52 Blocks in 52 Weeks

A fun, modern and funky sew-a-long by Jackie White and the Canadian Quilters Guild.  By combining each month with the colours issued from the 'rainbow scrap challenge', I  can use this very gorgeous, just had to come home with me, indulgent splurge of the Fat Quarter pack and the white tone-on-tone print.

I thought they looked very nice all stacked up, but when I opened the pack and laid them out - oh heavens above - a very pretty rainbow.  The fabric range is called "Dashwood Ditzies".  The white is a tone-on-tone from Robert Kaufman.

The blocks are very different and far more modern than I would normally make, but they were super fun to construct.

January 2109

February 2019

March 2019

April 2019

May 2019

June 2019

I had never kept up with challenges before, but this one had me eagerly awaiting the pattern downloads each week.  Such addictive blocks to make.

July 2019

August 2019

September 2019 - oops, no photo!

October 2019

November 2019

December 2019

January 2020

During December the decision was made by the Organiser to have 54 blocks for a more even quilt layout.  I added 2 extra blocks to have 56 for a 7x8 block layout.  It's truly wonderful to have been pushed into making something so modern and not at all like anything else I've ever made.  I am certain that there are more 'modern' quilts in my quilting future.

For more quilts made using these same blocks, click here, where you can see the wonderful work by other quilters as well.  So much fun and so many setting ideas.  I truly enjoyed being pushed out of my comfort zone to try something new.

5in Squares become a Chandelier!

Starting with 2 very pretty packs of 5in Charm Squares, a pretty piece of grey fabric and a quest to try out a 'new to me' pattern, lead to this super fun quilt to make.  

The charm squares and background fabric. 
The pink fabric was later put away and not used.

The thing with Charm Square packs is that they are so pretty and gorgeous range of colours when you look at them side on.  

Such a pretty rainbow when viewed side on.

A nice, quick quilt to make, with easy cutting and chain piecing, I had the top together in no-time at all.  Since making this quilt, I have ordered 2 more charm square packs to make another one.  I just can't help myself!

A peek of the backing onto the front.

As each block only used 1.5 of each 5in square, I joined the rest of the pieces together to make a fun panel to put into the backing.  This is part of my goal to use all of the fabric in each quilt I make instead of accumulating left over scraps.

Left over pieces pieced together to make the back more interesting.

I quilted this quilt on my DSM with an all over surf-curl wave pattern, using 50wt variegated thread.  Super easy to quilt and no tension issues.  I'm pretty proud of the quilting on this one.

The finished quilt!  49in x 72in

We were having issues with the very sunny day and so the photo had to be taken under the verandah to stop it from being too blown out with the light.  An interesting quilt and a bit of break away from my 'usual' colour choices.






Chandelier Beads pattern can be found here.  I changed the pattern sizes to use 5in squares.