Jelly Weave in Quick + Easy Quilts

Happy mail arrived today! I’ve received my advance copies of the December/January issue of Fons & Porter’s Quick + Easy Quilts. You can find my latest baby quilt pattern, Jelly Weave, on page 42! I am always so excited when the projects come back, and then I wait nervously for my copies of the magazine to come, so I can see how the project looks. What a rush.

Jelly Weave was my response to a prompt asking to both use precuts and to do stash busting. I often use precuts – 2 1/2″ strip sets are so handy. I can do a bunch with them, but sometimes there are a few stray strips leftover. This project uses 6 leftover strips, plus a yard of background to make a 36″ square baby quilt. Fabric was provided by the great people over at Andover Fabrics. It is from Alison Glass’s Sunprint 2021 collection.

Jelly Weave baby quilt, along with painting and magazine.

I know this simple design will come as a bit of a shock, but sometimes even I need to make something easy. For this quilt, I have one little section of piecing squares, and once that is done, it is all straight long seams. I like it so much I event painted a picture of it!

I hope you love this one as much as I do. It is a super quick make, and is lovely, even though it is simple. The hard part for me is going to be finding a baby to give it to.

This project was so little that I even quilted it on my domestic machine, which I almost never do. Right from the start I just wanted a grid of straight lines, mimicking the piecing. Quilting it on my domestic was much, much easier than doing it on my longarm would have been.

You can get a copy of the Quick + Easy Quilts issue containing Jelly Weave from the QuiltingDaily.com website, or at your local bookstore or quilt shop, I hope!

Previously published projects

Happy quilting!

6 thoughts on “Jelly Weave in Quick + Easy Quilts

  1. Congratulations; the quilt looks beautifully styled in the photoshoot for the magazine. I don’t tend to have jelly rolls, but left over 2 1/2″ strips from making binding is really common for me. I like having some go-to quick makes like this.

  2. Congratulations, Jennifer! Of all the quilts in the magazine, I am going to make yours first! (Two of my projects are also in Quick +Easy Quilts. Exciting for us both!)

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