Gigi's Quilt: A New Pattern

 Hello, hello!  Today I have a fun new pattern I want to share with you!  It's a sentimental one for me.

It's called Gigi's Quilt and was inspired by one of my grandmother's quits.

This is my grandmother, Delma Baldridge (circa 1960).

She taught me how to quilt; we had a special bond.  She had a Churn Dash quilt that I always admired.  I loved the classic block, the scrappy red and blue color palette, and the Baptist Fan hand quilting.  

Several months ago, I wanted to design a quilt pattern in honor of my grandma.  So I took the Churn Dash block but I flipped it on it's head.  I designed this block with the same construction but different color placement and some 9-Patches added in.  It looks so different don't you think?  (That's the beauty of quilting!  With a few small changes you can completely change a design.)  

I ended up using the above block as a test block and started over with this color palette:

I used blues, purples, dark greens, and browns.  Several of the fabrics are wovens.  

Jen Ostler in Highland, Utah quilted it for me with the Gemma 3 pantograph.

I made the throw-size quilt but the pattern includes instructions for 5 different sizes.

I love the secondary designs this pattern makes.  Stars, Half-Square Triangles, 9-Patches...

everything that makes my quilter's heart happy!

I even made up this red and blue block to try to make one that more closely resembled my grandmother's quilt.  I'm not sure if I'll make a quilt with it?  Or maybe a pillow?  I think it's super cute and the red striped fabric was my grandmother's so I'm loving that!

I can't stop making these Gigi's blocks.  I have another quilt in the works as we speak.

I'd love to hear what you think about this pattern.  What colorway would you make it in?

You can grab the paper pattern HERE or the PDF pattern HERE.

Thank you for stopping by today!  Let me know if you have any questions!