Window Panes Quilt Pattern

I have a new quilt pattern for you today – it’s called Window Panes.

The Window Panes quilt pattern comes with instructions for 5 quilt sizes:

• The baby quilt finishes at approximately 38½” x 50½”
• The throw quilt finishes at approximately 56½” x 66½”
• The twin quilt finishes at approximately 62½” x 86½”
• The queen quilt finishes at approximately 98½” x 98½”
• The king quilt finishes at approximately 110½” x 98½”

The pattern is fat quarter friendly, but you can also make it with jelly rolls (both the windows and the sashing). The instructions are also granular enough to let you adapt it to use scraps, F8s, left over WOF strips…really anything you’ve got, you could probably use it. It’s a great stash reducing quilt pattern!

How much fun would it be to make a scrappy rainbow version? You could go by rows:

Or a more ombré look with the colours changing diagonally across the quilt:

I made the Window Panes version you see here in teal from a motley collection of FQs, F8s, scraps and a few FQ remnants. It’s a great way to get rid of those odd cuts left over from other projects.

Once you cut your window fabrics, the windows come together very quickly courtesy of strip piecing.

I backed this version in a run of Joel Dewberry yardage. It’s been in my cupboard for a couple of years. It has some touches of aqua that tie it in nicely with the quilt top.

For quilting, I went with tried-and-true organic wavy lines with my walking foot (which I talk you through in this this post here). I used a dove grey thread and didn’t mark any lines, I just used the vertical seam lines and wobbled around them.

I then did a second pass and put another wavy line between them all so the quilting looked a bit denser (it still has very nice drape though). Wavy lines are a quick and low stress form of quilting; very hard to mess up!

There were plenty of teal strips left over so I used them to sew up a scrappy binding.

I went with machine binding this quilt using my old faithful zigzag stitch (tutorial here). I used a teal thread although another colour (aqua, pink?) could’ve looked fun with the accents within the fabrics.

Here’s the front binding:

And the back:

This baby quilt is now ready for tons of love (drool, vomit, mouth wiping, diaper malfunctions, dragging, fort-building, etc) and washing. All the things a baby quilt hopes it will receive!

If you’d like to sew a baby, throw, twin, queen or king sized Window Panes quilt then you will find the pattern in the shop now.

You can also find a blog post on another version I sewed with 2 jelly rolls over here.

Happy sewing!

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