Patchwork Plaid: A Free Christmas Quilt Tutorial

NEW free tutorial! 🎉🎉 Introducing a simple new quilt I have been working on called Patchwork Plaid. 😍

Over the past 3+ months, I have been working with SO many different Christmas fabrics while curating, cutting, and assembling a few hundred Happy Christmas quilt kits. It has been SO much work but also SO much fun! I put around 100 different fabrics in my Happy Christmas kits because I LOVE scrappy quilts and I want the people who buy my kits to get that same scrappy goodness. So after working with all of those fabrics, I really wanted to make a scrappy patchwork quilt of my own, and Patchwork Plaid was born.

The whole quilt is made from 5" squares, so it's super fast and easy. The red, pink, green, and aqua squares line up into stripes that cross over a scrappy low volume background, and that's what makes the plaid. No fancy piecing at all!

What you'll need: 238 5" squares: 120 low volume, 36 green, 30 pink, 28 red, and 24 aqua. The finished quilt is about 63" x 76½", a nice big throw for the couch.

My tip: You are more than welcome to sew it together row by row, but it goes a little faster if you build it in units. Sew your low volume squares into four patches first, then add the red and pink squares in pairs, and the rows come together quickly. The PDF walks you through every unit with diagrams.

I backed mine with a cozy minky so it looks extra puffy, and my friend Debbie (@hobblecreekquilting) quilted it with clamshells. I love how it turned out!

I also wrote this up as a full tutorial over on my friend Amy Smart's blog, Diary of a Quilter. Thank you, Amy! 🙌

Download the free Patchwork Plaid PDF here and get started today. It's a quick one, so you still have plenty of time to get it done before Christmas! 🎄

If you make one, tag me @makervalley so I can see it! 😍

Happy sewing, my quilty friends!

🩵 Holly