Sunday, February 20, 2011

Fat Quarterly Fabric Pack

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:

Fat Quarterly Fabric Pack

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:

Fat Quarterly Fabric Pack

Then 12:

Fat Quarterly Fabric Pack

And, finally, a more manageable bundle of 9 fat quarters:

Fat Quarterly Fabric Pack

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!!

Patchwork Quilt

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.

Patchwork Quilt

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"!

10 comments:

  1. I really love this combo. However, I see a little piece of Origins that got cut. :( Origins Grunge made it tho, right?

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  2. Yeah -- TWO Origins grunge colors!

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  3. Great picks! But I love the green butterflies in your first bundle the most. :)

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  4. wow!! i love how you showed your editing process (now i know i'm not alone in my struggles!). thanks for this awesome post!

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  5. Thanks for sharing your selection journey. I like the flashes of red in the first 25. Wonderful combination as your quilt clearly demonstrates.

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  6. I love the fabrics you selected :o)
    Is there any chance you could name them please? as I'm in the UK and would like to try and source them here... Thanks

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  7. 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!!!!!!!!!

    Thanks so much for sharing with us! :)

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  8. 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.)

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  9. You're much better at whittling than I am! :) Love the quilt...

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  10. Love 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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