some of my first fabric choices. My local quilt shop at that time carried a few of their prints and I always gravitated towards them. They really are the happiest fabrics and I still enjoy sewing them up.

This fabric line is the Shine On line that came out within the past year or so. Each of their lines coordinates so well together so if you miss one, chances are you will love the next one just as much.

I’ve been on a bit of a Bonnie and Camille sewing kick lately. Recently I sewed up this Scrappy B&C Lucky Log Cabins quilt. If you have a lot of their fabrics in your stash, they make really good scrappy quilts like that Lucky Log Cabins quilt.

Another scrappy Bonnie and Camille quilt I’ve made is this scrappy Ombre Gems quilt.

I’ll have some Bonnie and Camille kits in my shop later this year.

Confident Beginner star quilt pattern

Star Pop is a confident beginner star quilt pattern. Both beginners and novice quilters will enjoy sewing up this sawtooth star quilt. There are at least 17 different ways to make the same design when it comes to quilting so for this star quilt I chose a simpler piecing method.

These star blocks can be sewn together quickly. I like doing all of my cutting up front, making all of the half square triangles up front and then chain piecing my blocks together for fast assembly.

To do this, I’ll stack up all of the block pieces one on top of the other and then chain piece through an entire stack. You will end up completing your blocks all at the same time. I show a photo of this in the quilt pattern.

I’m all about shortcuts these days especially with more limited time with the two year old.

Long Arm quilting by Modern Textiles

Katie of Modern Textiles quilted this Bonnie and Camille Star Pop quilt. We chose this simple and and loopy pantograph called Cake Walk. Katie quilted most of my Star Pop samples and I highly recommend her.

Bonnie and Camille Star Pop quilt – backing and binding

This fun and scrappy Star Pop quilt is finished off with a Peppered Cotton wide back fabric. It’s a nice grey linen wide back and one of my current favorite options. Check out the brand new Wide Back Shop for modern wide backs.

I pretty much only use wide back fabrics on my quilts these days so I’ve begun curating a collection of modern wide back fabrics. Be sure to check it out for your next quilt!

This Star Pop quilt is finished off with a navy fabric from the Shine On fabric line. It’s a cute little rainbow print. The navy binding really pops on this one. You can’t go wrong with a navy binding!

Bonnie and Camille Star Pop Materials

Quilt Pattern: Star Pop quilt pattern by Quilty Love
Fabrics: Shine On fabrics by Bonnie and Camille for Moda Fabrics
Pieced on a Juki TL-2000qi
Long Arm quilted by Modern Textiles

Scrappy B&C Lucky Log Cabins Quilt

I have a fun and scrappy B&C Lucky Log Cabins to share today! Lucky Log Cabins is the perfect scrappy stash quilt and I’ve been wanting to make this particular one for a while now. I had an assortment of older Bonnie and Camille fabrics in my stash just waiting for the perfect project.

I’m convinced Lucky Log Cabins works with just about any fabric! I was excited to sew it up in these Bonnie and Camille fabrics. I’ve made quite a few Lucky Log Cabin quilts and I know there are still many more to come because this is one of my favorite quilts to sew up.

Lucky Log Cabins is part of the Quilty Love Stash Buster Series. I promise you, it will help you sew through your stash! You can use so many different pre-cuts for this fun log cabin quilt.

Lucky Log Cabins is available in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

Scrappy B&C log cabin quilt

Bonnie and Camille fabrics were some of my favorites early on in my quilting adventures. The bright happy colors sucked me right in. In fact, it was Camille’s blog that inspired me to start quilting in the first place! I was searching Pinterest for T-shirt quilt instructions and I came across some of Camille’s quilts on Pinterest. That was my introduction to modern quilting. I had never seen quilts made with such happy fabrics before that.

So yes, they were my first fabric crush..haha. And since I’m not a fabric hoarder it actually bothered me that these beautiful fabrics were sitting in my stash un-sewn. So I made a plan to cut them all up and sew a few quilts.

Lucky Log Cabins is the first B&C quilt of the two I have planned. The other is a scrappy B&C postage stamp quilt.

Scrappy friendly stash quilt pattern

Lucky Log Cabins can be made using 2.5 inch strips so it was easy to start cutting strips from all of the miscellaneous sized B&C fabrics in my stash.

It turns out I had more than enough for this Lucky Log Cabins quilt plus that second quilt I have planned.

Quick and easy strip pieced quilt pattern

Lucky Log Cabins is a super fast and fun quilt to sew up. That’s why I’ve made so many. It goes together quickly with strip piecing. Plus it’s scrappy so fabrics can be placed and sewn together randomly.

These B&C scraps were too pretty not to photograph! They really have the best colors in their fabric lines! For this quilt I ended up leaving out the brighter greens and the yellows that so many of their fabric lines have.

The best part about using my B&C fabrics for this Lucky Log Cabins is that I could easily use the low volume prints. Those low volume prints can be tricky to use when you are using a lighter background. But this quilt doesn’t use any background fabrics so you can mix those lighter fabrics right in!

Machine Binding

I used some leftover B&C gingham fabrics for the binding of this Scrappy B&C Lucky Log Cabins quilt. Lately I’ve been machine binding all of my quilts. I just don’t have the time to sit and hand bind with a toddler. Plus my shoulder doesn’t like hand sewing 🙁

Machine binding is super fast and you can still get a nice finish. I have a really thorough machine binding tutorial here. I still follow that same method but attach to the front of the quilt first and then the back last. You end up with more of a hand stitched binding look on the front this way.

This scrappy quilt is such a happy quilt!

Long Arm quilting

I sent this scrappy B&C Lucky Log Cabins quilt to Knot and Thread for quilting. She chose these fun modern loops.

Peppered Cotton Wideback

This scrappy log cabin quilt is finished off with a Peppered Cotton wide back in the color Oyster. It’s a beautiful cream color. It is a very light quilt backing. I love it! Maybe not the most practical color for a quilt that will get tons of use though.

I’ve used these Peppered Cotton wide backs quite a bit now and really like them. Of course my favorite thing about them is the fact that they are a wide back. That means no piecing needed for your quilt backing.

Lucky Log Cabins quilt pattern

As I’ve already mentioned, Lucky Log Cabins is one of my favorite quilt patterns to sew up. It’s a log cabin look alike that works so well with jelly roll strips, fat quarters, fat eighths or even 1/4 yards. It’s a scrappy pattern so you really don’t need to plan any fabric placement.

I call it a log cabin look alike because it isn’t a true log cabin quilt block. A log cabin usually starts with a center “log” and you continue to add strips or “logs” around that center. This log cabin quilt is constructed with strip piecing but the end result looks similar to log cabins.

I really love when like fabrics start to touch in this quilt so you really don’t need to worry about fabric placement. The only time I consider fabric placement is when I’m making my strip sets. I do try to choose fabrics that flow together during that stage.

All the quilt sizes

Lucky Log Cabins includes instructions for eight different sizes!

  • Baby size
  • Small throw size
  • Medium throw size
  • Large throw size
  • Twin bed size
  • Full bed size
  • Queen bed size
  • King bed size

This scrappy B&C Lucky Log Cabins quilt is the medium throw size.

Materials Used:
Quilt Pattern: Lucky Log Cabins by Quilty Love
Fabrics: A mix of B&C fabrics by Moda
Pieced on my Janome MC6700p
Quilted by Knot and Thread

North Star Quilt _ A sawtooth star quilt pattern

New Quilty Love patterns are available!  North Star Quilt is one of the two patterns available today.

Fat Quarter Friendly

North Star quilt uses a traditional saw-tooth star quilt block with some added accents.   This pattern has nice big bold blocks 🙂  North Star quilt pattern is fat quarter friendly and has some piecing shortcuts to help it go together smoothly.

Grab your copy of North Star in the Quilty Love Pattern Shop.

north star quilt pattern

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Friendly Stars – The Bonnie and Camille jelly roll quilt

I’m finally getting around to sharing this version of the Friendly Stars Quilt!   When I designed this quilt I couldn’t decide if I wanted it scrappy or non scrappy so I did both 🙂  You can find the original Friendly Stars quilt here.

I’ve actually attempted to post this quilt several times but never liked the photos.   Finally calling it good enough and putting it out in to the quilty world.

Friendly Stars is a jelly roll quilt pattern and you can pick up a copy in my shop.  And then decide for yourself, scrappy or non scrappy 😉

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