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Stash buster quilt series

Quilty Love Palette Picks Lucky Log Cabins Quilt

I have yet another Lucky Log Cabins quilt to share today! This is my Quilty Love Palette Picks Lucky Log Cabins quilt. I’ve made quite a few of these Log Cabin quilts and am currently sewing up another. If I had to pick a favorite Quilty Love pattern, today it would be this one..haha.

I sewed up this Lucky Log Cabins quilt using my brand new Palette Picks bundle for Robert Kaufman. The palette picks bundle is in shops now. This was such a fun project to do with Robert Kaufman. I curated this bundle of 20 fat quarters using fabrics from their basics lines.

The Lucky Log Cabins quilt pattern and the Quilty Love Palette Picks bundle are both available in the Quilty Love shop.

Photo credit: Robert Kaufman

Stash buster series inspiration

Did you know my Robert Kaufman Palette Picks bundle was the inspiration behind Lucky Log Cabins? It inspired the entire Stash Buster Series in fact. When Robert Kaufman asked me to curate this bundle I knew I wanted to create quilt patterns that used these fabrics only. That is where the stash buster series came from. And Lucky Log Cabins was the first quilt pattern in the Quilty Love Stash Buster Series.

Strip Pieced Quilt

Lucky Log Cabins is a quick and easy strip pieced quilt. This is one of those really great mindless sewing quilts because you don’t have to put much thought into fabric placement. Or practically no thought. I actually like when like colors meet up and end up next to each other.

The only fabric placement I think about in this quilt is when I’m sewing my strip sets. It’s still very random but I place strips next to each other that flow well.

The ultimate stash buster quilt pattern

Lucky Log Cabins is a true stash buster! This one is going to actually put a dent in your stash since it doesn’t use any background fabric. You can use fat quarters, jelly rolls, quarter yards, half yards or even fat eighths. Or mix and match strips from any of those cuts.

All the quilt sizes

Not only is Lucky Log Cabins a really great stash buster, it includes all the quilt sizes! I’ve included every size from baby size all the way up to king size in the pattern. I’ve done all the math for you so you can start sewing through your stash. This Palette Picks version is the large throw size.

Here are all of the quilt sizes included in this quilt pattern:

  • Baby size -38″ x 47″
  • Small throw -47″ x 57″
  • Throw -57″ x 66″
  • Large throw -66″ x 76″
  • Twin size -66″ x 95″
  • Full size -85″ x 95″
  • Queen size -95″ x 114″
  • King size -114″ x 114″

Quick, Easy and beginner friendly

Lucky Log Cabins is a stash buster plus it’s quick and easy! It’s kind of addicting to make too. I think that is why I have made so many of them already.

I would call this one an ambitious beginner quilt. There are some seams to line up but if you press to the side and pin you shouldn’t have any trouble with that. If you square up all of your blocks to the exact same size like I recommend in the pattern then the quilt top goes together easy peasy since you don’t have to line up any seams there.

Scrappy, happy quilt

I really love how scrappy and happy these Lucky Log Cabin quilts turn out! Speaking of scrappy, this could be a scrappy quilt too! Grab all of your 2.5 inch strips from your scrap stash and start sewing!

Long Arm quilting

I sent this Quilty Love Palette Picks Lucky Log Cabin off to Knot and Thread for quilting. I love this circular quilting pantograph that she chose.

Grid backing fabric

I chose this modern neutral grid fabric for the backing of this bright and colorful quilt. I wanted to tone down the backing since the front was so bright. The grid fabric is Sevenberry Classic Plaid. It’s such a gorgeous neutral fabric!

Look! The yellow couch made an appearance in this one! Sadly, we let the yellow couches go so this was it’s very last photo shoot. It was a good one to go out on…haha. If we had enough space in this house I would have held on to them just for the photo opportunities.

Lucky Log Cabins quilt using the Quilty Love Palette Picks bundle

Materials:
Quilt Pattern: Lucky Log Cabins
Fabrics: Quilty Love Palette Picks Bundle
Backing: Sevenberry Grid by Robert Kaufman
Binding: Kona cotton Mediterranean
Pieced on my Janome MC6700p
Quilted by Knot and Thread

Quarry Trail Fat Quarter Dash quilt

Today I’m sharing the Quarry Trail Fat Quarter Dash quilt. This is the last sample quilt I made up for the new Stash Buster quilt pattern. Fat Quarter Dash is the second quilt in the Quilty Love Stash Buster Series. This quilt pattern is fast and easy and stash friendly.

I used the new Quarry Trails fat quarter bundle for this Fat Quarter Dash quilt. Quarry Trails is printed on Essex Linen so this quilt has the most gorgeous texture.

Fat Quarter Dash is in the Quilty Love pattern shop.

Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern

Quarry Trails Fat Quarter Dash Quilt

I couldn’t wait to cut into this brand new Quarry Trails fat quarter bundle by my friend Anna (Noodlehead) for Robert Kaufman. Her color palettes are always so good. They are such good classic colors. I especially loved the blacks and blues in this fabric line.

Anna’s fabrics are always printed on Essex Linen for that delicious texture. I love to use Essex linen in my quilts since it does provide the added texture.

Fat Quarter Dash is a stash buster quilt so it’s perfect for any fat quarter bundle you have in your stash. I will admit that this fat quarter bundle wasn’t in my stash long before I cut into it…lol

Quarry Trail fabrics

Here’s a closer look below at the texture in this Quarry Trail fabric line. The fabric line is printed on a variety of essex linen for even more layered detail.

Quarry Trail fabrics
quarry trail fabrics

Mix and Match Fat Quarter Quilt

Fat Quarter Dash is a mix and match fat quarter quilt. This means you cut all of your pieces for one block from one fat quarter and then you mix and match the pieces to make your blocks. The mixing and matching part is always my favorite.

Quarry Trail fabrics

Fat Quarter Dash quilt

Fat Quarter Dash is the second quilt in the Quilty Love Stash Buster Series. It’s designed with your stash in mind! The quilts in the stash buster series do not use background fabrics. Without background fabrics you can really put a dent in your fabric stash.

Fat Quarter Dash is written around fat quarters (no surprise right..ha). If you have a fat quarter bundle that you have had sitting around it will work great for this. Or mix and match fat quarters from your stash for your Fat Quarter Dash quilt.

You can use 1/4 yards only if your width of fabric is a minimum of 42 inches wide. Or you can use 1/2 yards by cutting them in half as fat quarters.

Beginner friendly quilt pattern

Fat Quarter Dash was also written with beginner quilters in mind. I wanted to offer a really easy beginner friendly quilt pattern for those who are just learning to quilt or even attempting their very first quilt. Fat Quarter Dash is a great first time quilt since the piecing is simple.

All the quilt sizes

Fat Quarter Dash includes instructions for six different size quilts. You can make a baby size all the way up to king size using the Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern.

The pattern includes:

  • Baby size
  • Small throw size
  • Large throw size
  • Twin bed quilt
  • Queen bed quilt
  • King bed quilt
Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern
Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern

Backing and Binding

This Quarry Trail Fat Quarter Dash quilt is backed in a black Blossoms wideback by Riley Blake. The black wideback pulls from the blacks in the quilt top and worked out well for this quilt. I really love these Blossom widebacks and have used them quite a bit lately.

The binding is Kona cotton in the color Prussian.

Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern
Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern

Long arm quilting

I sent this Quarry Trail Fat Quarter Dash quilt off to Vintage Stitch for quilting. Since the quilt top was pretty busy I chose this simple wave stitch. This long arm quilting design is one of my favorites. It looks great on all quilts!

Machine Binding

You can see the machine binding I did on this Fat Quarter Dash quilt below. Lately I have been machine binding all of my quilts to save time. I do enjoy hand stitching but I just haven’t had the time for that lately. I have a really easy to follow machine binding tutorial on the blog here.

Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern

The pops of coral and peach in this Quarry Trail fabric line are so pretty.

Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern
Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern
Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern
Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern
Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern

Materials used

Quilt Pattern: Fat Quarter Dash by Quilty Love
Fabrics: Quarry Trail by Robert Kaufman
Binding: Kona Prussia
Backing: Blossoms wideback in black
Pieced on my Janome MC6700p
Quilted by Vintage Stitch

Quilty Love Palette Picks Fat Quarter Dash quilt

I have couple of bright and colorful Quilty Love Palette Picks Fat Quarter Dash quilts to share! Both of these small Fat Quarter Dash quilts are made up using the brand new Quilty Love Palette Picks bundle by Robert Kaufman.

Fat Quarter Dash is the second quilt in the Quilty Love stash buster series and is now available in the shop. Fat Quarter Dash is quick, easy and you guessed it, fat quarter friendly.

My hope for this quilt pattern is that you can dig through your stash, find some fabrics to use and start sewing! This simple quilt is also a really great beginner or first time quilter quilt.

Fat Quarter Dash is available in the Quilty Love shop.

Quilty Love Palette Picks Fat Quarter Dash quilt

I’m super excited about the soon to be released Quilty Love Palette Picks bundle! I curated this bundle for Robert Kaufman using their basic fabric lines. It will start shipping to quilt shops in April. You can ask for it at your local quilt shop!

Quilt shops can pre-order through Robert Kaufman or your distributor now.

I made two different quilts (using two bundles) using only the warms and neutrals and only the cools and neutrals in this fat quarter bundle.

Beginner friendly quilt pattern

Fat Quarter Dash is a quick and easy beginner friendly quilt pattern! The Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern was written with beginners in mind. I get asked often for a good beginner quilt pattern.

There are a few beginner friendly quilt patterns in the Quilty Love shop but not one that is an obvious go-to. So I wrote this one for anyone looking to make a quilt for the very first time or looking for basic quilt patterns as a beginner.

Stash buster quilt pattern

Fat Quarter Dash is also a really great stash buster! I consider a quilt pattern a stash buster when it makes it easy to actually use up your stash! What makes Fat Quarter Dash a really great stash quilt is the fact that it doesn’t require background fabric. Every square inch of this quilt is made up of fabrics from your stash!

I mostly write my patterns around fat quarters since that is what most quilters have in their stash. Even if you collect half yards or yards you can still cut a fat quarter from those cuts.

Fat Quarter Dash is a fat quarter friendly quilt but you can get away with using a piece of fabric slightly smaller than a fat quarter. See the cutting diagrams in the pattern for the exact size.

Mix and Match fat quarter quilt pattern

Mix and match fat quarter quilts are my favorite quilts to make and design! They are so versatile. You can use a fat quarter bundle you already have or create your own using fabrics from your stash.

Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern

The Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern is a quick and easy quilt that includes all the quilt sizes. The pattern includes six different sizes: Baby, small throw, large throw, a twin size bed quilt, a queen size bed quilt and a king size bed quilt.

These Quilty Love Palette Pick Fat Quarter Dash quilts are both the small throw size.

If you want to make two quilts using just one of my Palette Picks bundles you can do that by making two baby size quilts!

I was excited to break up my Quilty Love Palette Picks bundle into a warm and cool bundle. I love how it easily separates out like that.

Long Arm Quilting

I sent both of these Fat Quarter Dash quilts off to Jenae of Vintage Stitch for long arm quilting. I think this quilting pantograph is called Squared.

The quilting pantograph on the warm version of Fat Quarter Dash is called Compass.

Gingham backing

Both of these Fat Quarter Dash quilts are backed with Robert Kaufman Carolina Gingham. The warm version uses the color Coral and the cool version uses the color Fog.

The gingham fabric makes the cutest backing on these quilts. These Carolina ginghams are really soft too.

Solid quilt bindings

Most of my quilt bindings are solid these days. I’m usually trying to use what I have on hand. Mostly that’s because I don’t plan ahead and don’t want to take the time to find something new.

The warm Fat Quarter Dash uses one of the Palette Picks fabrics. It’s actually an essex linen in the color aqua. I don’t really recommend using a linen like this for the binding but I have a few times. It’s a little thicker than a cotton and it does have a tendency to shrink more so I do try to avoid it for something like a binding.

The warm Fat Quarter Dash also uses a fabric from the Palette Picks bundle. The warm version is a kona cotton in the color Blush Pink. That’s one of my favorite colors in the bundle.

Materials Used

Quilt Pattern: Fat Quarter Dash by Quilty Love
Fabrics: Quilty Love Palette Picks bundle
Binding: Kona Cotton Blush Pink and Essex Linen Aqua
Backing: Carolina Gingham
Pieced on a Janome MC6700p
Long Arm quilted by Vintage Stitch

Fat Quarter Dash Quilt – Stash buster pattern

Today I’m sharing one of the many Fat Quarter Dash quilts! Fat Quarter Dash is the second in the Quilty Love Stash Buster Series. Fat Quarter Dash is not only a stash buster quilt pattern but a super beginner friendly quilt pattern.

All of the stash busters in the stash buster quilt pattern series don’t require background fabric. These quilt patterns are written primarily around fat quarters. The goal is that you can pull some fat quarters from your stash and start sewing!

Fat Quarter Dash is fast, easy and great for the very beginner quilter.

You can find Fat Quarter Dash in the Quilty Love Pattern Shop.

Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern

Fat Quarter Dash is fat quarter friendly! It’s pretty obvious with the name..haha. The Dash part in the name comes from the shapes in the blocks and the fact that this quilt is fast and easy and is sewn up quickly.

The Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern is written around fat quarters but half yards or even yards can be used for the larger sizes.

This quilt pattern was written with your fabric stash in mind! Mix and match fat quarters from your stash for this fast and easy quilt. Or pull the ribbon off a fat quarter bundle you have had sitting around.

Stash Buster Quilt Pattern

The stash buster quilt pattern series are all stash friendly quilts that don’t require background fabric. Without background fabric you really can start to make a dent in your fabric stash with these stash buster patterns.

My hope is that you can mix and match fabrics you already have in your stash for these quilts. I wrote a blog post all about mixing fabrics from your stash here. Scroll down the post for tips and tricks.

Easy beginner friendly quilt pattern

Fat Quarter Dash is the perfect beginner quilter quilt pattern! I’ve been wanting to expand my beginner friendly quilt patterns and this one is just that. I’m asked often for my beginner friendly patterns and while I have a few, I didn’t have a go-to obvious choice.

Fat Quarter Dash is written with beginner quilters in mind. It’s simple piecing and simple patchwork making it a good choice for a first quilt.

Beginner friendly quilts also tend to be fast and easy quilts for the more experienced quilter.

Collection CF Fat Quarter Dash

This is the original test quilt made using the Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern. I had this Collection CF fat quarter bundle in my stash that I couldn’t wait to cut into. I love how these modern fabrics all mix together without the use of a background fabric.

Machine wavy stitch quilting

It’s been a while since I have quilted a quilt! Lately I’ve been sending most of them off to a long arm quilter. My hours are so limited with the toddler so quilting has been outsourced more than ever.

I do enjoy quilting every once in a while though and if you have been following along for more than a minute you know it’s going to be the wavy stitch if I do it myself..ha.

This stitch is so easy and so forgiving and makes everything look good. It’s simple straight lines using a walking foot and the machine makes the wave as it goes. If your machine doesn’t have the wavy stitch, maybe it has the multi stitch zig zag. I did a tutorial with that stitch here. It’s the exact same method with either stitch.

Fat Quarter Dash quilt pattern sizes

Fat Quarter Dash includes instructions for all of the quilt sizes! I have you covered for a baby size, small throw size, large throw size, twin size, queen size and a king size.

I’ve included all of the bed sized quilts in the quilt pattern.

This Collection CF Fat Quarter Dash is the large throw size.

Ikea Flannel Duvet backing

This large throw size Fat Quarter Dash is backed in a warm and cozy Ikea flannel duvet. I picked up this duvet cover a while back and wish I had grabbed five more! The black polka dots are such a great neutral. Plus, it’s flannel! And extremely inexpensive. A duvet cover can back two quilts.

Kona cotton binding

I finished off this quick and easy quilt with a blue solid kona cotton fabric. This is the color Surf.

Materials Used:

Quilt Pattern: Fat Quarter Dash by Quilty Love
Prints: Collection CF by Carolyn Friedlander for Robert Kaufman
Binding: Kona cotton Surf
Backing: Ikea flannel duvet cover
Pieced and quilted on my Janome MC6700p
Batting: Quilters Dream Select
Spray Baste: 505