Month: July 2024

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Week 3 – Orchard in Bloom Quilt Along – Make Corner Units

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It’s week 3 of the Orchard in Bloom Quilt Along! This week we will be making all of the corner units for our blocks.

Since I’m making the scrappy using Fat Quarter version, I’ve decided which 2 main colors I’d like to go to get for the corner units. After I make these, I’ll decide what other fabric’s I want to mix in or, I may just keep my block 2 main colors with the background fabric.

Here are my fabrics cut and ready to start piecing!

QUILT ALONG SCHEDULE:
July 16th – Week 1 – Grab the pattern and pick out your fabrics
July 23rd – Week 2 – Cut your pieces
THIS WEEK – July 30th – Week 3 – Make Corner Units
August 6th – Week 4 – Make Diamond in Rectangle Units
August 13th – Week 5 – Sew the blocks
August 20th – Week 6 – Finish our quilts!

JOIN ME – I will be filming this week’s LIVE video at 7 am PDT in the Facebook Quilt along group.

If you can’t watch it LIVE it will be saved to the group and uploaded to my YouTube channel.

SHARE YOUR PROGRESS PHOTOS:
Join my Facebook group and post your weekly progress photos
OR post your photos on Instagram with the hashtag #OrchardInBloomQAL or Tag me in your photo!

I’m excited to see your quilts come together!

Happy Quilting!
Andrea

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Week 2 – Orchard in Bloom Quilt Along – Cut your pieces

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It’s week 2 of the Orchard in Bloom Quilt Along! This week we will be cutting all our pieces for our blocks.

I prefer to cut all my pieces, make my units and then construct my blocks. If you prefer to work on one block at a time, feel free to do so.

I am using fat quarters and (1) 1/4 yard cut. The pattern has suggested cutting layouts for these sizes of fabric. I will be making the lap quilt, it has 12 blocks, so I have (12) Fat quarters/1/4 yard cuts.

QUILT ALONG SCHEDULE:
July 16th – Week 1 – Grab the pattern and pick out your fabrics
July 23rd – Week 2 – Cut your pieces
July 30th – Week 3 – Make Corner Units
August 6th – Week 4 – Make Diamond in Rectangle Units
August 13th – Week 5 – Sew the blocks
August 20th – Week 6 – Finish our quilts!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Join my Facebook group and post your weekly progress photos
OR post your photos on Instagram with the hashtag #OrchardInBloomQAL or Tag me in your photo!

Grab the pattern and choose what size you’d like to make.
The pattern includes instructions for:  Baby (48 x 48 in), Lap (48 x 64 in), Throw (64 x 80 in), Full (80 x 96 in), Queen (96 x 112 in) and King (112 x 112 in).

Each week I will film a LIVE video in the Facebook Quilt Along group. If you can’t watch it LIVE it will be saved to the group and uploaded to my YouTube channel.

JOIN ME – I will be filming this week’s LIVE video at 7 am PDT in the Facebook Quilt along group.

I am so excited to see your version of this quilt!
Andrea

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Week 1 – Orchard in Bloom Quilt Along – Grab the pattern and pick your fabrics

It’s Week 1 of quilt along! This week we will be getting our patterns and picking out our fabrics!
The pattern will be 20% OFF through July 23rd.

PURCHASE THE PATTERN HERE:
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The fabrics I’m using are:
Main Fabrics:
Art Gallery Fabrics – Floral Pigments – Wet
Riley Blake Design – Grl Pwr Sparkle – Fuchsia
Art Gallery Fabrics – Garden Path – Light
Riley Blake Design – Grl Pwr Dots – Yellow
Art Gallery Fabrics – Breezy Blossoms in Lemonade
Riley Blake Design – Grl Pwr Dots – Blue
Riley Blake Design – Bloom Babe – White
FIGO Fabrics – Midsommar Ditsy Flower Dots – Dark Purple
FreeSpirit Fabrics – Picky – Blue
FIGO Fabrics – Squeeze Floral – Orange
Riley Blake Design – Bloom Babe – Eggplant
Riley Blake Design – Grl Pwr Grid – Yellow
Background: Riley Blake Design – White Swiss Dots – Aqua

I’m still trying to decide If I want to go super scrappy or 2 colors with the background for each block.

QUILT ALONG SCHEDULE:
NOW – Grab the pattern and pick out your fabrics
July 23rd – Week 2 – Cut your pieces
July 30th – Week 3 – Make Corner Units
August 6th – Week 4 – Make Diamond in Rectangle Units
August 13th – Week 5 – Sew the blocks
August 20th – Week 6 – Finish our quilts!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Join my Facebook group and post your weekly progress photos
OR post your photos on Instagram with the hashtag #OrchardInBloomQAL or Tag me in your photo!

Grab the pattern and choose what size you’d like to make.
The pattern includes instructions for:  Baby (48 x 48 in), Lap (48 x 64 in), Throw (64 x 80 in), Full (80 x 96 in), Queen (96 x 112 in) and King (112 x 112 in).

Each week I will film a LIVE video in the Facebook Quilt Along group. If you can’t watch it LIVE it will be saved to the group and uploaded to my YouTube channel.

I am so excited to see your version of this quilt!
Andrea

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Orchard In Bloom Quilt Pattern and Quilt Along!

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Last September we bought a house that has an orchard! We have 65 fruit/nut trees altogether. The previous owners planted so many different varieties of flowers around the yard too. I love being surprised with new flowers blooming. The many colors of spring flower in our yard ‘The Orchard’ inspired me to make this scrappy, colorful flower quilt!

This pattern is a 16-inch block quilt. So, if you want a larger quilt, you just make more blocks.

The pattern comes with directions for a Baby, Lap, Throw, Full, Queen and King size quilt.

Construction options:
4 main colors with a background fabric
Fat quarters/1/4 yard cuts (the pattern has cutting suggestion diagrams)
Or Super duper scrappy, you can make every block with different fabrics.

I pulled fabrics from my bins, I only had to buy the background fabric for my pattern cover quilt, which is Riley Blake Designs – Le Creme Swiss Dot in Aqua from Stash Fabrics.
When I buy Kona cottons I like to buy a little extra each time. So, I found all of these in my fabric bins. A-D: All Kona Cottons – Prussian, Cadet, Pool, Robin’s Egg, Sangria, Sassy Pink, Med Pink, Mulberry, and Grapemist.
I also had the backing fabric, which is this beautiful Moda by Gingiber – Dwell in Possibility – Full Bloom

JOIN me for a quick quilt along!
Summer Break is speeding by, I only have 7 weeks left until I go back to work.
I really want to make a lap size quilt using a bunch of floral fabrics I purchased a few years ago. So, I thought if you’d like to join me, we can encourage each other to sew this beauty up!

QUILT ALONG SCHEDULE:
NOW – Grab the pattern and pick out your fabrics
July 23rd – Week 2 – Cut your pieces
July 30th – Week 3 – Make Corner Units
August 6th – Week 4 – Make Diamond in Rectangle Units
August 13th – Week 5 – Sew the blocks
August 20th – Week 6 – Finish our quilts!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Join my Facebook group and post your weekly progress photos
OR post your photos on Instagram with the hashtag #OrchardInBloomQAL or Tag me in your photo!

Grab the pattern and choose what size you’d like to make.
The pattern includes instructions for:  Baby (48 x 48 in), Lap (48 x 64 in), Throw (64 x 80 in), Full (80 x 96 in), Queen (96 x 112 in) and King (112 x 112 in).

Each week I will film a LIVE video in the Facebook Quilt Along group. If you can’t watch it LIVE it will be saved to the group and uploaded to my YouTube channel.

You can check out all my awesome tester’s versions down below!

I am so excited to see your version of this quilt!
Andrea

Check out the beautiful quilts made by my awesome testers!!