Washi Tape Phone Cover from Zakka Life.
Handmade Clay Pots from Claire of Fellow Fellow for Say Yes to Hoboken.
Liberty Handkerchiefs from The Purl Bee.
Piñata Cookies from She Knows.
Upcycled Storage Bin from A Little Hut.
Kaleidoscope Quilt from Made with Love for Riley Blake Designs.
DIY Plant Wraps from Camille Styles.
Pintuck Pleated Pillow from Imagine Gnats for Stumbles & Stitches.
It is Monday and I am posting a tutorial. I know I haven’t done a Make it Monday post in quite some time! I made these blocks last week using my new Quilt Blocks collection and thought I’d share quick instructions. So I made a quilt block using Quilt Blocks. How meta. Tomorrow I’ll show you how to make glue using glue. Ha!
Anyway, this makes a 16″ finished block and you can easily use a pre-cut jelly roll since the strips are all 2 1/2″. You can download the .pdf instructions by clicking on the image below. I gave you the cutting measurements, plus some quick illustrations that will get you started. After you’ve made the first square, you just keep going, Log Cabin style.
Click here for a list of shops that are now shipping the Quilt Blocks fabric.
Oh, and here’s how it might look all together, if you made every block the same. The stars print that stands out so well in the image above comes in five colorways and I plan to make a quilt from four of the five colors, making each block the same. So you’ll see that next year!
Congratulations to #65, Kristie! She’s the winner of Sewing MODKID Style. Thanks to everyone who entered!
Attention handmade shop owners: I have a challenge for you! I’d love to see what you make from my new Quilt Blocks collection for Moda, so I am proposing a challenge. You are eligible for this challenge if you have an online shop, a local handmade shop, or if you sell locally at craft fairs. Here are the simple rules:
1) Make something with my Quilt Blocks fabric for your shop. It can incorporate any of the prints, alone or combined with solids.
2) Post a photo to the Quilt Blocks Flickr group here and add the tag “QuiltBlocksShopChallenge”.
I will pick my three favorites and each handmade artist will be featured on The Long Thread with a dedicated post profiling the shop owner and the shop. You will also receive three months of free advertising over there in the sidebar. PLUS five yards of Quilt Blocks fabric! So get started making stuff!
I’ll be accepting entries through the end of May. Can’t wait to see what you make! And those of you who make things for fun and don’t have a shop, I want to see your creations too. Be sure to add your photos to the Flickr photo pool as well. Thanks!
Here’s a post with the list of fabric shops carrying the fabric. I know that the Fat Quarter Shop has it in stock and ready to ship!
I don’t often post photos of our house because it always seems like a work in progress. But you can take a peek over at Stumbles and Stitches as part of their Feather Your Nest series. Things I did not show in these photos: pile of stuff that needs to be sorted at top of the stairs, the giant, teetering stack of papers and books on my desk, dust in various spots, tangle of cords from my husband’s eight million routers, pee-stained closet carpet from months of sometimes unsuccessful dog training, and the stack of things to be donated that has been blocking the pathway to my closet for months now. Just so you know.
