Bubbles
39” x 51”
Designed and made
by Heidi Pridemore
Quilted by Monica
Croom
This month’s project was
made using the GO! Local Color die #55452 and Atlas collection from Windham
Fabrics. The secret to this project to have a nice balance of values and this
group fit the bill. The Atlas collection has the perfect combination of light
blues, medium blues and dark blues for this lovely quilt. The GO! Local Color
die is great for cutting accurate curved pieces so the pieces of the quilt just
pop together.
For the project, I used a
fat quarter bundle of the Atlas collection from Windham Fabrics along with
bright white for the background. I found the instructions on the package for
the Local Color Die extremely helpful. So I recommend refering to these
instructions along with our free pattern to cut the listed number of pieces for
the project.
The pattern for this
month’s project is free from The Whimsical Workshop. You can download the free
pattern at www.TheWhimsicalWorkshop.com along with our past free patterns. We have also included traditional
cutting instructions for this project in the pattern too.
Next up is to lay out out the blocks. You
can treat this as a scrappy quilt and randomly laid out the blocks or you can
plan your top, if you decide to plan the quilt, I recommend a design wall to
help with this. I kept things organized by sewing all the light pieces to the
background pieces and all the medium blue pieces to the dark blue pieces.
Once you have your pieces cut out it is
time to start sewing curves. While most of the time I dread sewing curves, when
I know the pieces have been die cut, I stop worrying about it because the
pieces are so accurate and each piece has a little triangle that you can use to
align the pieces.
Above I show you how I aligned, pinned
and sewed the medium blue piece to the dark piece. Star by aligning the little
triangles on the two pieces and pin them together. Then I aligned each end and
pinned in place.
I recommend always putting the dark
blue piece on the bottom and curve the medium blue piece in place as you sew.
Next up is to sew one background piece
to each end of a light blue piece. Place the Light Blue piece on the bottom
when sewing.
Once you have all the Medium/Dark blue
units sewn and all the Light Blue/Background pieces sewn, it is time to sew the
two halves together. Sew with the Medium/Dark blue units on the bottom and ease
the Light Blue/Background piece in place. Just go slow and easy as you sew and
these pieces will just ease together to create the block.
Once the blocks are all sewn, it is
time to lay out the blocks. To create the illusion, make sure to match up the
Medium Blues on each block or light blues in each block. For my sample I also
matched the fabrics together.
We asked Monica our quilter to quilt
the top and she did an amazing job! She created a feeling of movement over the
quilt by quilting swirling circles. Hope you have as much fun with this easy
project to use up some of your pre-cut packs. As always please send along your projects to
us at info@thewhimsicalworkshop.com
and we can add you to our bragging rights page on our website.
Make
sure to visit my blog each month where I will share with you some tips and
tricks on cutting and assembling of the project of the month along with posting
the free pattern on our website The
Whimsical Workshop You can also see
our pattern and post at www.accuquilt.com
Until next time…..
Heidi
