Be My Neighbor Quilt and Pattern

Hello!  Welcome to my neighborhood.  This is the Be My Neighbor quilt.  It's one of my newest patterns, available now in the Curlicue Creations Etsy shop and select quilt shops around the U.S.A.

This is one of the five quilts I made to support my signature fabric collection, Sunlit Garden.  This fabric is so bright and pretty!  I love the reds, blues, greens, and white and the pretty flower designs by Jerry Khiev.  It's an Island Batik (Lumin Fabrics) collection.

I've always loved house quilts and I've made a few of them over the years.  Isn't this blue house block lovely?  Do you see how it uses four different blue fabrics from the Sunlit Garden collection?

Here are some of the blocks up on my design wall as I was putting the quilt top together.  It was fun to design and stitch the red, green, blue, and rainbow house blocks.

Quilting the Be My Neighbor quilt was a joy as well.  It is fun for me to make quilts with different colors in the blocks.  I quilted a loopy meander in an allover design with a light green thread.

Be My Neighbor

Quilt Stats:

Quilt Size:  52" x 66"

Fabric:  Sunlit Garden by Island Batik (Lumin Fabrics)

Batting:  Hobbs Cotton

Thread:  Aurifil

Needles:  Schmetz

Designed in EQ8

The Be My Neighbor pattern is available in select quilt shops across the USA.  It can also be purchased in the Curlicue Creations Etsy Shop as either a PDF instant download pattern (so you can start sewing right away!) or a paper pattern (I will send it to you via snail mail).

Click here to purchase a PDF instant download Be My Neighbor pattern.

Click here to purchase a paper pattern for the Be My Neighbor quilt.

If you sew a Be My Neighbor quilt, please share a pic with me on Instagram @curlicuecreations.  

I would love to see your quilt!

Be Creative ~ Sew Something Beautiful Today.

Jennifer Thomas

Curlicue Creations

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The Making of Wonky Little Houses

This is the Wonky Little Houses quilt. I made this quilt using Carrie Bloomston's pattern from the October 2018 Quilty Box.

 Normally, I take a lot of pictures when I'm making a quilt.  I must have been pressed for time, because this is the first photo I have!  So this post will be more like the quilting of Wonky Little Houses.  As you can see, I basted with safety pins.  This is how I prep quilts when I'm planning on quilting them on my Elna Quilter's Dream.

 I began my quilting on this yellow door of the center house.  I did simple straight vertical line quilting in matching thread.

 I did horizontal straight line quilting on the houses exterior walls to simulate siding, and continued the horizontal straight lines onto the rooftops.  

 I had a little fun quilting off center concentric circles around the sun and did some echos of the bumpy green tree in the sky.

 After quilting, I added some lace trim to the rooftops to give the houses a gingerbread look. Sew pretty!

 Each door received a button door knob.  

And everyone lived happily ever after.  The end.
You can read more about this quilt here:  Whimsical and Wonky Featuring Wonky Little Houses

Be Creative ~ Sew Something Beautiful Today.

Jennifer Thomas

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