A Saturday Morning Quilt “Jaunt”

Quilts have a way of staying in style, over the year, just like fun words. Take “jaunt” for instance. How could a short pleasurable excursion ever go out of style? 🙂

Since I was the only one in my household up earlier this morning, when my mom texted me and said, “Do you still want to go out to the quilt shops?”, I didn’t have to think twice. Lets go! We visited two of our local quilt shops, Harper’s Fabrics and Quilted Memories, took in the scents of Penzy’s Spices and then finished off at the Overland Park Farmer’s Market. My family will enjoy the lovely cinnamon rolls I brought home for a treat.

I was mostly good, but picked up a stack of solids for my latest kid quilt, Minecraft, and one of the rows from this years row-by-row. I thought Quilted Memories lemonade row might make a fun summer wall hanging.

Creeper is completed, but now I need to begin laying out some of the other characters. The Minecraft quilt is made of 100% solid colors with pixel based art. My inspiration came from pinterest. Sorry, I can’t post a pattern here…

Selecting Coordinating Solids – Online, sight unseen!

Have you ever found a perfect collection of yardage fabric, fat quarters or other precut and dreaded the process of taking them to the fabric store to find all of the coordinating solids? (That’s me every time!)

I always see questions on quilting forums wondering what fabrics match certain lines. For my latest project, Curve it Up, I decided to try out the Moda Palette Builder site. I am in love! I order most of my fabrics and supplies online as it leaves my spare time outside of work for my real hobby, sewing and quilting (not shopping)! I am color challenged, and can use all the help I can get.

Step 1: Take photos of your print fabrics, either one at a time, or simply copy an image from a seller or manufacturer that shows the fabric or the whole line!

I purchased this line from Missouri Star Quilt Company!

True Colors – Anna Maria Horner Fat Quarter Bundle
by Anna Maria Horner for Free Spirit Fabrics

Step 2: Check out this site and upload your fabric image(s), and follow their directions.

http://blog.modafabrics.com/palette-builder/

Move the white circles around your fabrics to select the colors you are interested in pulling out. I know that I have enough fat quarters to use in two quilts, so I orders enough solids to coordinate as well. (These are not my final color images, so the words are blurred, as this is not exactly what I ordered) I am happy to share what I did order if you are interested.

When working with an entire collection of prints at once, I found it difficult to pick the smaller areas, but zooming in on my browser helped.

You can add additional colors (up to 9) to your selection by clicking the green (+) box. This adds additional circles that you can move around. DO tweak the shade selection until the “Bella Solids Shade” looks like it represents your fabric.

I spent some time doing this, and ordered quite a few 1/2 yard solids. I was very happy with the outcome! What do you think? I will be using these prints and solids for the upcoming quilt along.

Step 3: Order your fabrics with confidence!

I think that the only fabrics that was not quite right was my white background. There are so many shades of white, I wished that I had selected a slightly more off white fabric for this line of fabric. I ordered the Bella Solids – Off White Yardage, and could have gone just slightly more to the cream side. I will have to pick up some fabric color cards one of these days. (one for the wish list). However, I’m going to go with it and see how it turns out!

Curve It Up – BOM – (Coming Soon!)

This quilt pattern, “Curve it Up” by Sew Kind of Wonderful was gifted to me along with the “Quick Curve Ruler” . Over the next year, I plan to post information about the quilt construction and use of the curve it up ruler. Come learn with me!

Here are my plans:

Blog 1 – Curve it Up: Pick your fabrics! – Overview of Moda Palette Builder
Blog 2 – Block 1
Blog 3 – Block 2
etc.

Let me know if there is anything else you want to see! I’m new to blogging and don’t know what others would like to see yet.