Meet Tami Jones: Little Ladies, Her First Fabric Collection for Andover
⚡ Quick Answer: Little Ladies is Tami Jones's first-ever fabric collection — designed for Andover Fabrics and now available at Missouri Star. It's a sweet, pastel garden print family (lady bugs, hearts, gingham, polka dots, and flowers) in 100% cotton, available as 2½" strips, 5" squares, 10" squares, a fat quarter bundle, panels, yardage, and 108" wide backing. Tami is the maker behind Hometown Quilt Company, an instructor at both the 2025 and 2026 Missouri Star Academies, and the co-designer of our Holiday Hat Trick appliqué template set.
If you've watched any of Tami's tutorials, you already that she's an absolute delight: warm, funny, honest about the parts of sewing that go sideways, and completely unbothered by imperfection. That's a rare combination, and it's exactly what makes her first collection such a treat!
Little Ladies by Tami Jones for Andover Fabrics is here, and we've got the whole spread — precuts, panels, yardage, and wide backing. Here's a look at the collection, the Tami Jones projects already living on our site, and where to find everything else she's made with us.
Key Takeaways
➤ Little Ladies is Tami Jones's debut fabric collection, designed for Andover Fabrics and available now at Missouri Star.
➤ The palette is pastel-forward garden whimsy — blossom pink, lilac, fern green, sky blue, sunshine yellow, cherry, hot pink, and a deep ink navy that keeps the whole thing from going too sweet.
➤ Every major precut is available: Double Scoops (2½" strips), Single Scoops (5" squares), Sundaes (10" squares), and a fat quarter bundle.
➤ There's a 108" wide backing print — Picnic Patchwork Blossom — so you can finish a Little Ladies quilt without piecing a back.
➤ Tami has four full tutorials on our site plus a co-designed appliqué template set and a creator page.
➤ She's taught at the Missouri Star Academy in 2025 and 2026, and runs her own shop at Hometown Quilt Company.
Meet Tami Jones of Hometown Quilt Company
Tami Jones is the heart and humor behind Hometown Quilt Company — a sewing educator and viral content creator known for stitching together stories, smiles, and a whole lot of bobbin drama. Her whole approach is built on the idea that you don't need to be precise to be good, which is a message a lot of quilters need to hear more often than they get it.
With a knack for turning everyday moments into relatable, laugh-out-loud lessons, Tami has inspired makers across the country to embrace creativity with courage, curiosity, and a healthy dose of imperfection.
Visit Tami's Missouri Star creator page to see everything she's made with us in one place.
Inside the Little Ladies Fabric Collection
Little Ladies is a ladybug collection at heart, but it isn't a novelty line. The bugs are drawn small and scattered, more "garden in June" than "cartoon bug," which is why the prints blend so well with the florals and solids you probably already have in your stash. Nine print families run through the collection, each in several colorways:
| What it is | Colorways | |
| Love Bug Hugs | Lady bugs and hearts — the signature print | Hot Pink, Cherry, White, Ink |
| Tickle Dots | Tossed polka dots — your best blender here | Sunshine, Lilac, Blossom, Sky |
| Giggle Garden | Garden florals with a bit of scale to them | Sky, Blossom, Ink |
| Flutter Friends | Winged garden friends, airy spacing | Sunshine, Hot Pink, Lilac |
| Hide and Seek | Small-scale print that reads almost solid from across the room | Cherry, Fern, Ink |
| Petal Parade | Petals in a tidy repeat | White, Lilac, Fern |
| Twin Treasures | Paired motifs, great for fussy cutting | Fern, Blossom, Lilac |
| Picnic Patchwork | Faux-patchwork cheater print — also the 108" wide backing | Blossom |
| Pinky Promise | Hearts-and-lady-bug panel with a built-in border | Blossom |
All of it is 100% cotton, which means it presses crisp, takes a needle cleanly, and softens beautifully after the first wash — the reason this collection makes such good baby and toddler quilts.
Which Little Ladies Precut Should You Buy?
Missouri Star cuts this collection into all our usual sizes, and because they're all pulled from the same print family, they mix without any planning at all. Here's how we'd choose:
Little Ladies Double Scoops — 2½" Strips
The fastest path to a finished quilt. Jelly roll strips let you sew a baby or lap quilt in a weekend, and this collection is particularly good in strip quilts because the pastels shade into each other rather than fighting. Start here if this is a gift with a deadline.
Little Ladies Single Scoops — 5" Squares
Charm packs are the right size for the small motifs in Little Ladies — a 5" square holds a whole lady bug vignette without cutting through it. Good for a simple patchwork baby quilt, pillow fronts, or a set of coasters and mug rugs when you want something quick.
Little Ladies Sundaes — 10" Squares
Layer cakes are where the larger Giggle Garden florals get to show off. Ten inches is enough to keep a full floral repeat intact, and a 10" square subcuts cleanly into four 5" squares or two half-square triangles if you change your mind halfway through.
Little Ladies Fat Quarter Bundle
Buy this one if you're appliquéing. Fat quarters give you enough of each print to cut shapes with intention — placing a lady bug exactly where you want it on a ghost, a bunny, or a banner — instead of taking whatever the precut hands you.
Pinky Promise Blossom Panel + 108" Wide Backing
The panel comes with its own border printed on, so a finished baby quilt can be as simple as panel plus binding — a genuinely useful shortcut when you need a shower gift by Saturday. And the Picnic Patchwork 108" backing means no piecing a back and no seam running down the middle of your quilt. Wide backing is the single most underrated time-saver in quilting.
Want to build your own palette instead? Shop fabric by the yard and pull individual Little Ladies prints in the colorways you want.
Tami Jones Projects and Tutorials at Missouri Star
Little Ladies isn't Tami's first appearance here. She's filmed four tutorials with us, and every one of them is appliqué-forward, beginner-friendly, and built around a project you can finish in an afternoon.
Appliqué Turkey Pillow
Tami builds a turkey with a Dresden-style tail using shapes from the Holiday Hat Trick Template Set she designed with Missouri Star, in Thistle and Rye fall prints from Henry Glass. The Dresden tail is the clever bit — it gives you all the visual complexity of a pieced turkey with none of the curved-seam headache.
Appliqué Spring Banners
An Easter bunny banner and a St. Patrick's Day shamrock banner, both built on Missouri Star blank craft base banners with printable PDF shapes. Starting from a blank banner base is what turns this from a project into an evening — no hemming, no binding, no math.
Piece of Cake Apron
Made with the Piece of Cake template builder set, released for the birthday of Chuck, Missouri Star's mascot. Tami turns the templates into frosted birthday cakes, party hats, and balloons — and once you see how the shapes stack, you'll start spotting other things you can build with them.
Patriotic Appliqué Apron & T-Shirt
A red, white, and blue flag apron (or t-shirt) built entirely from scraps, made for America's 250th. This is the one to watch if your scrap bin has gotten out of hand — the flag stripes eat leftovers at a satisfying rate.
Tami Jones + Missouri Star Holiday Hat Trick Template Set
Three holidays, one set of acrylic templates: a Halloween ghost (with a nested oval eye and round mouth), a Thanksgiving turkey body (with a nested beak), and a Christmas tree top and base (with the trunk nested inside the base). The nesting is the whole design idea — the small pieces live inside the big ones, so the set stores flat and you're never hunting for the eye shape. Works for appliqué and paper crafts alike, and it lives in our Missouri Star appliqué templates collection.
Project Ideas for Little Ladies
➤ A panel-and-border baby quilt. Pinky Promise panel, one round of Tickle Dots, backed in the 108" Picnic Patchwork. Done in a day.
➤ Appliquéd lady bugs on a blank banner base. Borrow Tami's spring banner method and swap in Little Ladies fat quarters for a spring or birthday banner.
➤ A strip quilt for a toddler bed. Double Scoops sewn into simple rows, with Hide and Seek Ink as the sashing to give the pastels structure. Pair with a baby quilt pattern if you'd rather follow along.
➤ Fussy-cut pillow fronts. Twin Treasures paired motifs centered in 10" squares, four to a pillow.
➤ A garden-party table runner. Petal Parade White as the background, Love Bug Hugs Cherry appliquéd on top.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Tami Jones?
Tami Jones is a quilter, sewing educator, and viral content creator behind Hometown Quilt Company. She's known for warm, funny, appliqué-focused teaching that gives beginners permission to be imperfect, and she has taught at both the 2025 and 2026 Missouri Star Academies.
Is Little Ladies Tami Jones's first fabric collection?
Yes. Little Ladies, designed for Andover Fabrics, is Tami's debut fabric collection — and it's available now at Missouri Star.
What precuts are available in Little Ladies?
Missouri Star carries Little Ladies Double Scoops (2½" strips), Single Scoops (5" squares), Sundaes (10" squares), and a fat quarter bundle, plus a Pinky Promise panel, individual yardage, and a 108" wide backing print.
What colors are in the Little Ladies collection?
The palette is pastel garden: blossom pink, lilac, fern green, sky blue, sunshine yellow, white, plus a saturated cherry, hot pink, and a deep ink navy that anchors the softer prints.
Is Little Ladies fabric good for baby quilts?
It's ideal for them. The prints are small-scale and gentle, the whole collection is 100% cotton that softens with washing, and the Pinky Promise panel plus 108" wide backing means you can make a finished baby quilt without piecing a back.
Where can I find more from Tami Jones?
Start with her Missouri Star creator page and her four tutorials on our site, then visit her own shop at Hometown Quilt Company. Her Holiday Hat Trick Template Set, co-designed with Missouri Star, covers Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas appliqué in one nesting set.