Hi friends! I'm happy to share a recent quilt finish with you today!
I made this just for fun as I thought it would be beautiful in my own home.
Towards the end of August 2025, I got a wild hair to take one of my most popular patterns,
Scrap Jar Stars and make it not-so-scrappy! I love two-color quilts and thought it would
be fun to see a simplified, timeless version it!
It was love at first block! And it brings me so much joy every time I look this quilt because
all of the fabrics are fabrics I designed! The background fabric is called Sketchy Leaves
in the color Linen from my Feels Like Home collection with Riley Blake Designs.
The blue fabric is called Daisies in the color Sky from my collection Honey Locust
with RBD.
I got most of the quilt top put together at a quilt retreat that I went to in September.
(My friends and I did a photo shoot with all of our quilts on the last day of our retreat.)
I am not gonna lie, it's all I got done at the 5-day retreat (besides our daily walks,
chatting, floating a river, cooking and eating, shopping, a few naps, etc. It was a GREAT retreat!)
I brought a bunch of other projects but unfortunately, this took the majority of the time.
I added the border once I got back home.
This pattern comes with 4 quilt-size options - baby, lap, twin, and queen.
I added on one row to the twin size to make it a little wider.
My friend Jen Ostler in Highland, Utah quilted it with straight lines.
Those are always a win in my book!
The backing fabric is also from my collection, Honey Locust with Riley Blake Designs.
It's called Hydrangeas in the color Sky. I hand-bound it in the blue daisy fabric.
It had been a while since I've hand-bound a quilt and I thoroughly enjoyed doing it!
And per usual, I added one of the simple labels I get from Ever Emblem. They're so easy to sew into the binding so I don't have an excuse to not label my quilts! I get the 2" cotton, fold-over, sew-in labels. If you want to get some for yourself, you will just have to pick one of their basic cotton labels and customize it from there. I machine stitch my binding down around it because it's hard to hand stitch through it (but then I usually hand stitch the rest of my binding down to the back of my quilt).
I'm not sure where this quilt will "land". On the back of a sofa, a chair, or on a bed?
But I know I will not regret having this timeless blue and "white" quilt in my home!
This one is definitely a keeper!
I want to give you the fabric requirements in case you want to make a two-color
version of Scrap Jar Stars. First, you will need the pattern. You can get the
All fabric requirements will stay the same, except that instead of using bright print fat quarters,
you will need:
Baby quilt = 1-1/2 yards of 1 accent color + the optional non-scrappy binding fabric
Lap quilt = 2-1/2 yards of 1 accent color + the optional non-scrappy binding fabric
Twin quilt = 2-7/8 yards of 1 accent color + the optional non-scrappy binding fabric
Queen quilt = 5-1/2 yards of 1 accent color + the optional non-scrappy binding fabric
Cutting will be a little different, so here are the number of 2" and 3-1/2" strips to cut for each quilt size:
Baby quilt = cut (8) 2" strips and (9) 3-1/2" strips
Lap quilt = cut (13) 2" strips and (15) 3-1/2" strips
Twin quilt = cut (16) 2" strips and (18) 3-1/2" strips
Queen quilt = cut (32) 2" strips and (36) 3-1/2" strips
Then cut the necessary squares for your chosen quilt size.
Hope that helps! Let me know if you decide to make a two-color version!
Or even a scrappy version! They're both so fun! Who doesn't love stars and patchwork!?!
Happy quilting!