I am a wee bit late posting about this really cool quilt-a-long. Lori Holt wrote a fantastic book about using your scraps to make amazing and fun quilts. Scrappiness is Happiness is a must buy - I truly wish to make everything in this book! AND, Lori and the Fat Quarter Shop, along with a few other quilt designers, are doing a QAL (quilt-a-long) so we get to make one of every block. SO COOL!
In this post I introduced you to my talented friend Pat Sloan, who is also sewing along with this QAL. So I started with Pat and her amazing quilting group back on October 2022 making one block a week from this book.
This is the only QAL I have kept up with! With everything happening in my world right now, I really need the calm of sewing and have been carving out time here and there to make these blocks. And I am SEW glad I have!
The layout for this QAL is online at the Jolly Jabber blog by Fat Quarter Shop. In the images of my blocks below, you'll see I have already started to add some sashing. Pat runs a lot of QALs and always suggests if we can begin to sew the blocks together AS WE WORK ALONG then it won't be such a daunting process at the end. You reach the last block, and voilà! Your quilt top is nearly assembled. Genius.
I am using a variety of Lori Holt fabrics by Riley Blake. Most are not available any longer, but any of her lines can be used to achieve a similar look:
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