Bar Code tester quilts

Bar Code is a super versatile quilt pattern with almost unlimited options for colours and fabrics.

Bar Code is a block based pattern with a nod to the traditional Rail Fence that will help you flex your strip-piecing muscles. Or learn a new skill if you've never strip-pieced before. It comes with 4 sizes and 3 colour options and is suited for advanced, or adventurous, beginners.

I got to work with some fabulous testers again to make this pattern come to life. Here are their interpretations of the Bar Code quilt pattern.

Bar Code Quilt pattern by Monika Henry of Penny Spool Quilts - tester quilt by Heather Quinn in purple, white and blue

Rectangular throw by Heather

Bar Code sizes

Bar Code comes with instructions for 4 quilt sizes:

  • Pillow or Wallhanging
  • Baby
  • Square Throw
  • Rectangular Throw

Since this is a block based quilt, it's also very easy to just add more blocks to make the quilt (almost) any size you like.

Bar Code Quilt pattern by Monika Henry of Penny Spool Quilts - tester quilt by Viky Kuhn in white with multicoloured stripes

Rectangular throw by Viky

Colour options

Bar Code includes instructions for three colour versions, but the options are almost endless:

  • A six-colour option, shown below (Viky's quilt is a variation of that option)
  • A two-tone option with a single colour for all the bars (see Heather's slightly "rogue" version of this above, and Stacey's at the end of the post)
  • And a scrappy version perfect for raiding your scrap bins or your stash (Mercedes' quilt below)

 Bar Code Quilt pattern by Monika Henry of Penny Spool Quilts - tester quilt by Kristen Saffle with multicoloured stripes on purple

Rectangular throw by Kristen

 Bar Code quilt pattern by Penny Spool Quilts - tester quilt by Mercedes in scrappy with white background

Rectangular throw by Mercedes

Bar Code quilt pattern by Penny Spool Quilts - tester quilt by Stacey in mint and white

Baby quilt by Stacey

I hope these quilts have inspired you for your own versions. Bar Code is available in the pattern shop.

https://www.pennyspoolquilts.com/products/bar-code-quilt-pattern-pdf

Want to see more Bar Code quilts? Check out these blog posts:

Bar Code Square Throw

Bar Code Variations

Bar Code Pillow (and the rest of the pillow series)

And join the Bar Code quilt along starting October 18th, 2021

 

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