Jolly Bar 4 Quilt Along

 I'm participating in the Jolly Bar 4 Quilt Along,,sponsored by Fat Quarter Shop.

The Jolly Bar 4 book has 84 pages of 20 full color quilt patterns, designed just for Fat Quarter Shop's Jolly Bar precuts.

A Jolly Bar is half of a layer cake, measuring 5"X10".  There are usually 42 prints in the collection.  

The quilt along runs from January to March 2023.  There will be a few blocks to sew every week.  Here is the cute quilt for the sew along, made from all the blocks in the book.

I have narrowed my fabric line choices down to 5 Jolly Bars.  I am hoping that you can tell me decide which Jolly Bar will work the best!

The first Jolly Bar is "Stitch" by Lori Holt.  The colors are pure and vibrant.  I love everything Lori Holt designs!

The next Jolly Bar is "Holly Jolly" by Urban Chiks.  I have loved every single line that Urban Chiks has printed but have never had one of their Christmas fabric!

The next Jolly Bar is "Midnight Magic II" by April Rosenthal.  I also love her fabric and wouldn't it be cute to have a Halloween theme!

The next Jolly Bar is "Smoke & Rust" by Lella Boutique.  This color scheme would be so different and very modern.  For me, it would be thinking outside o the box!

Last but not least is "Kitty Corn" by Urban Chiks.  I love the vintage black cats, and the cute Halloween designs.

Please, please leave a comment and tell me which Jolly Bar I should choose for the Jolly Bar 4 QAL.  

I don't think I'll be able to choose! 😩

Jolly Bar 4 Quilt Along

I've joined the Jolly Bar 4 Quilt Along, sponsored by the Fat Quarter Shop.  What's a Jolly Bar you ask?  It's sold exclusively at the Fat Quarter Shop. It's a pack of each fabric in a collection, usually about 42 pieces, 5" X 10". Kimberly Jolly and her husband Kevin are the owners of Fat Quarter Shop, hence the name Jolly Bar. 

The Jolly Bar book is also 5" X 10" and is very easy to use with the spiral binding. The book retails for $10.95 which is very inexpensive for a book with 84 color pages and 20 quilt patterns.  Here are all the blocks in the book, and each block has step by step color instructions along with directions on how to make an entire quilt out of the one block.  There are a lot of really cute ones.

I talked about this quilt along on my blog in October and asked you to vote for the Jolly Bar that you liked the best.  Kitty Corn, a Halloween line of fabric got the most votes.  Unfortunately, the Jolly Bars were sold out.  The next highest votes were for Holly Jolly by Urban Chiks. I have always loved this collection, so I was thrilled to sew with it!  I always love Lori Holt fabric but wanted to spread my wings and try something a little different.

Did I mention that every Jolly Bar comes with a free pattern?

Here's a photo of the quilt we will be making.  It has one of almost every block that's in the Jolly Bar 4 book.  The quilt along begins on Thursday, January 19 and is every week until March 16.  I'll be posting 2 blocks a week here on my blog and on Instagram and Facebook.

 

Here are the goodies that I unboxed from Fat Quarter Shop! It will take 2 Jolly Bars to make the quilt. The red gingham is the binding, the pink candy cane goes where the gray I on the quilt and the Lori Holt bee basic is the background.

I'm so excited about this, I love quilt alongs :)

I hope you'll join me!

Jolly Bar 4 QAL, week Two

 Welcome to Week 2 of the Jolly Bar 4 QAL.

You can find out the instructions for this week's blocks on

 Fat Quarter Shop's blog, Jolly Jabber. Although you still need the Jolly Bar 4 book for the dimensions of the blocks.

This first block is called Stained Glass and can be found on page 60. It's a lot of fun choosing which fabrics I'll be using as I go along.

This block is called Herb Garden. In the book, they show you what a quilt would look like with just this block, and everything you need to know is included.  The book really is pretty cool!  There are 20 quilt patterns in all. 

 

I'll look forward to seeing you next week :)

Jolly Bar 4 QAL, Week One

 Today is the first day of the Jolly Bar 4 QAL, 

hosted by Fat Quarter Shop.

All of the information will be on their blog, the Jolly Jabber.

Here is the book that has all of the blocks and cutting info.

This is what the finished quilt will look like.

These are the Jolly Bars I'm using.  I need two of them.

Holly Jolly by Urban Chiks, a cute Christmas line.

Here is my first block, Shirley Temple. Candy canes for a sweet block which measures 10 1/2" square.

The next block is called Whoopsie Daisy 

and it measures 11 1/2" square.

Both blocks were very easy, this is definitely a quilt for a beginner.

I've never sewn with Jolly Bars before, I'm really enjoying it so far!

See you next Thursday for Week Two ❤️

You can read a previous post about the quilt along here.

jolly Bar 4 QAL, Week Four

This Jolly Bar quilt along is really fun!  I've never worked with Jolly Bars before.  For this Mosaic block, I used the same print in each of the four color ways. I'm curious to see how it goes with the availability of prints towards the end.  I'm just working with 5" X 10" pieces of fabric, so there probably won't be much left towards the end of the blocks. This quilt calls for two Jolly Bars.

 This is the Nutcracker block. I'm being creative with my fabric selections, meaning that there are only so many pieces left.

 I've got some blocks sewn together so you can get an idea as to what the quilt will look like.

This quilt along is sponsored by The Fat Quarter Shop.

All of the info for this quilt along is on the Jolly Jabber blog.

Jolly Bar 4 QAL, Week Five

This is the Blueprint block, the largest one.  It measures 27 1/2" square. This block called for some extra fabric (the pink candy cane fabric), because the trim is larger than a Jolly Bar.  Normally, I would have used more vibrant fabric in this block, but there is only so much selection.  I had to be creative!

This is the Stardust block. It's very simple or easy.
 

The Fat Quarter Shop is hosting this quilt along. You can read more about the quilt along on the Jolly Jabber blog.

Jolly Bar 4 Sampler Finish!

I loved this quilt along, and I love my new quilt! It will be perfect for Christmas next year, I love the Holly Jolly fabric! 

I was able to choose the pretty poinsettia fabric for the back.  It's from the Holly Jolly line.

I'm in love with the ,machine quilting.  My friend Pam from Sweet Pz in Gilbert, Arizona, quilted it.  Feathers and swirls.

Christmas colors, reds, pinks and greens. My favorite!

I bound the quilt in a cute red gingham.  

A  big thank you to Fat Quarter Shop for all the inspiration.

Thanks for following along, I really appreciate it.

Jolly Bar 4 QAL, Week Seven

 This is the Festoon block.  I would like to design a quilt, just so I could name the blocks....or the quilt. This block has quite a scrappy look.  

This is the Double Dutch block.  Did you ever play double dutch with cup ropes?  I used to be really good at it, lol!

The Fat Quarter Shop is hosting this quilt along, and all the information is on the Jolly Jabber blog.

One more week to go!

Jolly Bar 4 QAL, Week Six

 This is the Illumination block. It's very colorful with all the candy canes!  I love the look of red and pink together :)

This is the Zinnia block, I love it!  

I'm really looking forward to seeing all these pretty blocks in the quilt.

You can find the Fat Quarter Shop here, they're the hosts of this quilt along.  You can read more about the quilt along on the Jolly Jabber blog.

Jolly Bar 4 QAL, week Three

 I'm really enjoying this quilt along sponsored by the Fat Quarter Shop.

This is the Galway block, very easy. All the blocks are beginner.  It's been fun choosing the colors and prints for the blocks.

This is the Curio block.  I decided to use the Santa prints because the pieces are bigger. 

You can follow the Fat Quarter Shop's blog, the Jolly Jabber where you can see these blocks in other fabrics.

Week One

Week Two

See you next Thursday for Week Three!

Jolly Bar 4 QAL, Week Eight

This is the Primrose block.  From the beginning, I knew I would use a Santa print in this block because the pieces are large.  This block measures 18 l/2" square.. 

This is the Shoofly Pie block. It measures 16 l/2" square.  There are quite a few large blocks in this quilt.

This is the last week for the blocks.  Next week I'll show you the quilt reveal ❤️ I've loved this quilt along.  All of the blocks were very easy to make and it was just plain fun choosing all the prints for each block.  A big thank you to the Fat Quarter Shop for hosting this quilt along.  

Stay Gold

 

I belong to the Phoenix Modern Quilt Guild. I shared my Stay Gold quilt with fabric from Ruby Star Society, and my friend Nedra pointed out that I matched my quilt :)

Also, my dear young friend Sarah came over and we made Raspberry Lemon Curd macarons together.  It was a lot of fun!!!

I will be posting on Thursdays for the Jolly Bar 4 quilt along.

I will see you Thursday ❤️

Have a fun, Quilty week!

One Yard Apron

I made a One Yard Apron, the instructions are by Lori Holt.  Instead of adding two pockets in the front, I added a continuous pocket piece with I divided into four. I made it for my daughter in law who has just become a second grade teacher :) 

Here's a close up of the fabric, alphabet letters and instructions on how to make a pillowcase.  I thought the children would enjoy reading the words. I wonder what she's going to put in all those pockets!

I've made this pattern before, I really like it.  You can see the others I've made here.

See you on Thursday for the Jolly Bar 4 QAL.

Scrappy Winged Square block

 In 2022, I joined the Phoenix Modern Quilt Guild's Sol Bee.

I designed my block, cut and measured all the pieces, and wrote up a pattern.  I gave them out at our June meeting.  I had some Sarah Jane's "Children at Play" fabric which was over 10 years old.  I was saving it for a special project.

I tried to use what I had, and I was successful!  I had some pale yellow for the sashing, and both of the outer borders are also Children at Play.

I was going to make a scrappy sashing out of 2 1/2" squares, but I thought it would make the blocks disappear.

The center squares of all of the blocks are Sarah Jane fabric.

That line that Sarah Jane created so many years ago, is one of my all time favorites!  I still have a lot to make at least two more quilts!

This is my favorite type of fabric.  I call it "little girl" fabric.

The pinks, blues, yellows and low volume fabrics are all from my scraps. It's comical when you use scraps for a quilt and your scrap bin looks exactly the same!

This is the block that I made.  I love the deer!  

Now that the Jolly Bar 4 quilt along is over, I'll be posting on Monday mornings again.

Thank you so much for following me!