A {Tiny} Stitch in Color

Earlier this Fall, I was lucky enough to received some fabric from Quilt Market from my friend Katie. I had done some graphic work for her and as a "thank you" she really spoiled me with a Fat Quarter set of Echo by Lotta Jansdotter as well as a little sample charm pack of Malka Dubrawsky's upcoming fabric line for Moda, A Stitch in Color. I saw a bit of this fabric in person at Malka's Improvisation Piecing class from the summer, and I've been excited about it every since.

I'm not sure if you have ever seen these little sample charm packs, but the squares are 2.5". I knew I wanted to showcase the bold prints in this line, so I decided to make a simple patchwork quilt with several shades of off-white and tan from my fabric stash. This is another project that I thought I would finish in a couple hours but sewing 200+ tiny squares together accurately actually took longer than I thought!

For the quilting, I wanted to do something a bit in contrast to the horizontal and vertical rows and columns, so I decided to first quilt a diagonal line through all the squares. Then I added two more diagonal lines in the resulting empty diagonal sections, leaving every other section empty. I am thinking about hanging this on a tan wall in my house, so I bound it in off-white so it would not blend into the wall.

I went to the Arboretum again today for my photos. Winter is really taking it's time to show up here in Chicago. I know I shouldn't complain because a couple months from now I will be SO ready to be done with the cold and snow, but I will miss having a white Christmas if it doesn't start snowing soon.