Calliope Quilt {A FREE QUILT PATTERN}

Raise your hand if you saw this pretty picture over on my YouTube page last week. =) If you did, you knew that a new [FREE} quilt pattern was coming today. Tiggsy is the best quality control inspector (even if he sleeps on the job sometimes). =)

Introducing the Calliope quilt along with a free quilt pattern and block tutorial! This quilt pattern first made its’ appearance last year (almost a year exactly) on my Moda Mystery box video. PS…if you’ve never watched that video, it’s a fun one! In that video, I designed a quilt using some the notions I received as well as two fun fat quarter bundles (Sweet Liberty by Brenda Riddle & Mix It Up by Moda Fabrics).

I made two quilt tops in that video…first, a pastel version:

If this quilt looks familiar, it’s because I just shared this quilt back from my quilter a couple weeks ago in another video. David beautifully quilted this quilt for me.

The quilting design on this one is called City of Fountains & I think it is such a lovely quilting design!

David also quilted the other quilt top I made in that video and I shared that finish as well. It’s almost the reverse of the pastel version:

For this version, I used low volumes for the background and then pops of red for the frames.

David used the Boujee quilting design on this quilt.

In preparation for the pattern release, I have made an additional two more Calliope quilt tops. As I mentioned in that video almost a year ago, this quilt top is much simpler to piece than you might think. It’s one of the reasons I was excited to share a tutorial/pattern for this quilt.

The 3rd quilt top I made using this pattern features Moda Bella solids and black/white polka dot fabric. The B/W polka dot fabric comes out this summer in my Coriander Colors line of fabric.

This quilt makes me laugh as, to me, it has such an 80s vibe. I’ve been calling it my “saved by the bell” quilt. =)

Or maybe a fun springtime quilt at the very least!

For the 4th quilt top, I asked my daughter Chloe what fabrics to use. She suggested a pink version. I pulled various pinks from some of my fabric lines and came up with this version (it’s the version you saw at the top of the page):

It turned out so pretty! We have just a couple fat quarter bundles of this “Chloe” version if you’d like to purchase a bundle. BUNDLES HAVE SOLD OUT.

One of the neat things about this quilt top is that it requires 16 fat quarters…no background fabric—just the fat quarters and you are on your way.

These tops come together so quickly…as I mentioned it’s a simple quilt to piece. Calliope finishes at 45″ x 60″ making it a nice throw sized quilt.

It’s also an easy quilt to enlarge by adding extra blocks or borders.

Now, I need to get these quilt tops off to David to quilt up for me! If you’d like to make a Calliope quilt of your own you can download the free PDF quilt pattern below.

Download the Calliope quilt pattern here.

Be sure to watch the Calliope YouTube video to see all of the quilts/quilt tops and for a block tutorial!

You can watch the video here.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful Saturday! Corey