Their color palette is created from everyday life experiences to enhance the piece they are creating whether it is a painting, drawing, sculpture or a quilt. You can also let me know if you have any other questions, by leaving me a note in the comments.Ask a room of artists, “Where do you find your inspiration?” and most likely the answer will be “Everywhere!”Īrtists and quilters find inspiration in bricks, walls, carpet and plants. Please let it in the comments or post to Instagram using the #letitsnowqal hashtag. I would love to hear what your choice is going to be. I hope that gives you a few ideas for selecting fabric. You might also consider doing your trees in one solid fabric with different low volume prints for the background. It’s called Juniper Berry by Basic Grey for Moda fabrics.ĥ. This fabric line is coming out later this spring. I would also love to see this pattern done with a red background. Perfect! This print is called “Sprinkle” from the Cotton and Steel basics collection.Ĥ. This one has white dots that look like falling snow. I would love to see this pattern done with a blue background. This color is graphite and is one of my favorite backgrounds to work with lately.ģ. The same fabrics on Essex Linen by Robert Kauffman. (It might be a good idea to use a darker background like this if your Layer Cake has a lot of white prints in it.)Ģ. Using black Moda Crossweave and The Cookie Exchange fabric by Sweetwater.I took pictures so you can see the process that I go through to select fabrics. I am playing around with a few ideas and auditioning them. I haven’t quite decided on my fabrics yet. Keep in mind that your runner won’t be as scrappy as mine unless you follow the option for making both the runner and wall quilt OR the option using the strips. If you are making the quilt and the runner, you will need a total of 32 – 10” squares. You could also use 10 – 5” xġ0” rectangles or 19 – 1 ½”-3” x 10” strips.īinding: ⅓ yard or ½ yard if cutting on the bias I used my leftovers from this quilt to make the runner that I shared last week.įabric Requirements for the projects are: The Wall Quilt: Colored Prints: 27 – 10″ squares for the trees, house, borders and stars Background: 1 ¾ yards Brown: ¼ yard for tree trunks Binding: ½ yard Backing and Batting: 50″ x 57″ A fusible product and thread for the applique is also requiredĬolored Prints: A minimum of 5 – 10” squares for the trees. I also changed up the border on this one by adding the checkerboard, instead of the scrappy strips. I threw in a couple plaids and chevrons, just to add some fun texture. The last big quilt is done with a lot of Christmas prints that were designed by Kate Spain. The second option features Holly’s Tree Farm by Sweetwater, also for Moda fabrics. The original quilt is made using Evergreen by Basic Grey for Moda fabrics. I will give all of us until next Tuesday to get this done and then I will share some hints on cutting. After you have looked at the quilts, then you can raid your stash or visit your favorite quilt shop and put together your fabrics. I have made 3 of the large quilt that I can share with you. You can click here to download a new file.įirst, let’s talk about fabric selection. If you didn’t already get that, please email me at Edit: For those of you who already got this file, I have updated it as of 1-27-16. Those that emailed or commented to join in, should have gotten an email with the info on the runner option. Please share! It’s always fun to see what others are working on. You could also post your progress to my Facebook page here. If you would like a great mini tutorial on using Instagram, Cindy Lammon has a good one on her blog here. If you want to get email updates on the QAL, you can sign up to follow my blog using the tab on the right sidebar. Every week I will post a little more info so you will have something to work on over the next week/weekend. Click here to read the first post about the QAL. Our Project is the “Let It Snow quilt and/or runner from my Angles With Ease 2 book. I heard from many of you, that a QAL is just the thing to get you motivated and back into the sewing room! The Quilt Along is definitely a go! Thanks to everyone who is joining in.
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