The Wave Hello Pattern
It takes a lot of work to write a quilt pattern. And build a business and a website to sell a quilt pattern. None of it is really that difficult (it’s also not that easy), but the sheer volume of stuff to do is exhausting. (Good thing I’m otherwise unemployed at the moment….)
So as I introduce my website and business into the world today, I also want to introduce my first pattern. It is the Wave Hello Quilt pattern, which you can get for free by signing up for my email list. The name comes from both the wave-like motion of the colorful strips, and because the pattern serves as my introduction to the world of modern pattern design. Hello!
This is a pattern I’ve been toying with for a while. I made the first version of it in 2020, when I wanted to showcase a roll of 2 ½” batik strips that I fell in love with and bought on a whim (they were on sale, too!). I thought it was a good attempt, but there were some aspects about it I wanted to change. First, I thought the ratio of color-to-background was too low. Second, because the increase/decrease between adjacent color strips was always the same, the wave-shapes actually look more like peak-shapes.
For that first version, I used yardage as the background, but I wanted to develop the pattern so that it can be made using only 2 ½” precut strips, for the hoarder of precuts or the infinitely lazy quilter, whichever you are. I also adjusted the pattern so that there was more color and a smoother wave shape formed by the strips. Additionally, it was worked so that there would be minimum measuring and cutting of strips; many of the strips are used as WOF strips! Thus, I present to you, the Wave Hello Quilt. The pattern also includes instructions for cutting the background strips from yardage if you prefer. It might sound like extra work, but if you have a fancy strip cutting ruler (I have the Stripology Squared ruler), cutting goes by very quickly.
The cover version of my quilt is made using Kona Cotton. The color strips are from the Sugar Coated color palette and the background is the color Dove. But the pattern can work with so many different colorways! It’s a great pattern to showcase bold prints or playful gradients. A two-color version would look very sharp. This pattern would also work well with scraps such as the long, skinny strips you have leftover from cutting yardage for other patterns. Or the trimmings of backing fabric that come from squaring up a quilt right before binding.
I’m excited to see what creations you make from this pattern. It’s the first pattern I released, so it will forever be near and dear to my heart. Wave Hello back to me by sharing photos of your interpretations on social media using the #WaveHelloQuilt and #SweetPixelQuilts hashtags! If you haven’t gotten your copy of the pattern yet, it’s as easy as signing up for my email list.
