Today I'm sharing an oh-so-sweet Sweet Caroline II quilt in modern gray and yellow!
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So Many Sizes!
Sweet Caroline II includes 4 sizes - Throw, Twin, Queen, and King. My patterns include as many sizes as possible. I do love spoiling you!
This quilt is the Twin size.
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Oh Those Fabrics!
This Sweet Caroline II quilt is made with just five fabrics. Three yellows (all from an older V and Co fabric collection), white, and a mottled gray. The pattern tells you where to place the fabrics so the yellows end up in the middle of the patchwork blocks.
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It's Entirely Strip Pieced - Of Course!
A trademark feature in my patterns is strip piecing whenever possible. Life is about making more quilts, so let's make them quicker! You will not be sewing individual squares together; you'll be sewing strip sets, sub-cutting them, and then sewing them together to make blocks. It's oh-so-fun and quick!
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Longarm Quilting
The quilting design is Woven Wind, a digital design, quilted on my Handi Quilter Fusion with ProStitcher in gray thread. I love the old-fashioned look of this design that takes old-fashioned, modern quilts to a whole 'nother level! Is that an oxymoron?
This quilt top was made by Kare and quilted and bound by me.
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Sweet Caroline and Sweet Caroline II
You may have noticed that I also have a Sweet Caroline quilt pattern, in addition to Sweet Caroline II. Hmm, why is that? I'm glad you asked! Sweet Caroline is made with a variety of medium and dark prints, and Sweet Caroline II is made with just five fabrics. The first pattern didn't make sense when using only five fabrics, so a new pattern had to be written for it to make sense.
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