Well, it looks like it is a Freaky Friday situation. Yup, we have previously done this block already, except there is a slight change in the pattern. Today you will be utilizing scraps of grey, purple, and neutral if you are going by the quilt legend below:.
If you are looking at the quilt legend above and have not sewn one block, you will never be too late to start. This will remain free and out there as long as I am alive. Here is the link to all the blocks. And here is the electronic copy of today’s block.
Here are my fabric choices, I went a bit different than shown. Using what I’ve got.
And you to help you with color assignment you may want to use the template sheet legend and color that in so you do not confused like I did in the video. Here are the templates.
And here is my finished block, I am very pleased with the outcome.
The center of this, is bulky and could use a hammer to flatten.
Here is the video, it will help guide you to a block success.
Please reach out to me with any questions you may have, because I am so rushed to try to cram these in on the weekends, I may have hurried this and forgot an important detail. Thank you for understanding, and reading my blog!
Today is another easy block build. If you are following the colorway in the quilt legend below, you will need a background neutral, a yellow, and a blue fabric.
For best results, you will follow the instruction on the youtube video. Here are the cutting templates to download if you so chose as well as the cutting instruction document. let me know if you like the cutting instruction document? Do you find this helpful?
I am very pleased with how my block turned out. The first block I made I will have to completely seam rip. It was less successful. But the redo is necessary.
And here is the video with cutting and advice on the block build. Because this block in EQ8 was originally slated to be a 5 inch block, it created weird cutting dimensions, which do not exist on my rulers! So I have simplified this as much as possible for you. I hope you find this block successful!
And if you are interested in any of the blocks you see in the quilt along pictorial, head on over to all those blocks and click here.
Hello scrap and quilting enthusiasts. Regardless of your favorite media of scraps (mine is fabric), us scrappy people are always looking for different ways to utilize our scraps. We keep things hanging around for a long period of time, just waiting for the right thing to happen. in the mean time, you have to store them. As far as fabric goes, I have been using a “system” now for about 5 years, and it has been a game changer.
Us quilters know when we make a quilt, if we cut the fabric to a different size you are left with a remaining size that might or might not be desirable. That fabric remnant no matter the size is considered a scrap. As I “process through my fabric” cutting down to the desired size for whatever block or border I am making, I start using my system. I place the unused fabric folded next to my sewing machine. After the pile wants to play jenga (haha), that is when I take the time to file it back into my “system”. The smaller bits and bobs get thrown into a basket. Larger pieces go back into the sorted ziploc baggies and into the tote. And when I have time, I trim those smaller pieces to usable sizes. 3 1/2, 2 1/2, 2, and 1 1/2 inch squares. Those get put into my bins. Because most of this fabric is already starched, these will be ready for use, and can become a quilt pretty quickly. A homemade precut so to speak.
And Yes, I open my charm packs to cannibalize for quilt projects that need scrappy variety. And those store nicely in the bin too. I have made the following quilts relatively quickly using this system.
Now if I cut a WOF strip and only use a couple of pieces, I leave that strip in tact and put it on a dowel pressing rod just above my sewing machine. As the rod has fabrics draped over it, when it tilts, it is time to bag up the scraps and move those to my tote. Those get folded nice and neatly and placed in a ziploc bag with the air removed and packed into the tote. All of these are also starched a relatively easy to use with minimal effort. I have made a couple of string quilts as well using this method.
And for about a year now, I have been mulling over a scrappy idea quilt pattern in my head. Do you remember the quilts called Crazy Quilts from years past? This is an example I found online.
What if, you could just lay your fabric on your backing and batting and did this without the decorative stitch. Laying them and not sewing them would not work, but what if you placed organza over the top and then quilted all the pieces within the quilt sandwich? That is exactly what I am doing. There is no size scrap that is too small or too big. Random pieces just flung about, and totally organic. I am doing this at my longarm, but you could use some glue and do this at your domestic machine. AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, the WHOLE SCRAP is used FOREVER and does NOT transform into a different size, LOL!
I have videoed my endeavor on this idea, and it is working great! I will get yet another free quilt out of my scraps (I say free because some of those bits could have been tossed into the trash).
Weather permitting I will be in the garage scrapping away until it is done. I was surprised how fast I got a 3rd of the way done on this quilt. Eliminating sewing the quilt top is really trimming time to a quicker finish. You could do this on a smaller scale with some glue, on your domestic machine. Or you could go for broke and go large. I wish I would have snapped a photo of what I was doing but forgot. It is all in the video.
And as a side note, do not forget I am currently in the middle of a quilt along. If you are interested in making this from your scraps, the block patterns, linked here will never go away and are available for download when/if you chose to make this. I have not posted in a couple of weekends. I have a video made, and a block made, but dang, time just gets away from me. Eventually I will get to that.
Make sure to visit all the other bloggers for their scrap happy posts. Some of the scrappy ideas are genius which may inspire you to make a scrappy project. Here are those links with all their beautiful ideas:
And one last share, to be transparent, the next quilt I did have to spend about $25 to get some of the right colors called out in the pattern, so some of this is not scraps, but this one is finally finished. I love love love my purple background!
And remember, if you do not have plural-ness at the beginning of scraps, it just is crap, hahahaha! Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog!
Hello quilters, it has been a bit. Sorry for the delay of this post. These tutorials are getting hard to turn out one per week because I have a full plate. I need to know how many of you are still going forth with this quilt along? I am debating just posting the template files and the EQ8 cutting instruction so I can proceed in a different way than doing a video a week.
Youtube is not pushing those block videos. And if you go look at my videos of recent vs the block videos, you will see that there is smaller interest in the block videos. And I want to keep the channel growing organically. Let me know what you think of just cutting instruction and templates. I will show in this post the cutting instruction EQ8 gives and tell me if that is good enough for you to get where you need to be on this quilt along.
Today’s block serving is called lady of the lake. The measurements for this block are tricky. Seam allowance is fudged on this block to keep your points.
How I dissected these crazy measurements is math in my head. The templates when you print them off the large HST should measure just a hair shy of 4 1/8. All of the cutting instruction is in the video below. This block turned out far better than I imagined it could.
Reach out if I have errored and left something out, and don’t hesitate to ask questions. Save your fabric from turning into more scraps. And thank you for reading my blog!
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