The Iris Quilt in Tula Pink
Thank you all so much for your support with the Iris Quilt! I have been working on this pattern throughout the quarantine and I really wanted a HAPPY quilt for the cover. I was so excited to see Tula Pink's new True Colors collection and I knew it would be perfect.
This pattern took me several months to design because I had a lot of things I wanted to accomplish with one project. I wanted it to be quick, fabric efficient, lots of fun, useful for lots of different precuts, scrap friendly, etc. It took me a while to figure it all out, but I am so happy with the result.
One concern that I had when I started designing the pattern was that it would take a long time to make. Compared to my Tessa pattern, which is a similar design with a lot fewer seams, it seemed like it would be very time consuming. But since the pattern is strip pieced, it was actually much faster than I expected. Even the scrap version I made came together quickly. I love quilting, but I don't love projects that are super time intensive so this was important to me!
Another concern was making sure it was fabric efficient. I wanted the pattern to be jelly roll friendly, but it's not very practical to have a jelly roll friendly quilt that uses a jelly roll plus a few strips or 1.5 jelly rolls. Do you want to know how many jelly roll strips the lap size uses? Thirty-nine (a normal jelly roll is 40 strips). The twin size uses just under 2 jelly rolls and the baby size uses about 1/2 of a jelly roll. I couldn't have asked for the math to turn out better.
The scrap option for the pattern is great because it uses up leftover binding strips really nicely. I always have a giant pile of those sitting around. I still need to quilt the scrap version that I made but I will be sharing it soon.
The Iris Quilt is available as either a PDF or paper pattern. I hope you really enjoy this pattern - it has been such a passion project for me and I can't wait to see what you make!
Ruth Powers on
I bought this pattern last year and love the look, but it has cutting directions and no sewing instructions. I’m having trouble getting it together! Any help out there?
Paula Napier on
Wanting to make this a queen size in this does the pattern tell how much fabric to buy beautiful quilt like to make my niece one in blues
Sharee on
I LOVE your fabric choices! What jelly roll(s) did you use? 😍 this is GORGEOUS! My daughters name is Iris and I’ve been wanting to make her a quilt and the fact that this quilt is called Iris is perfect!