Pastel Play

Earlier this week I opened and colour sorted dozens of charm packs, One of the piles I made was a pastel busy prints pile. 

I could've made any old charm pack quilt pattern to destash them but I was more drawn to the idea of creating a scrappy style improv pieced project. So I whipped up these four test blocks and I loved them, so I kept sewing and made a pile of 36.



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Found them!

Last year I colour sorted all the charm packs I could find, but I suspected there were more hiding somewhere. This week I found them! So I colour sorted and sifted out all the busy prints.
  • Busy prints will be used in scrappy improv projects to destash them quickly. 
  • The colour sorted subtle prints, tonals and solids will be set aside for EPP projects. 
Then I sorted through that busy print stack and created three piles
  1. Saturated multi colour 
  2. Pastels
  3. Earthy natural tones
I already have tons of ideas about how to use those busy prints and will prioritise using them up this year. 

Every year I make an EPP Scrap Satisfaction hexagon quilt and I'm working on an Advent Scrap Along Christmas quilt in December each year, these charm squares will be handy to supplement my scraps and ensure plenty of fabric variety in those projects. The oranges will go into my current project in the coming weeks! 

If you have a stash of charm squares I highly recommend colour sorting them!


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Political Pattern Play

After adding a new mini quilt pattern to my FREE political pattern bundle today I decided to do a quilt layout mock up with all the patterns in one quilt, just for fun!
I added this cute patchwork flag block which is made with just 40 scrappy squares:
It was really fun playing around with this and seeing that they can all actually be used in one quilt!
Here are a couple of variations:
 
I love the simple red, white and blue!

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FREE Faux Improv Lettering Mini Quilt Pattern


I am releasing another FREE political pattern!
Do you love the improv pieced lettering style but are too scared to try it?
Then this pattern is for you! The block is FPP not improv!
I wanted this to look like a rushed political sign someone whipped up in preparation for a protest rally!
Peaceful protest is necessary! Protest, protest, protest!
Civilized nations should never start wars. Diplomacy is the way to help the Iranian people.
The lives of Iranian school girls matter. The lives of every person in the middle east matter.
America is heading to the mid terms with warmongers at the helm and must vote them out!
Click here to be redirected to my FREE downloads website:

https://adventurousquilter.yolasite.com/Political.php

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Basting and quilting!

This week I chose a whiskey print from my stash to back my postage stamp tumbler quilt  I needed to join two pieces to make it a wide enough quilt back, but I didn't want half bottles so I aligned the bottles, glued and pinned the fabric in place:

Then I topstitched the seem so I could keep an eye on the bottles to ensure they stayed aligned. It turned out great!
Then I got to work spray basting it: 

And quilting it with a simple meandering FMQ. 
After it was finished I washed it and then hung it on the line for a few hours before popping it in the dryer for the final fluff up to make it nice and crinkly.
This will be great to snuggle up under this winter.
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