Baby Bites Free Modern Baby Quilt Pattern

Marny here...Using the Random Number generator we declare the winner of a copy of Lunch Boxes is Char!  Send us an email Char and we will arrange getting your pattern to you.    

Surprise!! Here is Baby Bites, a free modern baby quilt pattern.  We promised that we would share this a few weeks back.  It was part of our submission to the Online Quilt Magazine published in Australia.  We love this little quilt.  Maybe you remember the quilt backing tutorial Jill did a long time ago.  True to our mission, Baby Bites is a simply sophisticated design that reflects a modern aesthetic.  Asymmetry, exaggerated scale of simple shapes and negative space are all parts of that aesthetic.  

Click on this link to get to an easily printable version of the pattern.  Below is a complete set of directions as well.

Baby Bites from Modern Quilt Relish

Baby Bites is a quick and easy baby quilt any modern baby/mom would love receiving.  It measures 38” x 48”.  Simple geometric shapes are set asymmetrically on negative space. The somewhat oversized large squares feature a high contrast fabric.  These squares are clearly the focus of the quilt not only because of their size and placement, but also because of fabric selection.  The fabric is more saturated (intense) and more complex in motif design than the neighboring backgrounds. Merging the two different valued backgrounds between the squares both isolates the squares and makes them appear to float above the surface.  This added depth gives the quilt interest and an element of the unexpected.  

Fabric Requirements:  we give suggested yardage.  It is possible to piece the large background areas and save yardage, but if you purchase the suggested amounts and cut as directed you will have enough remaining to complete the back of your baby quilt.  LOF=length of fabric.  WOF=width of fabric.

Squares-Floral Focus...⅓ yard…cut an 8” WOF strip…sub cut this strip into five 8” squares.

Left Background-Medium Blue…1 ½ yards, sub cut this into:  one 22 ½” LOF strip  (will be cut later to 22 ½” x 48” or the length of your quilt) and one 3” LOF strip (sub cut this 3” strip into four 3” x 4 ¼” rectangles).

  

Right Background-Light Yellow…1 ½ yards, sub cut this into: one 9” LOF strip (will be cut later to 9” x 48” or the length of your quilt) and one 3” LOF strip (sub cut this 3” strip into four 3” x 4 ¼” rectangles).

Binding…1/2 yard (you are only using 12 ½” so perhaps you can get by with 3/8 yard)…cut five 2 ½” WOF strips.

Piecing Instructions:  Refer to the photos.  ¼” seams throughout.  Press seams open for a flat finished look.  Remove selvages.

Step 1.  Piece a 3” x 4 ¼” rectangle of Left Background and a 3” x 4 ¼” rectangle of Right Background together along their shorter edge.  Repeat three times for a total of four Step 1 units.

Step 2.  Checking the orientation in the photographs, piece a Step 1 unit to the lower edge of four of the 8" Squares.

Baby Bites full view from Modern Quilt Relish

Step 3.  Again following the photographs, piece four Step 2 units into a column.

Step 4.  Add the fifth 8” Square to the lower edge of this column.

      

Step 5.  Measure the length of your completed column.  Either cut the 22 ½” x LOF piece of Left Background appropriately and then add it to the left side of the quilt, or add first and then trim to fit.

     

Step 6.  Either cut the 9” x LOF piece of Right Background appropriately and then add it to the right side of the quilt, or add first and then trim to fit.  

      

Step 7.  Quilt, bind and savor.

  So till next Tuesday!

Sliced Bread from Modern Quilt Relish Video 2

We're debuting our second video in the series for the free printable pattern Sliced Bread.  Clearly we are still learning (very evident at the end of the video).  But as they say, you have to start somewhere.

Anyway, this video covers "two ruler" cutting skills.  There is a nice little demonstration on how to cut without having to flip fabric or rulers around.  Take a look!




You can click on the label Sliced Bread Free Quilt Pattern to get to the posts with all the directions for making the modern baby quilt.

Next week we'll be making a strip set and subcutting it into the correct segments for the quilt.

We've started a Pinterest Board for our videos.  Hopefully it will grow and, fingers crossed, become more professional.

We are hard at work sewing, designing and writing our next project.  Hopefully we can share more specifics soon.

Till Tuesday

Easy Modern Baby Quilt Printable Recipe

Marny here...lots to share this week. 

First, please note our new look!  We are so excited to start showing it off.  We have to thank Lindsey, our logo designer, for translating our requests into a fresh, modern new look for Modern Quilt Relish.  You will be hearing a bit more about Lindsey in the coming months.  She is a wonderful designer with diverse experience and technological skills.

Lindsey can be reached at: Lindsey@lindseybuck.com

Also take a look to the right of the post to see our new "button".  You can grab it using the html code and put it on your blogs or just share the Modern Quilt Relish jar as you see fit.  In the future our buttons might have reasons, like quilt-a-longs, etc.  But for now it leads you back to our blog in general.

Now for the printable recipe of Sliced Bread as promised in last week's post.  You can just click on the link, scroll all the way to the very bottom of the page it sends you to and click on the "print page" option.  The pattern appears below as well.

We are also experimenting with video.  Here is one on choosing fabric for our Sliced Bread quilt.  The video will also be on YouTube.

Sliced Bread from Modern Quilt Relish

Sliced Bread, an easy modern baby quilt from Modern Quilt Relish. It finishes 44" square. We love the simplicity of this quilt.  Choose a lively Focus Fabric and a high contrast Background or make the contrast more subtle.  The choice is yours!  Please note the Background Fabric should be nondirectional. Sliced Bread is a perfect quilt for less experienced quilters.  The number of seam allowances from left to right is the same as the number from top to bottom.  So, as long as your "quarter inch" seam allowance is consistent you should end up with a square.   All seams are pressed open.  WOF = width of fabric.  Remove selvages. Fabric Requirements:  42" useable width     Focus Fabric:  1 yard for both squares and binding   (OR  5/8 yard for squares and 1/2 yard of a different fabric for binding)     Nondirectional Background Fabric:  1 1/4 yard  Backing:  2 1/8 yards pieced.  (One 54" piece and two 10" pieces sewn end to end,  trimmed to 54" long and then seamed to the 54" piece.) Cutting Instructions:     Focus Fabric:  Cut three 6 1/2" x WOF strips.   From one cut a total of four 6 1/2" x 6 1/2" squares.  Put aside the other two for strip sets. Cut five 2 1/2" WOF strips for binding.     Background Fabric:  Cut nine 4 1/2" x WOF strips.         Strips 1 & 2:  Put aside to use in strip sets.         Strips 3-7:  Cut each of these into a 4 1/2" x 36 1/2" rectangle.  Five total.   (OR wait to cut these until you measure your completed pieced strips.)         Strips 8 & 9:  Add leftovers from the above strips to create two strips 4 1/2" x 44 1/2".    (Or you can wait until you measure your pieced quilt top and cut them that length.)   Piecing Instructions:  Press all seams open. Step 1.  Take one 6 1/2" x WOF strip of Focus Fabric and  one 4 1/2" x WOF strip of Background.  Seam them together along their length.   Step 2.  Cut this strip set into six units 6 1/2" x 10 1/2".   Step 3.  Repeat Steps 1 and 2.  You will have twelve units total. Step 4.  Following the orientation shown in the diagram,  seam three of these units together.   Step 5.  Add one 6 1/2" x 6 1/2" square of Focus Fabric as diagramed. Step 6.  Repeat Steps 4 & 5 three more times.  You will have four pieced strips. Step 7.  Seam a 4 1/2" x 36 1/2" strip of Background fabric to the top edge of  each of these pieced strips. Step 8.  Seam the units created in Step 7 together as seen below. Step 9.  Seam the remaining 4 1/2" x 36 1/2" strip of Background to the bottom edge of this. Step 10.  Seam one 4 1/2" x 44 1/2" strip of Background to the left edge and one  to the right edge. Step 12.  Quilt, Bind and Savor.

Ignore the little "add comment" button immediately below this--it is an artifact I didn't know I'd copied and pasted into this post.  (Just when you think you've got it???)  If you'd like to comment do so in the regular way.  Till Tuesday...

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Announcing a Free, Easy Modern Baby Quilt Pattern Ahead, Pass it on!

Marny here...Baby showers are so much fun.  They are such a celebration!

You get to make amusing little decorations. 

Serve candy disguised as placecards

Share a meal with friends.

And the gifts are always so much fun to look at and explore.  Wonderful books, hand knit items, adorable clothes, stuffed animals and of course, baby quilts.

Sliced Bread Quilt completed and heading to a new home!

Among the UFO's discovered in my sewing room cleanup was a really simple, really cute baby quilt top I finished long ago.  (This has been shown unfinished in the past on our blog.)  I always loved this two fabric quilt with its open space and the simple repetition of shape.  The bubble fabric is so cheerful and features transparency!

As you can see it is a Free Spirit fabric.  Sadly, I don't think it is available any longer.

I took it (and three other baby quilt tops) to April.  She put a rush on it and I was able to bind and happily present it at a baby shower for the special mom to be!  (Hint, Jill is the special grandmother to be!)

Close up of active quilting and pieced binding on Sliced Bread Quilt

The pattern is such a clean design and is so doable and easy!  It occurred to me others would like a simple quilt ready to give to the next lucky baby coming their way.  So get ready.

We will be sharing printable instructions next Tuesday, September 11th.  Please pass the information on!  The more the merrier!  Share on Facebook and Pinterest and on your blogs and any other way you see fit.  Thank you!

Sliced Bread Quilt Free Printable Pattern coming soon to the Modern Quilt Relish blog. 

See you then.