Our Wide Stripes Quilt

by Judy Gula

Our Wide Stripes Quilt

by Judy Gula

Our enewsletter this week featured a free gift to subscribers, our Wide Stripes Batik Lap Quilt pattern — visit our Tutorials page to download your copy! (Don’t receive our enewsletter? Subscribe using the box to the right.)

Wide Stripes Batik Lap Quilt by Artistic Artifacts Created and stitched by Chris Vinh of StitchesnQuilts, this design: fits in with any décor, from modern to traditional, and is quick and easy to put together — we love it! Batik Tambal Exclusive Batik used in the Artistic Artifacts Wide Stripes quilt

This beauty was sewn using our Batik Tambal Exclusive Batik. Pictured right, top to bottom, are:

This pattern will be beautiful in whatever colors and patterns you love. But since one of Chris’ great gifts is the ability to pick amazing color and fabric combinations, enjoy the eye candy of the “bundles” she put together of Aborigine-designed fabrics from Australia as she was deciding on fabrics for our example.

Blue themed quartet of Australian Aborigine-designed fabrics

Above, left to right, Desert Rose Blue by Patricia Weeks; Fire Dreaming Blue by Janet Long; Untitled Blue by Nambooka and; Dropping Seeds Neutral by Roseanne Morton.

Red themed quartet of Australian Aborigine-designed fabrics

Above, top to bottom, Suklage Ash by Anna Pitjara; Fire Dreaming Red by Janet Long; Gathering Bush Tomatoes Ash by A. Nanagarri and Kangaroo in the Desert Rain Red by Judda.

Gold themed quartet of Australian Aborigine-designed fabrics

Above, top to bottom: Desert Rose Orange by Patricia Weeks; Wild Bush Honey Ant Mint by Audrey Martin Napanangka; Untitled Gold by Nambooka and Waterhole & Seeds Gold by Anna Pitjara.

To create a lap-size Wide Stripes quilt top requires just one yard each of four fabrics. We do list that if you instead choose 2½ yards of your chosen sashing/border fabric, you can complete a matching pieed backing for your quilt. Because you will have extra fabric left, including a pieced strip of your four fabrics remaining as you cut per our directions, you can create a backing so pretty your quilt is reversible! Look at the back of our sample:

Pieced backing of the Artistic Artifacts Wide Stripes Batik Quilt

Enjoy making your quilt in the colors and patterns you love best. (And we’d love it if you share photos of your work with us!)

Remember that in addition to our regular Facebook presence, we have set up Artistic Artifacts' Creative Minds, a Facebook group that’s a virtual extension of Judy’s Altered Minds (JAMs, which meets monthly in the shop). On Facebook group members — art quilters, collage artists, art journal keepers, surface design enthusiasts, paper crafters, assemblage & art doll artists, and more from all over the US and beyond — have a place to share ideas and projects with one another. Representing all levels of expertise, this is a online home for our Creative Minds to encourage and support like-minded friends. Join Us!


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