I’ve made a bit more progress on my Glimma quilt! This one has been a lot of fun to make. I didn’t really have a plan when I started on my flying geese. I loved the look of the Yarn Dyed Essex Linen in Black next to the fabric, but I decided to use Essex Linen in Flax for the main backdrop of the quilt. (I posted where you can buy the Essex Linen in here, as well as my flying geese paper piecing template.)

I improvisationally pieced the blocks from the top down. Literally – I started at the top left of the quilt and worked my way over and down like reading a book.

It’s all pin basted now and ready for me to quilt! Let’s see if I can get that done today.

New pillows for the couch have been on my to-do list since the beginning of Winter. I love my Autumn pillows, but I was ready to put them away until next year. When I saw Sarah Watt‘s Timber & Leaf collection for Blend Fabrics, I knew the natural designs and soft colors were perfect for my house. I mixed in Free Spirit Designer Solids in Pearl and Dogwood.

These two are my favorites!

I was inspired by Amy’s Indie Vibrations quilt. I really liked how her string blocks were paper pieced so they would line up, but still be different widths of fabric strips. I made two paper piecing templates, each are 6-1/2″ x 9-1/2″ unfinished. I used 3 of each template to form the 18″ square pillow.

You can buy the pattern for Amy’s Indie Vibrations quilt in her pattern shop.

I quilted the pillow with straight lines, about 1/2″ apart. The back is a simple envelope enclosure.

You can find Timber & Leaf at Moona Fabrics. Now to make another one for the other side of the couch!

Just a quick post to share what I’m working on today. I’ve finally found the time to cut into my Glimma charmpack! This fabric is the latest by designer Lotta Jansdotter for Windham Fabrics and will be available in April.

I’ve decided to pair it with Essex Linen Yarn Dyed in Black. I am loving the look! I’m using the flying geese paper piece templates I created for one of my autumn pillows a few months ago. You can download the template here.

You can find Essex Linen at the following shops:

Hopefully I’ll be back soon to show you the finished layout!

Merry Christmas Eve everyone! It’s the Art Gallery Fabrics Fat Quarter Gang time again. Today I’m excited to share my third project with you, the Tilt a Whirl Baby Quilt.

This baby quilt features fabrics from one of Art Gallery Fabrics newest designers, Sarah Watson. The fabric line is Luxe in Bloom and it is starting to arrive in shops now. It is absolutely stunning!

This quilt pattern is a simple paper pieced pattern. If you have never paper pieced before, no worries, I have a tutorial right here on my blog! The quilt goes together quickly and easily. I backed mine with minky making it perfect for keeping a special little girl warm this winter.

You can find the link to my new pattern on the Art Gallery blog.

As a celebration of the release of this *free* pattern for all of you, Art Gallery Fabrics is giving away a fat quarter set of each of the prints used in this quilt.

Top Row: LIB-8205 Extravagarden Bold, LIB-8206 Crystalline Reef, LIB-7205
Extravagarden Hush, LIB-7204 Flumes Citron
Bottom Row: LIB-7200 Marquise Azure, LIB-8204 Flumes Indigo, LIB-8208 Petite
Petalie Pearl, LIB-8207 Jeweled Peony Boreal

To enter, you just have to do a couple things.

My rules:
• Leave a comment on this post

Art Gallery’s rules:
• Follow Art Gallery on your favorite social media platform (Twitter, Pinterest, or Facebook) and Subscribe to the Art Gallery Fabrics blog.

I will pick a winner Friday evening, December 28th.

And don’t forget to add photos of your finished quilt to the Fat Quarter Gang Flickr Group. Happy sewing everyone!

+++ Closing comments to pick a winner! +++

The winner is #55, Linda! Congratulations Linda, I will email you for your address! Thank you for commenting everyone.