Hi all! John here with this fortnight's installment of the Fat Quarterly Fabric Pack. I was SO EXCITED to work on this project, because mixing & matching fabrics is my absolute favorite part of the quilt-making process. For this fabric pack I teamed up with Cathy at Wish Upon a Quilt, whose large selection of great fabrics made it really difficult for me to decide on a 9-fabric bundle.
In fact, in my first pass I wound up with 25 fabrics in my bundle:
Greens & yellows comprise a fun, springtime garden-type mix, with touches of brown and red for some interest. But I knew a bundle of 25 fat quarters would be a tough thing for most quilters to commit to, so I began the process of winnowing it down ...
I first cut it down to 16:
Then 12:
And, finally, a more manageable bundle of 9 fat quarters:
This fabric assortment really got its hooks into my brain, and I just had to see it and play with it in person to make sure it "sung" before I recommended it to you all! So I drove over to Wish Upon a Quilt (it's my local shop!), picked up a bunch of fat quarters, and -- over the course of last Friday night and Saturday afternoon -- cut everything up into 8.5" squares and made a simple patchwork quilt.
And you know what? I LOVE it!!
Note: I did pick up cuts of all of the original 25 prints, plus a few extras and some prints I had in my stash.
So what do you think? Do you like my selection? If so, the fat quarter bundle is available here. Swing on over to Wish Upon a Quilt and tell Cathy I said "hi"!
I really love this combo. However, I see a little piece of Origins that got cut. :( Origins Grunge made it tho, right?
ReplyDeleteYeah -- TWO Origins grunge colors!
ReplyDeleteGreat picks! But I love the green butterflies in your first bundle the most. :)
ReplyDeletewow!! i love how you showed your editing process (now i know i'm not alone in my struggles!). thanks for this awesome post!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your selection journey. I like the flashes of red in the first 25. Wonderful combination as your quilt clearly demonstrates.
ReplyDeleteI love the fabrics you selected :o)
ReplyDeleteIs there any chance you could name them please? as I'm in the UK and would like to try and source them here... Thanks
I love how you showed your selection process! :) I just had to comment because I started to LOL when reading the part about how you just took a drive to your local quilt store, and over the course of a Friday night and Saturday afternoon, cut squares and sewed up a simple patchwork quilt. Um, yeah...okay...I so wish I could be THAT productive! Amaaaaazing!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing with us! :)
I am not good at this mixing of fabric prints and I LOVE all of these collections. At first I didn't think the red belonged but I see the red and brown there and how it coordinates. Love love love the collections. I need someone to do this for me all the time so I can get out of the one line of fabric rut (although I do love a full line of fabric being used.)
ReplyDeleteYou're much better at whittling than I am! :) Love the quilt...
ReplyDeleteLove the selection, and darn it, I was just over there on Friday! I loaded up on Castle Peeps to finish a quilt I'm making for my son. I love the quilt!
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