True North Quilts & Mini’s

Earli­er this year I released my first quilt pat­tern, True North.  It’s what I like to call a one block won­der since there’s no sash­ing and is my favour­ite type of quilt to make since they come togeth­er so eas­ily once all of the blocks are done.   I’ve seen a few dif­fer­ent ver­sions pop up and thought it would be fun to share some of them with you all.

I made my own lap size ver­sion using Day­sail by Bon­nie & Cam­ille.   My hus­band and young­est daugh­ter went camp­ing recently and decided it would be the per­fect size to take with them.   Not such great an idea in my opin­ion!    Thank­fully it arrived home safe and sound and we’ve all come to an under­stand­ing that it won’t be taken camp­ing again.

I’ve also made a mini using a slightly dif­fer­ent and much smal­ler ver­sion of the blocks with Ped­al Push­ers fab­ric by Lauren & Jessi Jung.   Both pat­terns are avail­able from my shop in PDF and Paper format.

On to some of those quilts and min­i’s I’ve seen being made recently…

First up is this super clev­er ver­sion of the mini by Kirsty from Bon­jour Quilts.  Ser­i­ously amaz­ing don’t you think?!?!   The way Kirsty high­lighted the centre just blows me away.   I keep going back to take anoth­er look at it because I just love it!

Turns out Kirsty and I should have been friends well before now.   Our back­grounds are amaz­ing sim­il­ar and she’s known my hus­band for longer than me!   Kirsty blogs over at Bon­jour Quilts, is such a lovely per­son, is hil­ari­ous and, she has two fant­ast­ic pat­terns of her own.  You should def­in­itely check them out!

Here’s a close up pic­ture of the gor­geous organ­ic quilt­ing Kirsty did.   Again amazing!

My fab­ulous Ins­tagram friend Bel­loqua­city did the pat­tern test­ing for True North using these bright, fun fab­rics.    I love that she made her quilt using the same fab­rics for each block, it makes me want to sew anoth­er one so I can do the same.

Just last week I saw this mini Tara made as a gift for one of the girls in the Aus­trali­an Hand­made Birth­day Club.   It’s pretty darn fab­ulous, just like Tara.    I love the low volume back­ground and scrappy blocks!

Last but not least, Greta has made a twin size ver­sion in Homet­own fab­ric by Sweet­water.    I often say that I live under a rock and appar­ently it was well and truly cov­er­ing my eyes when this fab­ric came out.   I’m so sorry I missed it because its just gor­geous and am so very glad that I was­n’t under that rock when Greta was mak­ing her beau­ti­ful quilt.

Aren’t they all just so great!    If you’ve made a True North quilt or mini don’t for­get to tag me on social media with the hasht­ags #shequilt­salot and #truenorthquilt so I don’t miss see­ing it.