Creating Memories with the Parade Days Quilt Pattern
Our vintage-inspired Parade Days Quilt Pattern is reminiscent of wonderful days spent watching parades. 🌟 When you would pack everything up from baby dolls, to money for food and rides, to a well-loved quilt for relaxing on and savoring the day. Being able to see cousins and friends and spend the day together was the best!
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Savor the Moment
The inspiration for Parade Days is to savor the moment wherever you are. ❤️ You may be celebrating a new baby, welcoming a loved one home, or simply making a gift for yourself or a friend, this sweet quilt pattern with the “parade of stars” is perfect for any occasion. So whether you have a child or are a child-at-heart, this quilt pattern is beautiful & easy to make and 5 sizes are included.
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Shown here in beautiful fabrics from Sweet Liberty by Brenda Riddle this quilt would be gorgeous in any vintage-style Patriotic fabrics, or make it with rich Patriotic colors for a beautiful bed quilt. Change it up and make it in reds & greens for a Christmas quilt, or whatever you like. Simply pick 4 fabrics and a background fabric.
You may also like our Stars & Stripes Celebration Quilt Pattern shown in Patriotic prints!
How I Quilted Parade Days
I started quilting from the center out with my walking foot and did simple outline quilting for the blocks. I really wanted those stars to pop. Then I decided to use these 2 new loop quilt stencils for the borders and I love how the quilting turned out, they both look so perfect for this quilt!
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Free-Motion Quilting
For the Inner Borders, I used this 3″ Filigree Stencil (also sold here) and marked the design in one direction, then flipped it around and marked it going in the other direction to make a wider design. (Did you know you can do that? 😉) I put my free-motion foot attachment on my machine, lowered the feed dogs and started quilting some pretty little loops.
For the Outer Border, I used this 3″ Loop Stencil (also sold here) that coordinates with the smaller filigree loop perfectly. Using these quilt stencils made it so easy to get a beautiful design!
Quilting Tip – When marking stencil designs for borders, mark your corners first then blend the design over the length of your quilt border.
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Quilt Pattern Details
- HIGH-QUALITY & EASY to Follow Step-by-Step Instructions including color diagrams and helpful quilting tips.
- FINISHED QUILT MEASUREMENTS – (All Sizes Included)
- Baby – 42″ x 42″
- Crib – 46″ x 46″
- Throw – 60″ x 60″
- Twin – 74″ x 74″
- Queen – 88″ x 88″
- QUILTING LEVEL – EASY – Confident Beginner.
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(Physical copies available in the MCD shop.)