A Scrappy, Rainbow Luna Quilt

A Scrappy, Rainbow Luna Quilt

One advantage of writing jelly roll patterns is that these patterns lend themselves very nicely to scrap quilts. You end up with lots of small-ish leftover pieces — whether from binding strips, jelly rolls, or just scraps from larger cuts of fabric — so I have been loving that I can make a scrappy rainbow quilt for most of these patterns. The Luna Quilt pattern is perfect for scraps.


A Scrappy Rainbow Luna Quilt - Kitchen Table Quilting


My scrap bins overfloweth (shocking, I know) so I had lots of colors on hand when starting this quilt. I decided to go rainbow-y and made an effort not to re-use any of the color fabrics (and I also tried to just use prints, no solids). I tried for variety with the background fabric but they aren't all unique and about half of them are solids.


A Scrappy Rainbow Luna Quilt - Kitchen Table Quilting


This was a super fun challenge that didn't end up being all that challenging because I had lots of scraps that were this size. There are some old favorites in here, some newer prints, and lots in between. 


A Scrappy Rainbow Luna Quilt - Kitchen Table Quilting


When making rainbow quilts, I always struggle the most with the green section because I don't use green as often in my quilts so that was definitely the trickiest part, but it all worked out. 


A Scrappy Rainbow Luna Quilt - Kitchen Table Quilting


If you would like to make your own rainbow version of the quilt, this is the number of blocks that I made for each color. The pattern gives directions for making a single block so this will help you figure out how many pieces of each color you will need.

Pink - 1 block

Orange - 2 blocks

Yellow - 3 blocks

Green/Yellow - 4 blocks

Green - 5 blocks

Blue/Green - 5 blocks

Blue - 4 blocks

Purple/Blue - 3 blocks

Purple - 2 blocks

Red/Purple - 1 block


A Scrappy Rainbow Luna Quilt - Kitchen Table Quilting


You could also shift your colors a little bit if you wanted. I ended up with a lot of cool colors (notice that my quilt has lots of blues and purples) because those are the scraps I had on hand, but you could make blocks that are pink/orange or yellow/orange if you wanted to have more of the warmer colors. 


The backing fabric is Kimberly Kight's Strawberries. I have been hoarding this print, but now that she has released a whole Strawberry & Friends collection, it felt safe to use it.


A Scrappy Rainbow Luna Quilt - Kitchen Table Quilting


The binding is a fabric I have had in my stash for a long time — I'm pretty sure it's from an older Bonnie & Camille collection. Since so many of the blocks in my quilt are cooler colors, I decided a warmer color for the binding would help balance things out + I liked how it looked with the backing fabric.


A Scrappy Rainbow Luna Quilt - Kitchen Table Quilting


You can pick up your own copy of the Luna Quilt Pattern in my shop as either a PDF or paper pattern.


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