"Fairy Tale Lane" Quilt in Reproduction Fabrics

Here is my completed “Fairy Tale Lane” quilt, a pattern from Tula Pink’s book, Quilts from the House of Tula Pink. I used a stack of reproduction fabric fat quarters for the quilt so only the pattern is from Tula Pink.

I quilted this on my faithful Bernina 440. But because I was stitching free-motion houses which are quite large, it was a struggle. Each large block in the quilt includes a patch of fabric with dogs. I quilted a white picket fence on all dog blocks. Every dog deserved a fenced in yard if possible! I also quilted some trees, doghouses, flowers and one set of bushes. All the smaller motifs were very doable—even fun! Only the houses gave me trouble.

In hindsight, it would have been a lot easier to have rented a long-arm quilting machine to do that free-motion quilting. Then it would have been easy to stitch out those large houses. But I’m never sure how quickly I can finish a quilt, and I’d need to be done in a single day, so I’ve never done that.

While I was quilting, I was sure I wasn’t going to like the houses, but they are fairy houses, so I figured some quirkiness is allowable. Clearly the fairy builders didn’t own a level!! When I finally finished and looked at the quilt, it was much better than I’d thought.

Here are some close-ups of the quilting.

house

house

row houses

dog house

flowers

tree

house

picket fence

I’ll call this free-motion quilting “whimiscal!” But this quilt will definitely be a one-off! Though I do really like the “roads” in the quilt pattern!

"Bowtie" Completed Quilt

Here is the completed “Bowtie” quilt from the book, Just One Charm Pack Quilts. The quilting is really simple. I quilted the grid of squares and then quilted the diagonal lines of the triangular pieces in the blocks. It has a polyester batting so this modest amount of quilting will allow the quilt to be light and a bit puffy.

What’s on the back? That’s were this story gets interesting. Years ago…and I mean years, maybe 10-15!, I purchased a cheater*quilt fabric. The problem was, the blocks in the cheater print are only one inch square! That is way too small to use as blocks to practice quilting. Might have made a quilt for a tiny doll. But I had two yards of it. So, despite the fact that I liked the bold colors and the design, it languished in the bottom of a bin of stash fabrics.

Hunting around for a backing for this quilt, I saw this fabric in the bin and realized it echoed the colors and character of this quilt. This old friend was suddenly the perfect backing for my new quilt. What do you think?

*The design of quilt fabrics is a completed quilt top printed on the fabric.

Here is “Field Puzzle”, a cheater quilt fabric to which I added blocks, making it more of my own. And “Storybook Houses”, a panel I designed, which makes a fun which that would have been really challenging to piece.

"Cut, Sew, Repeat" Quilts

I made these two quilts after taking Cheryl Arkison’s online Quilters Playcation class, “Cut, Sew, Repeat.” Well, actually I made the orange quilt during the class! Both quilts were made with bundles of fabric which were gifts, plus some additional fabric from my stash.

The quilt at top with made with the “Cat Bundle” from the quilt shop, Gather Here, in Cambridge, MA. When I posted the quilt top on Instagram, the store commented that this was the first quilt they’d seen using the bundle in one quilt. And they loved it! It’s an eclectic feline collection, including big wild cats and whimsical domestic cats. But definitely all cats!

The quilt below was made with another bundle. The prints on the quilt front were from the bundle and the solids were from the stash.

These quilts were both experiments, made just for fun. Both backings were made from leftovers from other quilts. And both quilts have “franken-batting”. What is that?? It’s pieces of leftover batting, cobbled together to make a batting the size needed for the project. I used both zig-zag stitching and fusible quilt batting tape to attach the batting bits. Both do work. The cat quilt has a cotton batting and the orange quilt has a polyester batting as it’s going to be a dog quilt (see my previous post)!

You can get some really interesting patterns using Cheryl’s technique. And you can make a quilt top in record time. It’s definitely worth taking the class at some point when it’s offered again. You can find out when Cheryl is offering classes on her Quilter’s Playcation website.

Finishes Coming Soon!

Just finishing up a small stack of quilt tops…more about that to come, just not quite ready yet! It’s great to be getting some quilting done. The pup is nine months old now, and he’s figured out that if I’m at a sewing machine, it’s not “Dog Time”!

Knitting Chickens!

Not every project is a big one! I was out shopping at a local(ish) quilt shop last week and saw this fabric which features chickens working on knitting projects. It was designed by Gail Cadden for Timeless Treasures.

I have a friend who just added an annex to her hen house and now has 25 chickens (or more accurately 15 hens and 10 still indeterminate chicks which will either grow up to be laying hens or roosters who will be destined to become Sunday dinner at some point). In her spare time from her full time job, she knits and bakes to relax.

There was no way I could leave the store without a half yard of this fabric! All the other components of this project came out of my stash. And the best thing of all, the binding for the potholder was already made, a remnant from another quilting project!

A fun afternoon project!

My Design Your Own Quilt Sampler Quilt Top...in Progress

I think I might have mentioned that I am running a “Design Your Own Quilt” project for the quilt guild I belong to. I came up with the idea for this project…it’s the Mystery Quilt with NO mystery! And the Block of the Month with no waiting…I distributed half of the blocks at the first meeting and the rest at the following meeting. It hopefully has something for everyone.

The quilters can choose to make a whole quilt from a single block, use two or more blocks, make a quilt using one or more block with a chaining alternate block, take a block apart and make it improv, make a sampler quilt using all the blocks, or make whatever else they want to do. It can be any size from a table runner to a king size quilt. It really is a design your own quilt using a set of 11 blocks with one which can be made 2 ways, giving a total of 12 blocks.

10 of these blocks are from The Early Women Masters website, and they are royalty free. The site just has the blocks designs. I used Electric Quilt 8 to make instructions for each block.

The improv log cabin block, second row center, is courtesy of Cheryl Arkison and was one of the blocks in her 2022 Quilters Adventure Playcation Sew Along. She generously gave her permission for our guild to use this block.

The Road to Oklahoma block, bottom row center, is from the Electric Quilt 8 Block Library and is the alternate block I chose to offer.

This quilt top is almost finished, but not quite. I’m planning on adding some borders, but the finished quilt isn’t due until sometime in the fall, so I still have lots of time get it done.

"Bowtie": Two Different Diagonal Chains Make This Quilt Top

This lap sized quilt pattern is called “Bowtie” in the Just One Charm Pack Quilts book by Cheryl Brickey. This isn’t a traditional bowtie pattern, which has a small block between the two triangles and really looks like a bowtie a gentleman might wear. This pattern is a modern variation of the bowtie.

If you squint at this pattern, you’ll realized it is actually 2 parallel sets of chaining blocks. One chain has the navy blue squares and the other has larger off-white squares. It’s a fun design and I love this quilt!

There were a lot of ways that assembling this quilt could go awry, so I tediously sewed it together removing 2 blocks at a time from my design wall. When I had all the strips of blocks assembled, I put it on the floor to check it. Wise decision! Do you see what I saw?

Can you spot the layout error?

Whew! One four patch block rotated a quarter turn. I’d have been one sorry camper if I’d merrily assumed everything was just fine and sewed all the strips together. That error would have been “buried” near the center of the quilt. But, happily, I was able to unpick the two seams holding that block, rotate it to it’s correct position, and sew in back in place.

I once made a similar error that was in a very complex queen sized quilt. I didn’t even notice it when the quilt was all done….but a friend who is has an eye that picks out variations in patterns noticed it right away. Undoing it was unthinkable, and because it doesn’t stand out to my eyes, I happily left that error in place.

If I hadn’t picked up the rotated block in this quilt before I sewed all the strips together, I’d either have been really annoyed, or thought it was a worth a good chuckle. Since that didn’t happen, I can tell you which reaction I’d have had!

I’m trying to decide if I’m done, or if I’m going to add one or more borders. As is, it will fit on a 42 inch wide fabric backing without the need for any piecing. That makes stopping at this size a very viable option! And I think it will look really crisp with just the addition of a navy blue binding.

I wonder if I have anything in my stash that will do for a backing….

Treasure Map - 2023 Quilters Playcation Adventure Sewalong at 3 month

I’m in for another year of fun sewing along with Cheryl Arkison’s 2023 Quilters Playcation Adventure Sewalong which she is offering free on YouTube. Last year Cheryl gave us an improv block once a week. This year it’s a block a month with a theme: A treasure map. I’m thinking along the lines of a pirate treasure map, but it might just be a map to find a treasure. Cheryl is offering two versions, a more realistic version and a smaller abstract one. I chose the smaller abstract option.

April is the third month of the map. So far we have:

• Ocean waves

• Footprints in the sand

• A volcano

I chose to make my volcano strip a bit of a story in itself. It goes from healthy flora, to dead flowers, to the lava spewing volcano, to lava traveling over a scorched landscape and finally lava dropping into the ocean. I might redo the 3rd block from the right, adding another bright orange flow adjacent to the cooling lava. I think that’s a good idea.

And a little while later…Here’s the re-do. I think it’s definitely an improvement. That’s the great thing about improv. You can just make another cut (or several cuts) if there is something you want to change!

What’s coming next? We’ve been told there will be palm trees, and eventually there will be a treasure, or at least the something marking the location of the treasure, but we don’t really know. It’s an adventure after all! It’s not too late to join the fun—check the link above for the three 2023 videos that Cheryl has done.

"Nine Patch Challenge" Completed Quilt Top

The puppy had a sleepy under-the-weather day so I seized the opportunity and assembled the blocks I had made for the the “Nine Patch Challenge” quilt from the book, Just One Charm Patch Quilts.

The blocks in this quilt are set “on point” so they look like diamonds rather than squares. I generally don’t like making on-point quilts because of all the setting triangles needed along the sides of the quilt to make the sides straight. But the instructions and diagrams in this book were excellent and so there was none of the hassles and frustration that often occur with on-point quilts. Whew!

Here’s what it looked liked laying out the blocks before sewing them together. My design wall needs to be replaced, so it was easier just to put everything on the floor this time. You can see I had the book open to follow the layout diagram.

The setting triangles on the sides of the quilt are squares cut in half. That means the free side of all those blocks are fabric cut on the bias. That means they are all s-t-r-e-t-c-h-y and have to be handled gently. (Tip: If you are worried about this stretch, or are new to quilting or haven’t sewed a lot, starching the fabric with a spray starch and ironing it before you cut it will help by limiting some of the stretchiness).

The pattern calls for a border of the background fabric and this is one instance where you really need the border—it stabilizes all those stretchy-sided setting blocks, giving the finished quilt top the stability it needs. I had extra fabric so I cut my borders wider than what the pattern called for. I sort of wish I’d made them even wider, but it’s done now, so I’m calling it good!

This is the first time I’ve used this book and I’m really happy with how this pattern worked. There are some other intriguing patterns in the book so I know I’ll make at least a couple others.

The puppy is back to his bouncy self, so this quilt top is joining a growing stack of tops in need to quilting.

"Nine Patch Challenge" Quilt

My newest work in progress is the “Nine Patch Challenge” quilt from the book, Just One Charm Pack Quilts. The fabric in the pack of 5 inch squares is “Zinnia” by April Rosenthal printed by Moda Fabrics.

The nine patch blocks will be set on point with bright solid peachy pink alternate blocks between them. It’s going to be a very cheerful quilt, 46 x 54 1/2 inches with a multi-color striped fabric from the same line for the binding.

Ordinarily it wouldn’t take me very long to sew this quilt…but the 7 1/2 month old puppy isn’t keen on having me spend time at the sewing machine, and his naps are fewer, farther apart and shorter! But, nevertheless, all in good time!

"Fairy Tale Lane" Quilt Top in Reproduction Prints, with Dogs!

The puppy is 7 months old this week so sewing time is limited. On Saturday I gave him his first raw meaty marrow bone and he gave me 2 1/2 hours of unbroken silence (except for chewing sounds) which allowed me to finally put this quilt top together. Whew!!

The pattern, “Fairy Tale Lane” was designed by Tula Pink and is in her book, Books from the House of Tula Pink: 20 Projects to Make, Use, and Love.

The fabric is a reproduction print. I’m thinking it imitates fabrics that are post-Civil War, but pre-1900, but that’s only my guess. I was gifted a very big stack of fat quarters from this line and other than the solids used for the “lanes”, the whole quilt is cobbled together from these fat quarters. There is a piece of fabric printed with little dogs in each of the quilt’s blocks which adds an extra element fun. (Look for the lightest patches in each block and you’ll find the dogs).

The actual puppy is going to look stunning on this quilt when I finally get it done. But it might be a long while at this rate! I already have quite a stack of UFOs from this year, all waiting to get quilted.

"Fox and Geese" Block

Every year when Karen Montgomery designs her Brown Bag Mystery Quilt, she also designs a project as an introduction to the tools and techniques needed to cut and assemble quilt. This year the practice project is a “Fox and Geese Table Runner”.

I decided to only make a single block, using non-traditional St. Patrick’s Day fabric. Karen used a solid fabric for her background but my scraps only worked if I flipped it and used the patterned fabric as the background.

This is a really busy looking block and it’s a bit hard to see the star which has a pinwheel in the center of the star. It’s a large block, finishing at 16 inches square. I might make a good pillow cover.
I also think this “Fox and Geese” block would make a beautiful one block quilt with the right fabrics. But for now, I’ve got the practice project under my belt and and I’m ready for the actual BBM quilt which starts this weekend. Can’t wait to see what Karen has created this year!

Mystery Quilt: Brown Bag Mystery 2023

I wasn’t going to do this mystery quilt. I made 2 versions of “To the Point”, Karen Montgomery’s 2022 Brown Bag Mystery Quilt (BBM) which are beautiful. But the quilt pattern was larger than I wanted to tackle this year. But she has 2 options this year—one lap size and one queen size, so that made it doable.

In this mystery quilt you don’t get to chose the fabric or the pattern. The only option is picking a colorway, or perhaps seeing a focus fabric from the set. Initially there weren’t any fabric collections that interested me. But O’Sewpersonal Fabric Shop in O’Fallon, Missouri, showed the fabric on the left in the photo above in their second set of Brown Bag fabric options. The very saturated colors with the sunflowers, hydrangeas, daisies and forget-me-nots grabbed my attention. I really liked the fabric and wondered how that large print was going to work in a quilt. So, I signed on for 2023’s adventure.

When the fabrics arrived, things began to fall into place. The four fabrics on the right are the fabrics in the pieced blocks. The large print is for the borders. Based on the ruler recommended and the fact that all the fabrics that will be pieced have tossed designs (no matter which direction you turn the fabric the design looks fine and the flowers are small), I expect this quilt will feature some half square triangles and other similar blocks.

Clue number 1 comes on March 18th, with subsequent clues every other week. Because this is a mystery quilt, I will wait until it’s completed before I share it here on the blog. But there is a practice block, to be made with other fabrics of my choice, which may appear sooner…if I decide to make it!

Can’t wait to see what transpires this year. If you want to play along, you need to find a participating quilt shop to purchase fabric. That grants you access to the pattern which is mailed every other week, and private Facebook group where Karen Montgomery give excellent videos of how to sew each step. If there is a list of all the shops, I haven’t seen it. But a search for 2023 Brown Bag Mystery will give you a collection of posts from participating shops.

Click to see my 2022 BBM quilts. The floral quilt was made with the BBM quilt fabric I purchased and the dog quilt fabric came from my stash.

Improv to the Rescue of a Traditionally Pieced Quilt!

Turns out it’s really difficult to pay attention to cutting instructions when you keep getting distracted by your 6 month old puppy. It also doesn’t help to be working in small increments of time on multiple days. So…I thought I had all the pieces cut for Tula Pink’s “Fairy Tale Lane” pattern from her book, Quilts from the House of Tula Pink, but not quite.

Turns out I had most of the pieces, but I found several of them were cut a bit too short. I’m using a set of fat quarters and there is no more fabric. So, I improvised. Initially I added a piece of the same fabric, but as I carried on, I used contrasting fabrics instead. I liked that so much that I unpicked the matching patches and replaced them with contrasting one.

There are 4 blocks in the photo above. Three of them have been “enhanced” with an added patch. One of them is perfect. Can you tell which is which?

I actually think this is going to make this quilt much more interesting. While it might not work for every traditionally pieced block, it clearly does for this one.

Oh, and one other thing. Tula Pink designs modern quilt fabrics, quilts, and accessories. I must have some kind of moxie to be using late 1800’s reproduction fabrics in one of her patterns. It’s the little dogs folks! Why else??

My Show and Tell from the Threadhouse Taster Weekend

A couple weeks ago, The Threadhouse, a UK Retreat and Pattern company, offered a free Taster’s Choice weekend as part of the launch of their online programs for this year. They are offering three units over the course of the year—Using Scraps, Color (or actually that would be Colour), and Repurposing/Recycling Fabrics.

There were a number of tutorials offered over the weekend. I chose to do four projects The supplies didn’t arrive in time for one of them (still waiting!) so that will appear at some later point.

Karen Lewis, maybe best known for her hand screen printed fabrics and the commercially printed Blueberry Park from Kaufman Fabrics, gave a tutorial on making a fold-over pouch. She had a panel of flying geese in her version but mentioned that this could also be a good use for “orphan blocks”—those left-over blocks from a quilt when too many got made, or practice blocks for a project. I have a small bin full of orphan blocks. Brilliant…this suggestion made my day. Above are 2 of my orphan block fold over pouches. Below you can see the whole blocks for one of them unfolded.

Lynne Goldsworthy sells “Super Speedy” templates for making 8 perfect half-square triangles (HST) at the same time. (Her website is under constructions but check out the beautiful Schoolhouse Quilt pattern she also has available at the moment).

For the Threadhouse weekend, she offered a pincushion project using her 1 inch square half square triangle templates. She made her samples out of Liberty Lawn which is a perfect choice for these tiny blocks. Her HSQ template is amazing…my fabric choice, not so much! I knew I needed a little print. But little was too big—it needed to be tiny. My origami storks looked great next to the red solid but they didn’t work in these tiny blocks. So I outlined the star design I chose with Shashiko thread to give the pattern a little bit of definition. Not great, but hey, it’s pincushion! And now I know how awesome her printed HST templates are!

The third project, offered by Jo Avery, was a felt floral broach which I made into a name tag. Because of my peg doll projects I have a lovely stash of wool felt. So this project was right up my alley. What wasn’t, was embroidering my name! I’ve always struggled with that—there are just too many curves in the letters. This time I got tripped up on the D. I drew the letter with a vanishing fabric marker but it didn’t translate into thread as I hoped. Oh well, it’s “organic” and “homemade”… aren’t those supposed to be prized assets?

Do check out Jo’s website in the link above, especially the patterns she has for sale.

I have to say, all of the instructors comments on the weekend’s Show and Tell page were positive, appreciative, and kind. I found that so encouraging and refreshing. None of them said “That’s great, but…”

Anyhow, I had a great weekend sewing in-between dog-walking and doing errands.

Linear Piecing Quilt Project #dreamlines2023

Right after I made the linear piano key border for my Puss in the Corner quilt I saw a post on Instagram from a woman who, like me, had also been sewing along regularly in Cheryl Arkison’s 2022 Quilters Adventure Playcation Sew Along (#qpadventuresewalong). Her new post showed linear pieced blocks from a new year-long project she had just joined. Totally intrigued, I clicked over to see what she was doing.

Brenda Gael Smith, an Australian quilter, is hosting her #dreamlines2023 project. It consists of 10 months, January 2023-October 2023) of different strip-pieced blocks. The patterns and instructions are offered each month to folks who sign up for her newletter on her Serendipity Patchwork and Quilting website. In November Brenda will discuss ways to join the strips and December will be the month to show what we’ve made.

Brenda says this can be an improv project or a precision pieced project. Above are my January (green) and February (navy) strips. I’m using her width-of-fabric option, so for me it’s just easier to cut the fabric using a ruler. She also gives instructions for smaller strips which are fat quarter friendly.

Last year in my Quilters Adventure Playcation Sew Along quilt I used mostly scraps with pastel backgrounds, but I really liked what folks were doing with curated fabric collections. So for this project I picked a set of fabrics to use in my Dreamlines2023 pieced strips. I actually pulled solids that I often have left behind in the bin because they were too bright or too dark. Well, not the red, but most of the others. Guessing that most of these strips will use pops of colors, this seems like a perfect time to use these fabrics.

January strips and the fabrics I pulled for this project

All my fabrics are solids. But I just saw someone post some great blocks which made use of a striped fabric in the center strip. Printed stripes added to pieced stripes make really awesome strips! When I complimented her on that great idea, she thanked me but told me she actually borrowed the idea from someone else. Hmm. I might just do the same. I’m still thinking about if I want to stray from my solids-only collection.

If you want to see what folks are doing, check out these tags on Instagram. #dreamlines2023 #dreamlinesproject and the month followed by dreamlines #februarydreamlines

Or sign up on and join the fun! Brenda’s newsletter sign-up is at the very bottom of her website home page. Scroll all the way down to find it!

Piano Key border--a Brief Tutorial

For years I have looked at “piano key” borders on quilts and thought there was no way. It looked like way too much sewing. But I wanted to widen the quilt top in my last post and I only had some strips left from my stack of fat quarters. So I decided to finally try making a piano key border. It’s actually really easy!

I wanted fairly narrow keys, so I cut 2 inch strips the width of the fat quarters. That gave me strips 2 x 20 inches. As you can see from the photo above, I sewed 10 of these strips together.

TIP: if you cut strips 40 inches wide (a full width of fabric) or use a 2 1/2 inch strip set, sew the strips together starting the seam at the opposite end of the strips from where the last one started. This will help keep the strip set straight. There is a chance they will start to develop a slight curve if you start each seam at the same end of the strip set.

Press the seams all in the same direction. Then cut the set of piano keys the width you want for your quilt. I chose 4 inches. That gave me 5 strip sets from my 20 inch wide strips.

Cutting a set of piano keys for a quilt border from a strip set

I’d recommend keeping the number of strips you sew together in you wide strip set to under 20 inches long. I think cutting the piano key sections will get really unwieldy if you have a very long strip set. Make a couple of sets rather than one super long set of strips.

Sew you cut piano key strips together end-to-end to make the border. Cut to the length needed. Attach the border to the quilt and press toward the body of the quilt. If you have really light colored quilt and are worried about the seam from the keys showing, add a narrow border between the quilt and the piano key border as I did in my quilt shown below.

Have fun! This is so much faster and easier than it looks!

Piano key border on a quilt top

"Puss in the Corner" Quilt Top

This is the quilt I made with the fabrics I pulled for my last post. The pattern is a classic—”Puss in the Corner.”

The puss in the corner patches (the ladybugs here) look like an open chain. And depending on the fabrics used, the rest of the block can create a stair-step effect. You can see that best with the 2 yellow-orange fabrics in this quilt. I really like how those two yellow-orange fabrics are out of step with each other. It catches the eye in a way that a continuous series would not.

The basic quilt is only 36 x 48 inches. I liked the length but not the width. So for the first time ever, I added a “piano key” border. Not only does it widen the quilt by about 4 inches, it also allowed me to add a few pops of green. The cool greens are a really welcome relief in a quilt that is really HOT!

In my next post I’ll give a short tutorial on making a piano key border. It looks like a it would be a lot of work but it really isn’t!

My 2022 Quilters Playcation Adventure Sewalong Quilt Top

Cheryl Arkison created and hosted a year-long sew along for 2022. Each week she designed a new improv quilt block and demonstrated making it in an Instagram live on Tuesday.

At the beginning of the year she sketched out a number of blocks that she might use. We definitely made some of those designs. But just as often, something in her life or something that happened during the week would be the inspiration for that week’s block.

There is a Ukrainian tryzub which she designed when war broke out and another block showing solidarity for folks affected by flooding from monsoons. There are fireworks for a Canadian holiday (and the US Independence Day). There is a Strong Woman like the statue on Wall Street—though mine is a grandmother welcoming all with open arms. There are lakes and hills, leaves and a glacier and ripples on the water. There is sunshine and a smile. A winter cap called a toque, a fireplace and a cozy looking home. There is a spiderweb, and a section of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. A heart and a gnome and an arrow. The last block was an American Sign Language
Thank You” sign (the bottom left corner block), her thanks to us for playing along all year, but really it is we who should be thanking her for all her hard work!

I managed to get all 52 blocks into this quilt top. I organized the blocks in columns by their widths and added strips of fabric to the smaller blocks as needed. There was one very large block comprised of a set of 4 log cabin blocks that just didn’t fit anywhere. I cut that block down to fill a gap in a row. Two of the log cabin sections are intact, while only a fraction of the other two remain.

This photo is a bit blurry in places because I took the picture with the quilt lying on the floor. It looks fine on Instagram but not great here. Once it’s been quilted I’ll post another photo of it hanging up properly.

If you want to see what other folks have made, check out the hashtags #qpadventuresewalong and #quiltersplaycation on Instagram. My quilt is scrapy, but there are some truly spectacular quilts made from carefully curated color/fabric combinations. Check them out!

"Puss in the Corner" Quilt in Progress

I’m working on a Puss in the Corner quilt as part of a guild project. I’ve had this set of red orange/hot peach/peach fabrics waiting for the right quilt. It grabbed my attention when I went to search my stash.

The prints are all Tula Pink fabrics, which makes it easy. She has a fairly consistent selection of colors which she uses over and over again in her fabric collections.

All I have is fat quarters in the peach fabrics. The ladybug fabric is a half yard, minus a doll dress which I cut from it. This limits the size of the quilt—it will be a small baby size.

I’m gradually working on it. I have the fabric cut for the blocks and have assembled the two halves of each block.

Here’s one of the half blocks. In my case, the Puss in the Corner is the Ladybugs!

This is going to be a very bright quilt! Perhaps even shockingly bright! But I think it’s going to be great, especially since it’s going to be small.