Simple Strippy Quilt

Most of the time I like to keep things simple and this is one of those sewing projects that you can do at your own pace and make whatever size you like. It's stress free! You may not like my colours - I do rather go for "sludgy", but I hope you can imagine it in your own favourite fabrics.

I bought just 5 fat quarters especially



and added others from past projects and from jumble sales - I do love jumble sales. I chose lots of checks and stripes.

The quilt is made up of strips from top to bottom which are, from left to right, 6" wide, 5" wide, 4" wide ........ repeated across the quilt and ending with a 5" wide strip. I did mean all the patches in the strips to be squares, but changed my mind when I couldn't bear to waste some leftover stripey bits.

Many of the 4" and 5" squares are just one fabric, but all the 6" squares are pieced in some manner.

The 4" blocks are stripes, fourpatch and applique














The 5" are fourpatch, ninepatch, stripes and applique

The 6" are ninepatch, stripes and applique














Putting it all together
I made up all the blocks before I sewed any together so that I could add extra fabrics as and when I liked. How exciting when I laid them all out and tried to get the colours and designs balanced across the quilt. I sewed them into their strips and then sewed the strips together. Hurrah! - no seams to match up! As the quilt is a large double bed size, I actually made it up in two halves, put these in their layers with the wadding and backing, and sewed them together after quilting. I quilted by machine along the seams of the strips down the length of the quilt, and by hand between these quilting lines.

Flowerpatch Group Quilt
Flowerpatch Quilters made a quilt in a similar design to raise money for Shelterbox.

I have written a printer-friendly one page PDF with suggestions, if you'd like to design your own similar Strippy Quilt. 
This is the link:

Design a Simple Strippy Quilt

Happy Sewing - Anita

Penny Armitage at Flowerpatch

I'm Anita. Hello - and welcome to my blog.

I love sewing and in particular all aspects of patchwork and quilting.

I mostly like to do my own thing but, of course, inspired by all the many other patchworkers sharing their ideas online, in books and at workshops. I hope you will like some of the quilts, bags and cushions, etc that I show you in my future blogs and will be encouraged to sew.

I belong to a super patchwork group in Cornwall called Flowerpatch Quilters and will be writing about our meetings each month so let me start with our February meeting.

Our speaker was Penny Armitage and what a wonderful and varied selection of wall hangings she showed us. Her talk was called "From Kuwait to Exmoor  - A Quilter's Journey". Her quilts covered such diverse subjects as Arabian Faces, Torville and Dean, Pearl Diving, Cowslip Workshops, the Wild West of Exmoor and her beloved botanicals, including her favourite - Fuschias. Here are three of her amazing pieces.

Thank you Penny for an entertaining and inspiring evening.

Flowerpatch members were delighted to see that our "St Thomas" quilt appears on the cover of South West Quilters book of the exhibition that was held in Truro Cathedral in Summer 2014.

The exhibition showed quilts by individuals and groups from all over Cornwall and each one represented a different Saint. It will be at Cowslip Workshops over Easter.

The next Flowerpatch meeting will be on 12th March and is a Four Corners evening to include rotary cutting, binding, curved piecing, etc.

Thank you for reading my very first blog! - Anita