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Mill City – Finished

April 10, 2024UncategorizedCotton + Steel Fabric, Cotton and Steel Fabric, Ohio Star Quilt Block, Scrap Quilt, Star Quilt, Tula PinkBrooklyn Quilting Co.

My quest to turn my stack of quilt tops into actual finished quilts continues! I’ve made some good progress the last couple of years and I can check another one off the list with my finished Mill City quilt.

I made this quilt top back in 2017 and shared it at the beginning of 2018. As I’ve said before, some quilts take longer than others. LOL

Every time I pull one of these quilt tops out that I haven’t seen in a while I ask myself, “do I still like this?” The answer for this one is a definite yes.

I still really like the colors and pattern, which is quite simple with a combo of Ohio Star blocks and nine patch squares. This is a scrap quilt but it’s mostly original Cotton + Steel fabric.

BTW, this next picture makes me laugh. It looks like no one is holding the quilt!

The back of this quilt uses a large piece of the much-loved Fairy Dust fabric from Tula Pink’s True Colors collection.

My last blog post was about quilt backs and I mentioned the lack of good extra wide fabric available on the market. The good news is this fabric is available in extra wide. The piece I used obviously is not, as I had to piece the back together, but FYI in case you like it. I believe there are other colorways available, too.

I think I have 2-3 more old(er) quilt tops left to finish. To be clear I do have more that that, but the others are from the last year+ so I don’t count those. They’re practically new!

As always, thanks for reading. I’ll be back here again soon talking quilts.

Rafter – Finished

January 10, 2022UncategorizedScrap Quilt, Tula Pink, Vintage SheetBrooklyn Quilting Co.

My first quilt share of 2022! I had planned on getting this up last week but it was a little busy around here. Coco, my puppy, was spayed last week and it’s been a rough few days taking care of her. Poor baby. She has so much energy and is used to getting two walks a day, so having to take it easy with little activity so she can heal has been very difficult for both of us. She’s on the mend and fingers crossed her cone can come off at the end of the week.

But back to the quilt.

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I think it’s fitting that I share this quilt given that it has Tula Pink Fairy Dust fabric in purple, which also happens to be very similar to the Pantone Color of the Year, Very Peri. Who knew I was on trend when I first made this quilt in 2020!

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Besides the Tula Pink fabric, all of the other fabric in this quilt is scrap fabric.

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As you can see, I put this together in rainbow color order. I swear by putting random scraps together in color order and then they’ll all work. Whether you have grass greens, olive greens, or hunter greens, if you group all of your colors together and put them in a rainbow they always seem to look good.

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The back of this quilt is a vintage sheet.

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It was a fitted sheet, and if you’ve ever taken the elastic out of a fitted sheet you know the top and bottom of the sheet is a little misshaped from the elastic. It wasn’t quite large enough for the quilt so I had to add the pink. I had a small piece of floral sheet left so I added that but I had to use the pink to make it work.

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That’s a wrap for this quilt and my first blog post of 2022.

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Here’s to a great year ahead and many days of quilting.

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July 13, 2020UncategorizedRainbow Quilt, Scrap Quilt, Tula PinkBrooklyn Quilting Co.

Sometimes I have a quilt idea in my head and I miraculously manage to execute it exactly how I was thinking, without making adjustments along the way. This is one of those times. It took some planning but I did it.

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This quilt utilizes two of my favorite things: rainbow colors and scraps. Yes, your read that right, this is actually a scrap quilt.

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Every piece of fabric, minus the purple Tula Pink Fairy Dust fabric, is all scraps.

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I think many of us quilters have white fabric laying around, and then it was only a matter of digging through my scrap bag to pull ROYGBIV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet) colors to get the rainbow look. This is why I save small scraps! For projects like this. Plus, I hate wasting fabric so I always have a healthy scrap bag ready to go.

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I am planning to write a whole blog post about my scrap quilting process, which I kinda take pride in because I have a philosophy of leaving no scrap behind. That blog post is coming in the near future, but back to this quilt.

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The only fabric I had to buy was the Tula Pink Fairy Dust, which I wanted to get anyway. From the minute I saw it I knew I had to have it, and I think it is perfect for this quilt.

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Tula has since come out with more color options for Fairy Dust, and so many of them would work, but I’m partial to the purple.

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With all of the colors happening on the front, I need to start thinking about the back. Not sure which direction I’m going to go yet, but I feel like it needs to be Tula on the back as well. Thoughts?

Tula Pink City Sampler

October 16, 2017UncategorizedDenyse Schmidt Fabric, Tula Pink, Tula Pink City SamplerBrooklyn Quilting Co.

Well, I did it. I couldn’t hold back any longer. After more than a year of admiring Tula Pink City Sampler quilts on Instagram, I finally jumped on board and made one of my own. And oh am I glad I did.

You all know that I’m not much of a quilt pattern person. I tend to do my own thing rather than follow a pattern, but the City Sampler quilt was just too good to pass up.

Besides it obviously being beautiful, it’s also an amazing scrap buster, and I am all about making scrap-busting quilts. With 100 blocks and multiple fabrics required for many of those blocks, there’s an opportunity to use up a lot of scraps. Huzzah!

My version of the Tula Pink City Sampler uses all Denyse Schmidt fabric. Why? Because I have a lot of DS fabric. A lot. I would guess that at least half of my stash is Denyse Schmidt. I’ve got big pieces, little pieces and everything in between. I knew that I would have more than enough DS fabric just using scraps to make this quilt, so that’s what I did.

Not only are all the blocks DS fabric, but I wanted to make all 100 blocks using different fabrics for each block. I managed to do that except for one yellow fabric I accidently used twice. Oops! Otherwise none of the fabrics repeat.

One thing you will notice is that I didn’t do the white sashing between blocks. If you have the book you know there are a few different versions of the quilt you can make, but probably the most common one you see is with the white sashing.

I chose not to add it because I thought I would like it better without, but I think it looks great either way.

The back of this quilt is also scrappy and uses two large pieces of Denyse Schmidt fabric and that great olive green floral print from Amy Butler. I thought it went so well with the quilt that I just had to use it.

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Scrappy blocks on the front and a scrappy quilt back is all my fabric busting quilt dreams come true. All in one project!

So, I can’t finish this blog post without telling you who this quilt is for, which is the most important part of this story. It’s for my BFF who got married over the weekend! Yea!

This quilt was my wedding gift to my best friend since we were 13-years-old, Sara, and her husband Brian. I finished the quilt a couple of months ago and I’ve had it tucked away just waiting for Sara and Brian’s wedding. I didn’t even share any of the blocks on Instagram while I was making it because I knew Sara would see them and I didn’t want to give her any ideas that it could be her wedding gift.

It was so hard not to share it and I’m very happy the quilt is no longer in hiding and is now in its new home in Minneapolis. Congrats Sara and Brian!