Thursday, January 15, 2015

Building Blocks at the Moda Bake Shop

I am very excited to have another Moda Bake Shop tutorial posted today!!! Please hop over and check out Building Blocks. Thank you to all who are visiting from the Bake Shop!

I love all of Bonnie & Camille's fabric collections so I was incredibly excited to get to play with their new line Daysail.  I especially love the dark blues in the line, the are so rich and saturated.  

From my survey during the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day I found that many many people had trouble deciding what to with the charm packs they had hanging out in their sewing rooms.  For the pattern, my goal was to create a fun and beginner friendly quilt that uses only 1 charm pack.

The quilt is actually pieced as one large court house block with a center square and a number of borders.  The center square is also perfect to personalize using an appliqued or embroidered name.

I used a different quilt pattern for each of the types of borders:

In the center, I quilted pebbles using a white thread.  For the background borders, I quilted straight lines using a white thread.  For the charm square borders, I quilted a wood grain pattern using a light gray thread.  For the print borders (the dark blue boat print), I quilted a stipple pattern using a dark blue thread.




I hope you hope over to the Moda Bake Shop to check out the quilt and tutorial :)

I am linking up to Link a Finish FridayWhoop Whoop FridayThank Goodness Its Finished FridayFinish It Up FridayFabric Frenzy Friday,  Sewjo @ My Go Go Life, and Show Off Saturday @ Sew She Can.


This was also my January goal for ALYoF  Here was my January goal setting post.





17 comments:

  1. What a cute pattern to show off prints you love, and using a charm pack for the basis is pretty sweet, too (I hate cutting fabric although I vary rarely purchase pre-cuts).

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  2. Very cute quilt and a wonderful use for a charm pack! Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Great job Cheryl! It turned out beautiful. I especially like the dark borders to really help the colors pop. ~Shari

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  4. Such a cute design! I already downloaded it and plan on using some of my charms for this!

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  5. Your quilting is gorgeous! Lovely quilt.

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  6. I love those prints and the tutorial is great! Thanks for sharing.

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  7. Cute quilt, thank you for the tute!!

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  8. looks great Cheryl, and your quilting is awesome fun :)

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  9. GOtta love Bonnie and Camille!!! ANd your finish came out great!!!

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  10. This would be a great quilt for a new arrival! Your quilting is lovely!

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  11. Oh, so pretty!! Congratulations! The quilting is gorgeous, Cheryl!

    -Soma

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  12. Love this! You are so right about a stash of charm packs with no plans. Saving this for a quick baby quilt emergency fund :)

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  13. Your quilting is lovely and this is such a fun quilt design too! I seem to collect charm packs, so I should start putting them to use. Congrats on being featured at the Bake Shop!

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  14. Love this quilt on the bakeshop. I've already bookmarked it to my favourites.

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