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Introducing the Vera Quilt and Pattern {Finish!}

finished quilts· quilt pattern

15 Jan
Hi guys! It’s ever such a lovely day here. (Not really. It’s rainy!) How are you?
Today, I’m releasing my Vera Quilt Pattern. This pattern is one of my new favorites because it is a quick way to use those collectable larger prints. This is one of the quicker quilts I’ve made in a long long while. And you know what? It was so lovely to have a quick and easy project.
The biggest challenge you might find in this pattern is sewing with triangles and bias piecing. If you’ve never sewn with triangles, no worries! I’ve included my favorite tip to walk you through piecing with triangles. Just a few times using my method, and you’ll be a pro.

 

My Vera Quilt, using the soon to be released (oh so soon!!! March! March! March!) Mendocino by Heather Ross is a throw size at 56” x 72”. The pattern also includes instructions for making 3 other sizes. And I also added a sidebar with instructions on how to make a mini.

 

Personally, I had a lot of fun quilting the background of my quilt. I used nested tear drops, bubbles, and swirls. And to make the background pop, I kept the quilting in the Vera blocks simple with straight line quilting.

 

I’m telling you. So much fun quilting.

 

And I couldn’t be more tickled that my Vera quilt appears on the cover of Windham’s lookbook. (Wheee!) (And get a load of that Anemone quilt, by Stacey Day! So fantastic.)

 

Copies of the Vera Quilt Pattern are available as instant PDF downloads in my shop. Craftsy and Payhip also have PDF patterns. Paper patterns should be here in 2 weeks and they are listed as Pre-Order. Once they are in stock and processed, we will send them right out to you.
Once again, I thank you for your support!
And thank you to my pattern testers who have helped me be a better me!
Check out the #veraquilt on Instagram for a look on what they’ve been working on. Pattern tester shares to come in the near future.
🙂

 

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  1. Darcy says

    January 15, 2016 at 5:36 pm

    Love this! Looking forward to the pattern release 🙂

  2. Christine S says

    January 15, 2016 at 5:59 pm

    This is great for Heather Ross prints!

  3. Melanie says

    January 16, 2016 at 3:42 pm

    I love this quilt! It's on my "must make" list!

  4. Hilary says

    January 17, 2016 at 1:11 am

    So pretty!

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I’ve made things I didn’t like. I’ve cut fabric wrong. I’ve had ideas that worked beautifully in my head and... not so beautifully once I started sewing them together.

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I think sometimes we put so much pressure on ourselves to make something perfect that we forget we’re allowed to just play.

👉 You’re allowed to mess up the fabric.
👉 You’re allowed to make something ugly.
👉 You’re allowed to try something you’re not so sure about.

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You never stop learning, creating, making mistakes, and repeating the whole process. You’ll discover a new technique to try, a new way to use the fabric already sitting in your stash, a project that stretches you just enough to make that eventual TA-DA! feel even better.

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