A quick post to announce that I'm going to be playing with fun fabrics as part of Kate Basti's The Summer Book Club QAL.
Making more book blocks
I'm thrilled to have found out about The Summer Book Club QAL on Instagram. It uses one of my favourite foundation paper piecing blocks - the Tall Tales Quilt Block. Kate Basti has designed the block and it can be purchased on her Etsy shop (links in Related links below). The pattern is only $1, and she's donating all of her sales of the pattern to the Ronald McDonald House Charities until the end of 2022.
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| The Summer Book Club QAL on Instagram with Kate Basti (@katebasti) |
I made a few of these blocks as minis in 2019 (feels like so long ago!). I've always wanted to make a quilt of them, since they look amazing on Instagram (#so this is my chance. The block sews up easily and is great for featuring beautiful fabric.
- Week 1: Decide Your Project & Pull Your Fabric
- Week 2–7: Make Tall Tales Blocks
- Week 8: Assemble Your Project
Week 1: post (an) image(s) of our fabric on Instagram. Here is my fabric pull. As you can see I have lots of choices. I'll be choosing as I go along. I'll be using a variety of solid colours for the book borders.
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| Critters fabrics - some of my absolute favourites |
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| Misc. fabrics, from cute to books to everything else |
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| Travel fabrics |
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| Solids for the block borders |
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| More solids |
Here are the blocks that I've made. I love that I can add so much to these book covers. Some have appliqué while another is mostly free motion quilted (FMQ).
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| Paddington book mini for my daughter of course! for the Nifty Novelties Blog Hop |
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| "The Earth is not flat" book for my son during the Summer Book Club QAL of 2019 |
And a few mini book blocks for my colleagues!
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| Mon jardin with FMQ |
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| A Fantastical Book Block with appliqué |
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| Bambi book, also made during the Summer Book Club QAL of 2019 |
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My goal this month is to make 10 blocks for the Summer Book Club QAL. I'll report back here at the end of the month (or before if I need to
What I learned
- I love this versatile block and hope to be inspired to make a whole quilt of it.
- I'm hoping to use a few techniques, but since it will be a quilt, I won't be adding embellishment (I think!)
- Ten blocks may be ambitious but I really want to give myself the opportunity to play!
- Summer Book Club Quilt-Along
- Kate Basti on Instagram
Summer Book Club QAL of 2019 - Tall Tales pattern
- Posts using the Tall Tales pattern
- Nifty Novelties Blog Hop at Free Motion Mavericks, October 24, 2019
- Fantastical book block on Free Motion Mavericks, October 10, 2019
- Book covers with Free Motion Mavericks, September 25, 2019
What a fun SAL!!! You've got some great fabrics to pick from, too, Andree!!! Of the ones you made previously my fav is definitely Paddington, having read all those books to our children!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Nancy, I'm really looking forward to starting. I've now written my Free Motion Mavericks post, so I can make at least one book block by the end of the week :-)
DeleteHello Andrée, a books quilt would be absolutely amazing! It must be so tempting to start a big project.
ReplyDeleteThat Suchard fabric is lovely. So is the chocolate.
Thank you for linking up!
Love, Muv
Hi Muv, it's really tempting to start another big project, even if I have other things that I should do... Hope you're enjoying the garden :-)
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