Friday, May 22, 2015

Picnic Blanket with BugaPalooza Fabric



It's finished! If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you've probably seen some glimpses at the Bugapalooza Picnic Blanket I have been working on. What's a picnic blanket? It's a quilt you take on picnics, or to the beach, but I know you already know that part. :)


Some folks like to use a waterproof backing, or a twill or canvas backing to make the blanket heavier. I decided to keep mine all cotton, but I choose a heavier and stiffer batting to help weigh it down a little more. Before you ask, I have no idea what kind of batting it was, it was in my studio from another project and it wasn't labeled, I just liked the weight and went with it.



Here's how I pieced the quilt top. I made this quilt half yard friendly. I used eight different half yard cuts of BugaPalooza fabric to cut the inner blocks. The inner blocks are 9" square and there are 36 of them sewn together, six rows of six.


The cream dot borders are 4.5" in width. To cut these the most efficient way I could, I cut a one yard piece of fabric in to 1/8 yards strips and then sewed two strips together. The seam of the strip lines up with the middle seam of the 36 blocks.

Then that nice big border(almost 10" wide) was added to all sides. It took me 2.5 yards of border fabric. There are four borders to one width of fabric. Two opposite sides were sewn on and trimmed and then the two remaining border pieces were sewn on. My quilt top was finished, it went together super fast.



For quilting I went with my favorite superior thread. King Tut #934 Nile Delta It's yellows and lime green. It blends nicely with all of the colors, I used it on a lot of my quilts.

I did a little meandering through the center and then did some free motion scallops to mimic the scallops on the fabric border. When it came to quilting the border, I loosely went around the flowers and insects.



Last was sewing on the binding. It's Memorial Day weekend, so I will definitely be putting this picnic blanket to use!

And if you want to make one yourself, enjoy free shipping all weekend in my web store. Enter the coupon code FREESHIP. (US orders only, expires Monday May 25th at midnight)

Here's the breakdown for cutting fabric again:
36 squares measuring 9" x 9"
4 Cream Dot Strips measuring 4.5" x 60"
4 Border pieces measuring 90" in length


Have a great day,


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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

The New Jennifer Jangles


Hey, Hey, My new website is up and running. I've been giving it a test run over the past few weeks and it's seems to be working just fine. The old site is going to disappear in a few days so now is the time to re-bookmark to this one just to be sure you can find me.

You might want to head over because there a little peek at something that will be coming in September....

Have a great day,

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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Moving Sale!


There's a new Jennifer Jangles website on it's way. If you tried to stop by last weekend, you might have noticed I was having problems, sorry about that. I have been working non stop this week on my new one and if all goes well it will launch Sunday evening. In the meantime, I am having a moving sale. Do you know how long it takes to move all of those products over to a new site? I'm not looking forward to it and maybe you can help make my job a little easier.


A sale is in order, I have marked lots of things down in the shop, most of those things are 50% off! The fewer of an item I had, the more it got marked down. 

Plus, just because enter the coupon 10OFF and receive and additional 10% off everything in the shop

Have a great day,








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