Red and White Clementine Quilt Along Block 1

My Red and White Clementine

I am sewing along to make this beautiful quilt!



I love this pattern!

This is for the

@
The Jolly Jabber

So much that I am making two quilts.

Above is the large Watermelon Block
in the scrappy red fabrics from my stash.
I am using Kona White for the background of the blocks
in this quilt.

The little Broken Dishes blocks were made with the cutaways.

The piecing instructions called for drawing lines, sewing and then cutting the corners.

Drawing lines is not my favorite thing to do.
It is the only "piecing pet peeve" that I have. 
I think it derives from my vision issues.
I have a difficult time seeing and sewing on the lines.
I have tried a variety of marking pens and pencils over the years
but have never found anything that works for me.

So I always find an alternative method.

This my personally preferred method:

I carefully place the corner square on the main fabric unit
on a cutting board on my sewing table.

Using a 1/4 inch ruler, cut away the corner.

Then I chain piece the triangles and main units.

I love chain piecing!

I also like to sew those little HST into little blocks
for my 15 minutes of play at the end of each session.
Snip the doggy ears and sew!

I find this method fun, fast and very accurate.



For more photos and a free tutorial of a scrap quilt
I am making with this method

Click Here

I call it ...

Precision Piecing Play!
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My little kitties find it fun, too. 

Want to sew along  to make one of these
beautiful Clementine quilts?

Click Here For All Info





I have also received a kit of the beautiful

Mams's Cottage Fabrics by April Rosenthal

This kit is gorgeous!



Nothing is more fun than opening a new fabric bundle
Read More Here

You may purchase this  Quilt Kit Here

As I have other quilty andblog commitments,
I have not had time to enjoy sewing my new kit yet.

My second set of January blocks will be posted soon.

To see more lovely Clementine quilts in progress,
please visit my quilt-along friends:

April of April Rosenthal (@amrosenthal)

Bonnie of Sunset Family Living (@sunsetfamilyliving)

Cara of That Crafty Cara (@thatcraftycara)
Carrie of Moda Cutting Table (@modafabrics)

Denise of Pieced Brain (@piecedbrain)

Elise of Elise and Emelie (@eliseandemelie)

Gina of Carpe Quiltin (@gina_tell_carpequiltin)

Heather of A Creative Pursuit (@acreativemama)

Hilary of By Hilary Jordan (@byhilaryjordan)

Jan of Cocoa Quilts (@cocoaquilts)

Jen of Heritage Threads (@heritage.threads)

Joanne of Quilts by Joanne (@turtlequilterjo)

Kairle of Kairle Oaks Handcrafted Goodness (@kairleoaks)

Kendra of Good Starter (@good_starter)

Kristen of 3 in the Nest (@threeinthenestraleigh)

Kristina of Center Street Quilts (@centerstreetquilts)

Leah of Ponderings from My Heart (@ponderingsfrommyheart)

Melanie of A Bit of Scrap Stuff (@mellierc)

Melissa of Happy Quilting (@happyquiltingmc)

Pat of Pat Sloan (@quilterpatsloan)

Pat B. of Life in the Scrapatch (@scrapatches) (you are here!)

Patty of Elm Street Quilts (@elmstreetquilts)

Rebecca of One Wee Bird (@oneweebird)

Sarah of 123 Quilt (@123quilt)

Seema of SSK Craft Shop (@sskcraftshop)

Sherri of A Quilting Life (@aquiltinglife)

Sondra of Out of the Blue Quilts (@sondradavison)

Stephanie of Quilt 'n Party (@quiltnparty)

Tanya of Tanya Quilts in CO (@tanyaquiltsinco)

Teresa of Aurea's Kitchen (@aureaskitchen)

Vickie of Crocheting Vixen (@crochetingvixen)

Hope to see you sewing along!

Charity Quilt Along with the FQS

Isn't this a beautiful quilt? 

I love the colors and fabrics and the clean crisp look! 

This quilt is the

Fat Quarter Shop 2018 Charity Quilt

Every year the Fat Quarter Shop hosts a charity quilt along 

in which they post monthly patterns on their blog in exchange for a donation 

each time a quilter downloads the pattern. 

In addition, they auction off a completed charity quilt 

where 100% of the proceeds go to the charity of the year. 

This year, they have

 Announced Here

that they will be donating all of the proceeds of their Clementine Quilt 

to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

A very worthy cause.

Very often I use my own fabrics but I love the ones in the sample quilt ...

so I am putting the 

Clementine Quilt Kit

on my Christmas Wish List. 

For complete details on how you can participate go to the

Clementine Quilt Along Main Page

Hope to see you sewing along, too.

:-)

January Charity Blocks

These are Q&N Snug Society Charity Blocks for January.

I have been making blocks for these group quilts for several years.

This and the Quilty Auntie Baby Quilts

are my favorite part of the 

The Quilt & Needle Forum,

where new members are always welcome.

I love making quilts with my quilty friends!

Sewing blocks for a group quilt is a bit different than sewing for my personal quilts.

The pattern has to be easy enough for quilters of all skill levels 

so that everyone who wants to volunteer may join in.

These blocks are from a free online pattern: 

Single Irish Block Pattern @ About.com

When sewing the blocks, I always try to follow the instructions exactly as written 

so that my blocks will play nicely with all the other blocks ...

and making piecing the top as easy as possible for the lovely volunteer 

who is putting this quilt together for us.

I am making these blocks from my scrap stash. 

I carefully cut and lay out my block pieces.

I make sure I iron as instructed by the pattern so that hopefully

 the seams will nest nicely with the other blocks. 

To keep the pieces for each block organized, I do not cut the threads attaching my chain pieced and pressed units until I sew the block together.

I carefully measure and trim my block to make sure it is to correct size.

Making these blocks is fun, relaxing, uses up my stash of scraps, puts them to good use and it makes very pretty quilts!

This charity quilt project is being pieced and run by my friend,

Sharon @ Quilting with a Marmalade Cat

Thanks, Sharon!

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Linking up today with all the wonderful works in progress at

Design Wall Monday @ Patchwork Times

Some great eye candy in the links!

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