I am so excited to present to you my scrappy chevron quilt and pattern!!! It is another pattern release party day! Here I talk about the quilt, pattern, fabric, and giveaway. Yes, I said giveaway, so let’s start the party!
Aron’s Chevron Quilt
The idea for this quilt came to me more than a year ago when I had a Moda scrap bag. As I thought about what I could create with the scrap bag, I kept coming back to a chevron. Something that I had always wanted to make but up until that point had never made. (Now I am working on my third chevron quilt.) I submitted this design to the Moda Bake Shop and it was accepted, but when the box of fabric arrived I didn’t find a scrap bag, instead there was a layered cake. I used this to my advantage and designed three different quilts around the layered cake. These quilts are my windmill quilt series. (Old Fashioned Windmill Quilt, Hi-Tech Windmill Quilt and mix of the two).
I held onto my scrappy chevron for a later pattern. There are so many different ways to make them and my pattern is one that you can pull from your stash to create, something I like to call a stash buster. I love this quilt because it calls for fat quarters, something that I keep accumulating. It is an easy pattern that a beginner could make. As long as you keep the half square triangle seam in the center of your 9.25” square, you don’t have any major seams to worry about matching. With this pattern, you have the ability to choose from a queen size or a lap size. I personally love lap size quilts because they fit perfectly on the foot of my queen size bed and they are easier to quilt.
The Fabric
To make this quilt, I pulled my fabrics from a Christmas collection by Kate Spain for Moda. I found it at my LQS here in Tucson. Kate Spain is a bold, fresh, and colorful designer. I always LOVE her fabric lines. This one is called Merry Merry. It’s adorable! The pomegranates are such a smart and original addition to a Christmas fabric and the bird is so cute, too. The colors are perfect especially the grey. I selected eight of the designs from her collection to use in this lap size quilt.
The Quilting
Guess what?? This quilting was done by me and I did it on my domestic machine. In the past, I have had a hard time developing my machine quilting skills. Luckily, my sister lets me use her long arm, but now that I moved it’s a little bit harder for me to be able to use it. I am accumulating a pile of quilts I need to get quilted. That is why this year I have focused on machine quilting. It is the third one that I quilted this year and my best work yet. I have to say that the very first quilt that I experimented with my Bernina (BSR) foot ended up being a baby quilt for a friend. The quilting on that looked like a four year old’s scribbling. But done is better than perfect, and working through something is the only way to learn, to get better. I waited years before I tried again. Earlier this year I took a class at my LQS. I had a eureka moment, finally figuring out how to use my BSR foot correctly.
The Pattern
I call this pattern Aron’s Chevron Quilt. The downloadable pattern is for sell in my Craftsy shop now so head over to Craftsy and get yourself a copy. The Instagram hashtag for this pattern is #aronschevronquilt. Share your photo of this quilt using this hashtag because I would love to see them. It is so much fun to see what others make. Also don’t forget to post your finished Brown Bird Design projects with the #brownbirddesignscreations on Instagram to enter into the quarterly giveaway.
The Giveaway
The happy winner will get a printout of the pattern, eight fat quarters of Merry Merry, a spool of Aurifil thread, and a pair of embroidery scissors. To enter into the giveaway, follow me on Instagram, like the giveaway photo, tag two friends, and repost the giveaway picture using #aronsquiltgiveaway. Good luck! The winner will be announced on Dec. 28th on Instagram. This time I will double check the date before I announce the winner.
