Friendship Bracelet Quilt – A Quilt Journey Quilt

friendship bracelet quilt

I finally got to do a little deadline – less sewing.  It’s been a while, let me tell you.  I pulled out the quilt for my friend Cara, meamom, who is part of a traveling quilt group I’m in, #quiltjourney.  It’s been a while since I’ve worked on one of these quilts for all number of reasons.  But I finally got a chance.

friendship bracelet quilt
Cara’s Vision for the quilt
Friendship bracelet quilt
My Fabric Pull

Cara gave us permission to make a row that we thought represented ourselves and was roughly in a particular color scheme. I added a bit of blue to the color scheme because that is SO me.  And I went with the polka dot idea and ran with it.  I do love polka dots. Then the decision for the pattern.  I was immediately drawn to an idea of herringbone patterns but with a color repeat like I made.  It was A LOT like make a log cabin block and I love making those.  So this was really fun for me.  Plus, remember…POLKA DOTS!  How can you not smile when you are working with polka dots?!

Friendship bracelet quilt
Main Body of the Row
Friendship bracelet quilt
Paper Piecing the Bracelet Ends

Each bracelet requires a large center design to the row and then the little woven ends of the bracelet along with a border. So this was completed in sections just like that.  I made the center, then paper pieced the ends, and finally added in all my border pieces for a 60″ x 18″ row.    And I’m kind of in love with it.

friendship bracelet quilt

friendship bracelet quilt

friendship bracelet quilt

friendship bracelet quilt

Plus I think it is already a nice blend of the other rows.  There will be three or four more rows added before we piece it together.  I can’t wait to see what everyone else makes and how all of our different rows look in one quilt.  It’s such a great bee quilt idea!!

friendship bracelet quilt

And now it’s off to the next person who will add another row that I know that will be radically different from mine because I know she has a different favorite palette from mine.  Hers I’m predicting will include soft greens and pinks…and tone my row down again.

8 thoughts on “Friendship Bracelet Quilt – A Quilt Journey Quilt”

  1. What a great idea, and I do love the polka dots!! I have some of that grey with the circle around the dot: LOVE that one!! 🙂 Will you be making one for you to keep? You should: it's a really great set of patterns!! Hugs, H in Healdsburg

  2. Hi!
    Thanks so much for sharing these details! I have been on the hunt for this pattern but haven’t been able to find it anywhere. Any chance you’re able to point me in the direction of where I might find it? Many thanks 🙂

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