Jewel Finish

     A few years ago, I put together a few quilt patterns, printed them and sold them at our local fabric shop.  The fabric shop closed so I decided to start a little home business and I sell fabric out of my home. I stock 10 inch squares, and people constantly ask what they can do with them.  My 2.5 inch strips sell like hotcakes but the 10 inch squares do not.  I started playing with pattern ideas for 10 inch squares because I like not being confined to 2.5 inch strips.  I put this quilt together using Kaffe Fassett's Collective Classics-Peacock 10 inch square collection.  I decided to make a pattern for it and publish it in PDF format.  So,  I'm finished with my first PDF published pattern.  The pattern is for the Jewel Quilt and you can find the pattern HERE.  

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Jewel Top

Here are a couple of photos of the progress on my Jewel quilt top.  

Isn't it hard to find just the right placement for a scrappy quilt.  I also need a design wall.

The lighting inside is much different than the outside lighting.

Here is the borderless top.  I'm still thinking about the border.  It will most likely be a strip of the background fabric.  I think 'Jewel' is the perfect name for this quilt.  Now, I am going to attempt to write a publishable pattern for this.  Thank you to Lorna at Sew Fresh Quilts for giving me tips and sharing a link to Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs for pattern publishing.  Stay tuned!

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