What Shade Are You? Blog Hop: Plus Plus Quilt Pattern and Giveaway

I am so excited to be part of RJR's What Shade Are You Blog Hop today! When I was invited to participate in the What Shade are You Blog Hop by RJR fabrics, I jumped at the chance. I just love blog hops and the chance to play with some wonderful fabric.

I have had a pattern in my head for a good while and was slowly collecting fabrics for it. Along came this hop and I knew that the bright and saturated colors of the RJR cotton supreme solids were perfect for it. I used color numbers 366, 361, 301, 355, 289, 159, 358, 354, 86, 356, 292, 127, 339, 357, 353, 221, 128, 249, 108, and 049 to create a fun and bright plus quilt.

I am calling the pattern Plus Plus and it is an alternating pattern of large and small plus blocks. I made the lap size version which finishes to about 63" x 63".

You can find the Plus Plus pattern in my pattern shop in both digital and print versions:

Digital PDF Pattern

Printed Pattern

I quilted the quilt using a light cream Aurifil thread echoing the seam lines of the blocks and going diagonally across the quilt.

I was originally planning on using a solid red as the binding, but once I put the quilt together it seemed like it needed something different so I decided to instead use a black and white striped binding.

In an effort to use up all of the beautiful fabric, I improv pieced the trimmings from the solids from the quilt top and combined them with the red solid that was originally going to be the binding and some metallic printed Cotton & Steel fabric.  The improv was a lot of fun and I am happy at how the quilt now a dual sided quilt :)  

This was the first time I had the chance to try the RJR Cotton Supreme fabrics and they were really great to work with. The Cotton Supremes have a wonderful saturation with a great hand and drape to them (The Cotton Supremes have a medium weight, a little lighter than a Kona and a little heavier than a Cotton Couture).

I had seen others write about how RJR solids resisted unraveling and I have to agree with them. From handling the cut pieces during the block construction all the way to sewing the binding on the quilt, the fabric stayed much nicer and had many fewer unravels that I had to trim off than usual. I am definitely planning on adding some more Cotton Supremes to my solids stash.

The Plus Plus quilt pattern is actually two complete patterns in one containing baby, lap, and queen sizes in a multi-color version using 1/4 yard cuts and fat quarters and a two-tone version using yardage with an accent block using strip piecing. You can see a sneak peek of the two tone version in the pattern cover below and I will be showing more pictures and details tomorrow.

You can find the Plus Plus pattern in my pattern shop in both digital and print versions:

Digital PDF Pattern

Printed Pattern

And now onto the giveaway!  

How would you like a chance to win a huge bundle of RJR Cotton Supremes?  Up for grabs is a bundle of 27 of the colors I used in my Plus Plus quilt!!  *The giveaway is open to the US and Canada. Sorry, no PO Boxes.

You have two entry chances, the second being optional, and please leave a separate comment for each entry.   (Leave an email address if you are a no-reply blogger.)  

ENTRY 1 - Simply leave a comment with your favorite color combination right now.

ENTRY 2 - All Meadow Mist Designs followers (new and old) can have a bonus entry, just leave a comment here of how you follow.  

(Here are some links for different following options: Bloglovin, Email, Instagram )

The giveaway will be open until next Friday, May 1st at 8pm EST.

** Giveaway now closed, thanks for entering! **

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