Fernweh Quilt Pattern Release

Today is Fernweh quilt pattern release day!!

I hope you like enormous star blocks, because that’s what Fernweh is ALL ABOUT!

Let’s dig in!

Fernweh Quilt

Fernweh Quilt comes in four sizes: Pillow size 24″, Throw 72″x72″, Twin 72″x96″ and queen/king 96″x96″.

This is a beginner quilt pattern! The only skills used are straight line sewing and snowballs. Video tutorial is included for the snowballs.

Links from the video

• Get the Fernweh quilt pattern
• View Fernweh quilt kit page
• Snowball tutorial
• See more version of Fernweh quilt on Instagram
• See all of my Fernweh quilts
• Get on my email list to get access to the free pattern library
• My sewing machine is a Juki 2000
• I quilt on a sit down Bernina Q20
• My sewing cabinet is from Arrow Sewing, find it here. The cutting table is located here. Use my coupon code: MELANIE20 for 20% off any purchase.
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A bit about the pattern

I am endlessly fascinated with star quilt blocks. You could easily get lost in a rabbit hole of all the different ways to put them together. The Fernweh pattern (pronounced FIEN-VEE, the German word for wanderlust) is a star within a star block. The inner portion is the ever-familiar sawtooth star, while the outer portion looks as if it’s bursting to life. 

I couldn’t settle on a style while designing Fernweh. So instead, I’ve created the pattern in two different styles of quilts. There’s the style pictured on the cover (version 1), and a reversed style that you’ll see within the pattern. 

Because the two patterns are not a “true” reversal of foreground and background, I’ve written them as two separate patterns, both comprising the Fernweh pattern. Simply choose which version you’d like to make and skip to that section.

• Skill Level: Beginner
• Skills Used: Snowballs
• Speed: Faster make
• Sizes: 24″x24″ pillow, 72″x72″ throw, 72″x96″ twin/full, 96″x96″ queen/king
• 15 illustrated pages.
• Pattern includes a video tutorial for snowballs
• Pattern has lots of helpful links included (including methods for basting, quilting and binding).
• Pattern includes “scrappy backing guide”
• Use #FernwehQuilt for sharing on Instagram.
• Kit page is available here.

We have bundles!

We have quite a few kits curated up for Fernweh right now. Find them all here!

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Here’s a look at my testers work…

The quilts below were made by the following group of quilters: