Hi friends, it’s Julia from Bayhill Studio and I am thrilled to be sharing the Maybelle quilt with you today!
The Maybelle pattern comes from the brand new Precut Parade book written by Jessica Dayon. As you can tell by the title, all of the patterns in Jessica’s book are precut friendly. Yay!
You can follow Jessica on Instagram where she is sharing all of the details about her book, as well as quilts created by other talented quilters using the patterns in her book.
For my version of the Maybelle quilt, I used fabrics from the Maple collection designed by Gabrielle Neil. This pattern calls for a rolie polie, along with a few other complimentary prints. I absolutely LOVE the fabrics in this collection! The color palette has an “elegant fall” vibe to it, pairing peaches and plums with chartreuse and rust. The artistry is simply dreamy with layered leaves, tiny flowers, and even miniature pumpkins!
The overall look is warm and inviting. The only alteration I made to the original pattern was to remove one row so that I ended up with a square throw size quilt. I say “throw size,” but this is definitely a large, oversized throw quilt. I plan on using it at the end of my king size bed for a splash of color, and for something to grab when I need to cuddle up with a good book.
The borders do a beautiful job at framing the quilt. I used the purple Maple Fall print for the binding. This is the same print that was repeated in the churn dash style blocks that are repeated throughout the quilt design. I love how repeating this print in the binding pulls the whole design together.
For the quilt back, I used the purple Texture print available as part of Riley Blake Designs’ Texture Basics collection.
I started to quilt this in an all over meandering design, but quickly changed to this random leaf motif. It isn’t much different than the meandering design, except that instead of rounded curves, I created points. So, you can see on the second fold there are round curves, and then on the first fold, pointy leaves. Once the quilt was completely quilted, it wasn’t easy to see the different styles, but they are there. I love experimenting, so I had no qualms switching up designs part way through and I’m excited to play around with more leaf motifs in the future.
Precut Parade, by Jessica Dayon, is available now on Amazon.
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