Jaybird Quilts Fussy Cut Shapes

Introducing my newest product, Fussy Cut Shapes! Fussy Cut Shapes make fussy cutting easy. There's 6 shapes in the package & you can watch the YouTube directions for them by following these links:

4 1/2” Half Triangle

4 1/2” Hexagon

2 1/2” Half Triangle

4 1/2” Half Hexagon

2 1/2” Diamond

2 1/2” 60-degree Triangle

The shapes in the 6-piece set have defined seam allowances, crosshairs, and blunt points to create fun & unique fussy cut projects you’ll always treasure!

 

Each shape has a ¼” gray edge to define the seam allowance, which enables you to focus on the interior space of the shape and know exactly what will appear in the finished shape. Most shapes have centered crosshairs to aid in positioning an image within the shape. Each shape also has blunted points for easy piecing alignment.

Fussy Cut Shapes are available now. Ask for them from your favorite local quilt shop or independent online shop.

Video tutorial directions are available now on YouTube. Fussy Cut Shapes PDF Directions are available now here. 

2 ½" Diamond

4 ½" Half Hexagon

2 ½" Half Triangle

4 ½" Hexagon

2 ½" 60-degree Triangle

4 ½" Half Triangle

Here's where you can shop for the Fussy Cut Shapes:

Canada

Purple KATZ Quilting - Alberta (online only)

Craft de Ville - Montreal (online & in-shop)

USA

Clothesline Creations - Indiana (online & in-shop)

From Past to Present Quilt Shop - Ohio (in-shop)

Hummingbird Lane Fabrics - Arizona (online & in-shop)

Bee's Quilt Shop and Studio - Florida (online & in-shop)

Pennington Quilt Works - New Jersey (online & in-shop)

Patched Works - Wisconsin (online & in-shop)

Threaded Lines Quilt Shop - Texas (online & in-shop)

A Quilter's Oasis - Arizona (in-shop)

Fat Quarter Shop - (online only)

Idaho Sewing & Vacuum - Idaho (online & in-shop)

Fabric Sanity - Texas (online & in-shop)

Sew On & Sew North - North Dakota (online & in-shop)

Red Pine Quilt Shop - Minnesota (online & in-shop)

Cotton Patch Quilt Shop - Florida (online & in-shop)

Old Town Quilt Shop - California (online & in-shop)

Quiltzauberei.de - Germany (online & in-shop)

superbuzzy - California  (online & in-shop)

Kimz Sewing and Patchwork Centre - Australia (online & in-shop)

Amelia's Garden - New York (online & in-shop)

Fox & Frog Quilt Shoppe - Ohio (online only)

**Attention shops**: If your shop is carrying Fussy Cut Shapes & you would like to be added to this list, please fill out this form.

We've got some great sew alongs planned to help you put those Fussy Cut Shapes to use right away.

Julie will guide you through using the Jaybird Quilts Fussy Cut Shapes to make a fussy cut Rock Candy table topper like the one shown above. Sign up here for the sew along. 

We'll also be sewing projects from the Alphabet Soup book. Letters, numbers, and projects, oh my! Julie guides you through her approach to making the letters, numbers, & projects from the book Alphabet Soup using the Hex N More & Super Sidekick rulers, and debuting the new Fussy Cut Shapes from Jaybird Quilts! Sign up here for the sew along.

Fussy Cut Shapes are shipping to shops in December and will be available for purchase on January 3, 2023.

© Blog post written by Julie Herman
For more information visit http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/

The Temperature Quilt

Have you ever heard of a Temperature Quilt before? A Temperature Quilt is a visual snapshot of the daily high and low temperatures for a specific location during a specific year. The location & the timeframe is up to you!

I love temperature quilts! I've been working on figuring out how to make one with my rulers & on how to put together a fun sew along for the communal experience of making one with you. I'm so excited to share this new sew along experience with you & I can't wait to see what you make! Enroll here to join us.

The Temperature Quilt is made with the Hex N More & Sidekick ruler (or the Super Sidekick). Templates are also available in the pattern.

Share this image on social media to let everyone know that you're sewing along with us!

The Temperature Quilt can be made in 4 sizes:

Small Lap 74" x 77"

Large Lap 85" x 77"

Queen 96" x 96"

King 110" x 110"

This is one of my columns in progress.

I put together a series of worksheets & resources to help you track your daily high & low temperatures and plot out your fabric selections based on the average temperature ranges for you location.

The Temperature Quilt pattern, worksheets, sew along emails, bonus content, and sew along instructional videos are bundled up in one package that is only available here. Since this is such a unique quilt to make I came up with a unique way to offer it.

Here's where you can shop for Temperature Quilt kits:

Sew On & Sew North: North Dakota  (online & in-shop)

OhSewSally!: New York  (online & in-shop)

Fat Quarter Shop: Texas  (online only)

Chestnut Bay Quilting: New York  (online & in-shop)

Bigfoot Quilts: Washington State  (online & in-shop)

Threaded Lines Quilt Shop: Texas  (online & in-shop)

Graceful Marilyn Quilt Shoppe: Minnesota (online & in-shop)

Bloom Fabric, Art & Retreat: New York (online & in-shop)

**Attention shops**: If your shop is offering Temperature Quilt kits & you would like to be added to this list, please fill out this form.

And there's so many great opportunities for putting your own spin on the fabric selections to make a temperature quilt this is all your own! Enroll here to join us for the sew along & get the pattern.

© Blog post written by Julie Herman
For more information visit http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/

Delight Sew Along - Let's Get Fussy Cutting!

We've got a new sew along coming up! In anticipation of the arrival of Tula Pink's Moon Garden fabric, Julie will teach you how to fussy cut with your Hex N More ruler to make your own fascinating Delight quilt.

 

The sew along will cover fabric selection, fussy cutting with the Hex N More ruler, quilt top layout, then sewing the blocks & quilt top. You can sign up for it here.

Delight is made with the Hex N More ruler. I've got some great tips & tricks for fussy cutting with the Hex N More ruler that I can't wait to share with you!

The links to the participating shops below will take you to their curated kits or the pattern to purchase to participate. We will continue to add shops to this list, so be sure to refresh your browser to see any new shops that many have been added to the list:

Australia

Fabric Pixie - online only

Canada

Purple Katz Quilting - Alberta & online

Craft de Ville - Montreal & online

United States

Stitch Fabric Company  - Online Only

Fabric Sanity - Online only

Bigfoot Quilts - Washington & online

Perfectly Pink Quilt Studio - Elmore, Ohio

Woodside Quilting - Iowa & online

Cherry Berry Quilts - Bakersfield, California

Idaho Sewing & Vacuum - Idaho & online

Sew On & Sew North - North Dakota & online

**ATTENTION SHOPS** If you'd like us to add a link to your shop’s kits or pattern, please fill out this form.

Sign up here to receive the sew along emails. Emails will have the links to the video tutorials as they’re available, giveaways and prizes, and discounts to quilt shops exclusively for sew along participants.

Sew along schedule:

November 4: YouTube Live Q&A

Video 1, November 8: Fabric Selection 

Video 2, November 11: Fussy Cutting with the Hex N More Ruler

Video 3, November 15: Quilt Top Layout

Video 4, November 18: Sewing Blocks & the Quilt Top

If the Moon Garden fabric isn't your style, or you're saving your Moon Garden for another project, feel free to use any fabric of your choice to make your Delight quilt. Delight is a great design for featuring large-scale prints.

Share this image on social media to let everyone know that you're sewing along with us!

Sign up here to receive the sew along emails, exclusive quilt shop discount codes, & giveaways. We're looking forward to sewing with you soon!

© Blog post written by Julie Herman
For more information visit http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/

JOY Table Runner Sew Along

We're hosting an Alphabet Soup sew along in early 2023, and as a warm up for it we're hosting the JOY Table Runner Sew Along in October 2022. 

 

Spruce up the holiday tablescape with a JOY table runner from the Alphabet Soup book. I will guide you through making this table runner in preparation for the upcoming holiday season & to get ready for the 2023 Alphabet Soup Sew Along! Sign up here to join us!

JOY Table Runner made by Julie Kentner 

with Nicholas fabric by J Weckler Frisch for Riley Blake Designs.

Alphabet Soup blocks and projects are made with the Hex N More & Super Sidekick rulers. 

 

The Alphabet Soup book is NOT required for the JOY table runner sew along. This is your opportunity to test drive the letter patterns before buying the book. JOY Sew Along Worksheets are provided to you in the sew along Welcome email along with deals & discounts from participating quilt shops exclusively for sew along participants! Sign up here to receive the sew along emails.

 

Cutting templates are not provided in the worksheets. You will need the rulers to make the table runner following the sew along worksheets & video tutorials.

 

The book will be required for the 2023 Alphabet Soup Sew Along.

JOY Table Runners by the San Diego Modern Quilt Guild 

Sign up here to receive the sew along emails. Emails will have the links to the video tutorials as they’re available, table runner directions, giveaways and prizes, and discounts to quilt shops exclusively for sew along participants.

Sew along schedule:

October 7: YouTube LIVE Q&A

Video 1, October 11: Letter J 

Video 2, October 14: Letter O

Video 3, October 18: Letter Y

Video 4, October 21: Sew runner & more LIVE on YouTube

JOY Table Runner Kits from Clothesline Creations

The links to the participating shops below will take you to their curated kits or the book to purchase to participate. We will continue to add shops to this list, so be sure to refresh your browser to see any new shops that many have been added to the list:

Australia

Fabric Pixie

Canada

Watergirl Quilt Co.

Purple KATZ Quilting

Netherlands

Quiltboutique

United States

Indiana: Clothesline Creations

Online: Coneflower Quilt Co

Maryland: Material Girls Quilt Boutique

Texas: Threaded Lines Quilt Shop

North Dakota: Sew On & Sew North

Ohio: Perfectly Pink Quilt Studio

California: Old Town Quilt Shop

Texas: Sew Special Quilts, Katy

**ATTENTION SHOPS** If you'd like us to add a link to your shop’s kits or book, please fill out this form.

JOY Table Runners by the San Diego Modern Quilt Guild 

Share this image on social media to let everyone know that you're sewing along with us!

Sign up here to receive the sew along emails for access to the table runner directions, exclusive quilt shop discount codes, & giveaways. We're looking forward to sewing with you soon!

© Blog post written by Julie Herman
For more information visit http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/

Sweet Tooth featuring Tiny Beasts by Tula Pink

Have you been looking for quilt patterns to put your Tiny Beasts fabric to work? 

We love the rich jewel tones of Tiny Beasts in the Sweet Tooth quilt! 

Sweet Tooth is a twin size quilt that features 12 unique quilt blocks, each made twice, and with creative fabric placement your quilt will appear to have 24 different quilt blocks. Bonus directions are included in the pattern to make a Queen size quilt top.

Sweet Tooth is made with the Hex N More and Super Sidekick rulers and no pesky Y seams!

The rulers come with full color instructions, including cutting and piecing diagrams, just like all Jaybird Quilts books & patterns. All of the pieces are rotary cut from strips.  

Here’s a video tutorial on how to use the Hex N More ruler:

Here’s a video tutorial on how to use the Super Sidekick ruler:

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Feature Fabrics 

You can purchase these precut design rolls to acquire all of the strips used in this quilt, & have plenty of extra strips on hand to make coordinating projects to go with your Sweet Tooth quilt: 

Tiny Beasts Design Roll: FB4DRTP.BEAST 

Tula’s True Colors Design Roll: FB4DRTP.TULATRUE

Background Fabrics

Main Background Fabric, 4 3/8 Yards: Diva, CSFSESS.DIVAX 

Accent Background Fabric, 1 1/4 Yards: Hexy Rainbow - Starling, PWTP151.STARLING

 Block 1 Fabrics

Looking to find which fabrics are in each quilt block & the fabrics needed to make your own Tiny Beasts Sweet Tooth quilt? Sign up here to get the full details.

 
© Blog post written by Julie Herman
For more information visit http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/

Toes in the Sand: Block 4

Welcome back to the Toes in the Sand Block of the Month sew along! 
Did you want to receive this info in your email once a month? We'll email on the first Tuesday of each month with the names of the fabrics used in the blocks for that month, and if you're making the Queen size quilt, how many of each block to make for your quilt top. Sign up to receive the emails here.

The fabrics above correspond to the block fabrics at the top of page 12 in the pattern book. You'll need a fat eighth of each fabric for the Twin size quilt. 

If you're making a Queen size quilt, make 2 of the purple blocks and 3 of the lime green blocks for the queen quilt top.  To make the blocks for a Queen quilt top, you may want a half yard of the Lucy - Pineapple, then you'll need fat quarters of the rest of each fabric.

Julie will sew 1 block a month live in the Jaybird Quilts Sew Alongs Facebook group on the first Tuesday of each month in 2022. The live videos will be saved so group members can watch replays of it. The live videos will not be made public to view on other platforms, they will be exclusive to the Facebook group.

If you have an original version of the pattern book released in 2012 (top image), you can receive a PDF of the pattern updates that are a part of the 10th Anniversary edition (bottom image) here.

Thanks for sewing along with us this year!

© Blog post written by Julie Herman
For more information visit http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/