Sunset Strip Pattern Release

Sunset Strip is my newest release! This was a quilt I designed for a challenge when I was an Island Batik ambassador in March 2019. There are (ahem) a few challenge quilts that need to get written up and published into patterns! I've not been as productive in the pattern-writing department this year, just three: this one, and two for magazines.

This pattern was the first design in that year's Design Challenge I was hosting, so it is high time I got it out into the world. It's also the first one I wrote up, graphics and all, in Pages, a word processing app on my MacBook Air. Prior to this I worked in Googledocs, but storage is limited there, so I thought why not learn Pages. It's really not much different than Word and Googledocs, and is actually more user-friendly in many ways.

I had four lovely ladies test the pattern and I am excited to show you their makes! Also I should add that it is on sale all week at the lowest price I've ever released a pattern: $7CA. That's just about half price. ($12 regular)

I originally named the design 'Cheerio' as a double entendre: the English expression for 'see ya', emphasis on the 'o', as well as a nod to the round cereal. However, when I was adding hashtags to the pattern back, I learned that there is a pretty popular Cheerio pattern already out there by Bonnie and Camille and I am not going to try to compete! When I thought about the rich batiks I'd used, one is even named 'Sunset', the name for the quilt came to me, since the blocks are in a strip down the quilt.

There is lots of negative space to free-motion quilt intricate designs, as on the original, 

do straight line motifs, or quilt your favourite all-over, as I did on the baby quilt I recently made for my great-niece born October 15. You can read more about her quilt here. The soft colours here are quite a contrast to the intense colours of the cover quilt.

There are two sizes in the pattern; both have the same number of O's.

The amount of negative space lends itself well to using a print that you love. That is what Rose of somethingrosemade did. Read all about her boomer quilt, (absolutely love the idea, and I have one and didn't even know it!), Karma Khameleon, here.

Tish of @tishnwonderland tests all of the Meadow Mist Designs mystery quilts, and she's tested several of my patterns over the years, most recently Rosebud Garland which is in the current issue of Make Modern (see sidebar). She first checked through the pattern for tech stuff like math, wording, and diagrams that make sense. She also then made time to make the baby quilt.

Michelle in Scotland made a gorgeous version.

I love the pinks and wines of Carol's quilt, at Quilt Schmilt. The timing was perfect: she's made it for a popular blog hop that starts this week: the Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange. Her post is tomorrow.

Remember to pop over to my Etsy shop, SandraJaneQuilts, and check out (or buy, grin) Sunset Strip, on sale until Friday midnight for just $7. No code required.

Aren't they all just wonderful? I can see one in primary colours, tumbling down, or Christmas colours in throw size with a Milky or sherpa backing...

Now I'm off to get started on a third version of Sunset Strip, a commissioned baby quilt. More on it when it's finished!

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