By Alisa
We are finishing up a 5 year project at work and I have been thinking of making something to commemorate the completion. I ended up making the small quilt below for one of my teammates. It came together really easily and I love how it turned out.
Back in April I was rummaging around looking for something else and came across this single PB&J by BasicGrey for Moda charm pack. I don't remember where or how I got it, but I opened it up and really liked the washed out floral prints so I went on a hunt for more.
The only place I found with any of the fabric was Kammie LouLou. Honestly, I wasn't even sure what I was buying as the site only listed 'quantity'. I crossed my fingers that I was getting three yards of fabric and waited for the package to arrive. When I opened it, I had one yard each of three floral coordinates from the line: Aqua 'Fluffer Nutter'; Red 'Jelly' and Navy 'Picnic'. And, the red was 60" wide!
I wanted to do something simple with the charm pack so I googled around and settled on half-square triangles. I matched up all the charms and sewed 42 blocks. I then laid them out on my design wall in various 5x7 variations until I came up with one I liked.
I ended up with layout with a secondary diamond pattern off-center.
Since I had the most red, I added a 2" red floral border and then a 1.5" navy floral and then started trying out different border/backing combinations to finish off the quilt.
We are finishing up a 5 year project at work and I have been thinking of making something to commemorate the completion. I ended up making the small quilt below for one of my teammates. It came together really easily and I love how it turned out.
Back in April I was rummaging around looking for something else and came across this single PB&J by BasicGrey for Moda charm pack. I don't remember where or how I got it, but I opened it up and really liked the washed out floral prints so I went on a hunt for more.
The only place I found with any of the fabric was Kammie LouLou. Honestly, I wasn't even sure what I was buying as the site only listed 'quantity'. I crossed my fingers that I was getting three yards of fabric and waited for the package to arrive. When I opened it, I had one yard each of three floral coordinates from the line: Aqua 'Fluffer Nutter'; Red 'Jelly' and Navy 'Picnic'. And, the red was 60" wide!
I wanted to do something simple with the charm pack so I googled around and settled on half-square triangles. I matched up all the charms and sewed 42 blocks. I then laid them out on my design wall in various 5x7 variations until I came up with one I liked.
I ended up with layout with a secondary diamond pattern off-center.
Since I had the most red, I added a 2" red floral border and then a 1.5" navy floral and then started trying out different border/backing combinations to finish off the quilt.
A final 6" border of the red floral was added, the back was cut from the red floral and my mom quilted it for me using Hobbs Heirloom Fusible Crib Size.
She finished it up with the aqua floral binding and a custom tag by Border City Quilts on Etsy. And, she made a sweet pillowcase to go along with it!
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