Ray Quilt (free pattern from CF!)

Ray Quilt (free pattern from CF!)

Last month, one of my favorite fabric & quilt designers, Carolyn Friedlander, published a free pattern and announced a Ray Quilt along.  I enjoyed looking at what she had made and while I was considering her choices, I started thinking about additional color and pattern placements. Before I knew it, I had printed a copy of her pattern (it’s free!) and was piling up my fabric choices!

photo of Carolyn Friedlander's quilts
Image of Carolyn's Ray Quilts

The Ray Quilt is basically ONE HUGE log cabin block.  Those “logs” are 4.5” wide! The jumping-off point for my quilt is two colorways of a dinosaur print from designer Lizzy House.

photo of finished quilt top with child looking at it
*Finished Quilt Top*

My quilt is approximately 50" x 54" which is neither of the sizes in Carolyn's excellent free pattern, but is the perfect size for my toddler and also where I ran out of the red dinosaurs fabric! 

photo of Ray Quilt
*Finished Quilt*

I chose to quilt mine in a grid of machine stitches.

photo of quilting on Rossie's Ray quilt
*close up view of grid quilting*

I love how it all turned out and encourage you to try Carolyn's Ray Quilt pattern, too!

photo of finished quilt
*my quilt*
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