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Scrappy Star Pop baby quilt

Today I’m sharing a scrappy Star Pop baby quilt. Star Pop is the newest pattern in the Quilty Love pattern shop and it’s stash and scrap friendly.

For this scrappy Star Pop baby quilt, I dug through my blue scrap bins and low volume fabrics.

Star Pop is a fun and modern sawtooth star quilt. The quilt pattern comes in sizing from baby size all the way up to king size.

Star Pop is stash friendly since you can use many different size pre-cuts including your scrap stash.

Scrappy Star Pop baby quilt

Star Pop is a scrappy friendly since each block uses less than 10 inches of fabric. My blue scrap bin is always overflowing so I decided to use blues for this cute little baby size quilt.

For the stars, I used an assortment of low volume fabrics in my stash. So this Star Pop baby quilt was made entirely with my fabric stash.

I find scrappy quilts so satisfying to sew up since they use up that leftover fabric. I sometimes wonder how many scrappy quilts I would have to make to use up all the scraps…lol. I’m pretty sure that number would be ALOT.

Star Pop Quilt Pattern

Star Pop is a fun and modern sawtooth star quilt pattern.

This stash friendly quilt pattern can use the following precuts: Fat quarters, layer cake squares, fat eighths or quarter yards. You do need to make sure your fat eighths and quarter yards are a full 9 inches though.

Star Pop also ended up being scrappy friendly since each block uses less than 10 inches of fabric.

All the quilt sizes

The Star Pop quilt pattern includes all the quilt sizes in the instructions. Use this quilt pattern to make the following sizes:

Baby size quilt
Small throw size quilt
Large throw size quilt
Twin bed size quilt
Full bed size quilt
Queen bed size quilt
King bed size quilt

Straight line machine quilting

I quilted up this scrappy Star Pop baby quilt myself using simple straight lines.

I tried a new (to me) quilting design on this scrappy Star Pop baby quilt. Instead of just single spaced straight lines using a walking foot, I did double lines.

The double lines are about 1/8 inch spaced.

So first I quilted straight lines at one inch intervals. Then I went back in and added the second line about 1/8 inch from the first line. Just be sure to add that second line on the same side of each line so they end up evenly spaced.

It was a really simple quilting technique but ended up being a little more interesting than single spaced lines.

Riley Blake Wide Back backing

I used a grey Blossoms wideback by Riley Blake for the backing of this scrappy Star Pop baby quilt. The binding is Kona Cotton in denim.

Scrappy Star Pop baby quilt materials:

Quilt pattern: Star Pop by Quilty Love
Fabrics: assorted scraps
Binding: Kona Cotton Denim
Backing: Riley Blake Blossoms wideback
Pieced and quilted on my Janome MC6700p

Flannel Star Pop quilt

There are a few more Star Pop quilt samples to share and today is all about the flannel Star Pop quilt. I love this quilt. I love this flannel. I’m sure this won’t be the last time I sew with these flannels.

This flannel Star Pop quilt is sewn up using a mammoth flannel junior fat quarters that I curated. This turned out nice and cozy with the flannels. This is the large throw size from the quilt pattern.

Star Pop is a fun and modern sawtooth star quilt pattern. It’s stash and scrap friendly.

Star Pop is available in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

Flannel Star Pop quilt

I curated this bundle of Mammoth Junior flannels for this Lucky Log Cabins quilt and loved how it turned out so I decided to use it for this new Star Pop quilt too. I went with a very very light grey for the stars but in all honesty I wish I had went with either white or dark grey. A dark grey would have probably looked better.

The stars didn’t stand out as much as I thought they would. The end result is a really soft low volume looking quilt so it’s still pretty but I think it could have looked better. You sew and you learn 😉

These Mammoth Flannel juniors are so much fun to sew with. They are called juniors because the prints are a smaller scale than their regular mammoth flannel which work well for cutting up into a quilt.

Star Pop quilt pattern

Star Pop is a stash friendly sawtooth star quilt pattern. Use fat quarters, layer cake squares or scraps for this fun and modern quilt.

You can also use fat eighths or 1/4 yards but keep in mind you need the entire 9 inches for those two precuts.

The quilt pattern includes cutting instructions for all options.

All the quilt sizes

Of course I’ve included all of the quilt sizes in this Star Pop quilt pattern:

Baby Size
Small throw size
Large throw size
Twin size bed quilt
Full size bed quilt
Queen size bed quilt
King size bed quilt

This flannel Star Pop quilt is the Large throw size.

Confident Beginner star quilt pattern

Star Pop piecing is pretty simple and would be a good confident beginner quilt. You might lose a few points on your stars but if you look closely, you’ll see a few of mine missing too.

Quilting with Flannel

The number one question that comes up when I start posting flannel is “Do you prewash?”

Usually…no. I hate pre-washing. I’m impatient to wait for it to wash. And I prefer working with fabric when it’s still nice and crisp.

But…. I did prewash for this quilt! And the only reason I did was because I was curious how it would be. And to be honest, I hated it…lol.

It was SO dusty working with it after it was washed. I don’t know why it would be so much worse but it was. My nose itched the entire time I sewed with it. It also fluffs the fabric up quite a bit. I guess that’s not really a problem but it kind of surprised me.

Also, it came out of the washer as a big tangled mess…haha. It took some time to work it apart with scissors.

Another question… “Do you use a larger seam allowance with flannel?”

I don’t. I know, I throw all caution to the wind and sew with abandon. Would it be safer. Probably. Is it necessary? According to majority of the quilters on Instagram, no.

I wrote a lot more about sewing with flannel in this blog post. Check it out if you are nervous about sewing with it!

I ended up using a light grey color for the stars. It’s a Robert Kaufman solid flannel in the color cloud. I would recommend something darker like Shetland flannel in Shale.

Below are some mock ups with darker or lighter stars.

Binding is Kona Cotton in the color Denim.

Long Arm Quilting

I sent this one off to Katie of Modern Textiles for quilting. She’s not far from me here in southern Minnesota so it didn’t have far to travel.

We chose this cable quilting design.

Peppered Cotton Wide Back

I would have liked to back this flannel Star Pop quilt with a flannel fabric but I didn’t have any on hand. So instead I used this Peppered cotton in the color Fog.

I started carrying Wide backs in the shop! I love wide backs for quilts and have started curating a collection of modern wide backs.

Be sure to check it out for your next quilt!

Flannel Star Pop quilt Materials

Quilt Pattern: Star Pop in the Quilty Love pattern shop
Fabrics: Mammoth Flannel Juniors by Robert Kaufman
Binding: Kona Cotton Denim
Backing: Peppered Cotton Wide back in Fog
Pieced on my Janome MC6700p
Long Arm quilted by Modern Textiles

Ruby Star Society Starry Star Pop Quilt

The Star Pop quilt pattern is available in the Quilty Love pattern shop today! I’m excited to share this fun and modern sawtooth star quilt pattern.

This stash friendly star quilt is fat quarter friendly, scrappy friendly or even layer cake friendly. This version of Star Pop is sewn up using the brand new upcoming Starry fabrics by Ruby Star Society.

Star Pop comes in multiple size options from baby size all the way up to bed sizes. I would call this modern star quilt pattern an ambitious beginner quilt.

Star Pop is available in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

Ruby Star Society Starry Star Pop Quilt

The brand new Ruby Star Society Starry fabrics are the star of this Star Pop quilt! This fun and modern star quilt was designed specifically with this fabric line in mind. Starry hits shops in November but when I saw it first introduced a few months ago I was smitten.

Star Pop was the motivating factor behind this star quilt pattern. I knew I wanted to sew it up in Starry fabrics.

This quilt uses a Starry fat quarter bundle but I eliminated a few colors and then doubled up on a few more. The colors in this fabric line are so happy. They are the perfect modern shades.

The Starry fabric line has a few neutrals to choose from. I used the rainbow stars in the fabric line to make the stars in this quilt. I love how they still have a subtle print but really pop against those bright colors.

Star Pop Quilt Pattern

I’m so excited to introduce this fun and modern star quilt today! I love stars and there are quite a few star options in the Quilty Love pattern library. But, it’s been a while since I’ve done a star quilt. Sawtooth stars are so classic in quilting so it’s always fun to come up with a new design using them.

Starry is a block based quilt pattern. Each block is a quarter of the star and then stars start to emerge as you put your blocks together.

I kept the piecing on this one simple. I would call this one a confident beginner for sure. The biggest challenge that a newer quilter will have is keeping those star points. But If you were to inspect my star quilts, you will see some missing points. It happens to a lot of us 😉

Stash friendly star quilt pattern

Star Pop is stash friendly! I’m not calling this one a stash buster only because it does require yardage for the stars. But it’s fat quarter friendly, scrappy friendly or layer cake friendly. You can also use 1/4 yard cuts or fat eighths but need all 9 inches of that quarter yard or F8 so use those at your own risk. Cutting diagrams are included for all of those fabric options.

Star Pop is scrappy friendly since each block uses less than 10 inches of fabric. I made a scrappy baby sized Star Pop that will be on the blog soon.

Tons of quilt sizes included – Baby to bed quilt size

As always, I’ve included tons of size options in the Star Pop quilt pattern. The pattern includes instructions for each of these quilt sizes:

Baby size
Small throw size
Large throw size
Twin size bed quilt
Full size bed quilt
Queen size bed quilt
King size bed quilt

The Starry Star Pop quilt featured in this blog post is the large throw size. It’s a nice and generously sized throw quilt.

Modern Star Quilt pattern

Star quilt patterns are some of my favorites to make and there are a few in the Quilty Love pattern library already. Stars are such a classic quilting design and I love incorporating them into my quilt patterns.

Star pop uses the classic sawtooth star in a fun and modern way. I wanted the stars to really stand out in this quilt and be the “star” of the quilt…haha. Wow, that’s cheesy. The goal was lots of stars on the quilt with the prints acting as the background. I like how the stars are going off the edges of the quilt. There is no stop or start to the stars, they just keep going.

Long Arm quilting by Modern Textiles

Modern Textiles quilted up this Starry Star Pop quilt for me. In fact, Katie of Modern Textiles quilted most of my Star Pop quilt samples. I highly recommend her.

This quilting pantograph is called Abacus.

Star Pop quilt Materials

Quilt Pattern: Star Pop quilt pattern by Quilty Love
Fabrics: Starry fabrics by Ruby Star Society
Binding and Backing: Starry fabrics
Pieced on a Juki TL-2000qi
Long arm quilted by Modern Textiles

The Happy Scrappy Glowing Quilt

I’m so excited to share this Scrappy Glowing quilt today! The Glowing quilt pattern was released last fall and this is the quilt I made during the quilt along that followed.

Glowing is a big block based quilt pattern that uses fat quarters from your fabric stash. For this happy scrappy Glowing quilt, I used a variety of navy blues, teals, greens and low volume scraps. It’s easy to modify Glowing into a scrappy quilt like this one.

Glowing quilt pattern by Quilty Love

Glowing has been in the works for many many years. I’ve been tweaking the design for this one for quite some time.

My inspiration for this pattern was an intricate design I saw on a piece of clothing many years ago. Every once in a while I played around with the design in Adobe Illustrator but it was always too intricate. There were always too many seams. Finally I was able to simplify it into an easy to make quilt block.

Whenever I have an inspiration piece like that I try to keep it just that: inspiration. Rather than making an exact replica I like to create a design inspired by it.

The perfect Stash friendly quilt pattern

This quilt was a fun one! And a very satisfying make. I hosted a quilt along when the Glowing quilt was released and this is the quilt I made during the quilt along.

I encouraged the quilt along participants to use their fabric stash for this quilt. Glowing is a fat quarter quilt and uses only one fat quarter per block. That means you can make a large throw size with just 12 fat quarters from your stash.

Make bundles from your fabric stash

Check out this blog post for tips and tricks on how to mix fabric bundles from your stash.

I dug deep into my fabric stash for my scrappy Glowing quilt. I’ve had these navy and teal Cotton and Steel fat quarters sitting in my fabric stash for so long! I’ve been itching to use them though.

I decided to modify the quilt slightly by using just 3 colors. The outside rings are navy, the inside rings are teal and all of the plus signs are green. I cut all of my block pieces from these colors. I don’t think I’ve ever made a quilt like this before!

I can definitely see more scrappy quilts like this in my future where they are scrappy but use limited colors.

Chain piecing short cuts

I don’t miss an opportunity to chain piece a quilt! I’ll figure out a way to chain piece most quilt patterns. This Glowing quilt doesn’t have a super easy or obvious way to chain piece but I found a short cut you might like.

You can use this method for any block based quilt.

Stack your quilt block pieces up into one large stack. Then you can chain piece sections at a time. This saves a ton of time (and thread) on a quilt like this large block based Glowing quilt.

You can see how I stacked up the blocks and then chain pieced the sections in the videos below.

Scrappy Low volume background

What made this quilt extra satisfying is the low volume background! I cut all of my background pieces from low volume fabric scraps.

A low volume fabric is any lighter fabric with more neutral prints. So this large Glowing throw size quilt is made entirely from my fabric stash. I used low volumes with white backgrounds.

I’ve made scrappy low volume quilts in the past with a wide mix of low volume fabrics like this scrappy Quilty Stars quilt but for this Glowing quilt I kept the low volumes all white.

Big Block quilt pattern

The Glowing Quilt pattern has nice big blocks! Big blocks can be fun to make. Each one is satisfying to finish.

Beginner friendly quilt pattern

Glowing is a good beginner friendly quilt pattern.

What makes this quilt pattern beginner friendly are the limited seams to match up. There are very few seams that need to line up perfectly. So it’s a very forgiving quilt block good for beginner quilters.

Pre-made Bias Striped binding

I finished off this happy scrappy Glowing quilt with a pre-made bias striped binding from Simply MacBeth.

It’s actually pretty amazing to have pre-made bindings on hand…lol. I don’t always love the process of making bindings so having a few of these bindings on hand is always nice.

Peppered Cotton Wide back backing

If you have been following for a while then you know I love a good wide back fabric. A wideback fabric is just that… a wide fabric meant to be used for quilt backings.

I’m not a fan of piecing quilt backings so a wideback eleminates that. Most widebacks are around 108 inches wide instead of your standard 44 inch wide bolt of fabric.

I like a nice neutral backing and these are just that. I also love how soft these peppered cotton fabrics are. They fray quite a bit making them a little more challenging to quilt with but make super great backings since no piecing is required. They make for soft and drapey quilts.

Save money by using wide backs on your quilts

Widebacks are a great way to save a little money on your quilt backing too! You need less yardage of a wide back and the total cost generally comes out less than regular width fabric.

I used a grey peppered cotton wide back on this scrappy Glowing quilt. I stocked up on some of these peppered cotton wide backs and have used them quite a bit now. I really love them!

Wide back or quilt backing quilt calculator

If you need to convert your backing fabric on a quilt pattern into a wide back width use this quilting calculator! You enter your quilt dimensions, the dimension of your fabric (108 inch wide or whatever the wide back is) and it will tell you how many yards you need. You can even add overage if your quilter requires that.

Scrappy Glowing quilt pattern – Quilt sizes

Glowing is a fat quarter friendly quilt pattern that includes instructions for a baby size quilt, a throw size quilt and a double or full size quilt. I was excited to offer the full size quilt in this quilt pattern since that size is a little harder to find.

The throw size is a very generous throw measuring 63″ x 82″. It’s almost large enough for a twin size bed. You could add a slightly larger border to this quilt to fit a twin size mattress.

Long arm quilting

I sent this large scrappy Glowing quilt off to Jenae at Vintage Stitch for long arm quilting. I had her help me decide on a quilting design and this clamshell look was a winner! This quilting pantograph is called Sashiko.