It is time for me to announce the next Quilt Along that I’ll be running via my blog.  This past year I once again fell in love with Quilt Alongs.  It’s been a great way for me to use up my scrap stash and I’m having lots of fun learning new techniques and honing the ones I’m not very good at yet.  I’m going to keep the theme of this years Quilt Along pretty simple.  In fact it’s simply going to be called:

“My Favorite Block Quilt Along”

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Which means – I’m recruiting 19 block designers to volunteer to post a tutorial on their favorite quilt block.  I can either link to your blog post from mine or you can send me the info and I can blog it for you if you don’t have a blog. Your block can be pieced, appliqued,  paper pieced or using templates. All I request is that they are not the same block as another designer picks.  Once you sign up for a date let me know the name of the quilt block you’ll be demonstrating – first come first serve.  If it’s one you came up with yourself – even better.  Just tell me ‘Original Block’ and we’ll go into more details when it’s time for your tutorial.

The other twist to this quilt along is that I want the dimensions of the blocks given in both 12.5” block sizes AND 6.5” sizes.  We’ll be doing this so participants can decide if they want to do one 12.5” blocks or 4 6.5” blocks.  Once all the tutorials are up everyone will still have 20 blocks to make a quilt top with but added ‘dimension’ if they choose to do one or ten of the blocks in the 4 6.5” options.  Throughout the quilt along I’ll also show you some options if you would rather do one 6.5” and then add around it in other ways to make your block 12.5”.

My Favorite Block Quilt Along Schedule:

I’ll be posting two block tutorials during the ‘off weeks’ of Project QUILTING.  Once Project QUILTING is done I’ll be posting two a week every week.

Block 1: Tuesday, January 15th – Diane from Lapacek’s Orchard

Block 2: Thursday, January 17th – Amy from Amy’s Creative Side

Block 3: Tuesday, January 29th – I’m A Ginger Monkey with the Churn Dash Block

Block 4: Thursday, January 31st – Pamela of PamelaQuilts

Block 5: Tuesday, February 12th – Bea from Bea Quilter

Block 6: Thursday, February 14th – Pam of For Quilts Sake with a Heart Block

Block 7: Tuesday, February 26th – Karen from Little Birdie Quilting with a Leaf block

Block 8: Thursday, February 28th – Shanna of Fiber of All Sorts

Block 9: Tuesday, March 12th – Kim of Persimon Dreams

Block 10: Thursday, March 14th – Shannon of Fabrics N Quilts with an original block

Block 11:  Tuesday, March 26th – Mishka of Quilting Gallery

Block 12: Thursday, March 28th – Jane of Quilt Jane with an original block

Block 13: Tuesday, April 2nd – Shelly of Prairie Moon Quilts with Missouri Star Block

Block 14: Thursday, April 4th – Soma of Whims and Fancies

Block 15: Tuesday, April 9th – Kym of FabricFascination

Block 16: Thursday, April 11th – Dawn of Spring Water Designs

Block 17: Tuesday, April 16th – Laurie

Block 18: Thursday, April 18th – Sara of Army Quilting with a Yankee Puzzle Block

Block 19: Tuesday, April 23rd –  Pat Sloan, The Voice of Quilting with an original applique block

Block 20: Thursday, April 25th – Melissa of Sew Bittersweet Designs

 

Above is a picture of the ‘Christmas in July Block-A-Thon’ that I designed a block for and participated in this year.  Each designer chose a different size block and then we were given a layout for putting them all together.  I love the piece-y crazy modern-ess of this quilt and I hope to achieve the same type of effect with this ‘Favorite Block Quilt Along’ but hopefully with less final construction directions (not that they were hard to follow).

These are the blocks from the CRAFTSY BOM I participated in earlier this year.  I intend on adding some fun pieced sashing to help bring these 20 blocks together cohesively.  The Home Sweet Home Quilt Along from earlier this year included 49 pieced sashings to help bring a cohesiveness to the qulit.

And finally – here is the BOM Quilt Along that I’m working on now.  Here I am creating 8.5 inch blocks from multiple quilt-alongs, using only my scrap fabric, and combining them all to create this funtastic, scrappy look.

***Thank you to all of our block design volunteers!  We are full up and now it’s time to just get excited about the Quilt Along!  Grab the button at the bottom of this post and help me spread the word about the fun!

Hopefully this quilt along sounds like as much fun to you as it does to me!  If you want to be a block designer for the project please email me at:  lapaceksorchard {at} gmail {dot} com with the date you want and the name of the block you want to make a tutorial for.   It’s going to be completely on a first come first serve basis.  I’ll be editing this post as often as I can to show which dates and blocks are taken.

 

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