Yay it’s my day to show my thanksgiving themed project for this blog hop hosted by the lovely JOAN!!
Time just flew away from me (again? for this hop!! ) Why does that happen? I usually plan ahead and have lots of ideas and schedule my posts way in advance, this time it was pretty down to the wire….. BUT I DO have something to show 🙂
At first I was thinking of using Accuquilt’s new die called Turkey in the Straw
I recently made this quilt for Accuquilt, not super FALL-ish….
Then I thought of something in just BROWN colors and I wanted to use another one of their BOB dies called Full Blown Tulip
Then I set to work with the die, EQ and some brown fabrics and came up with this quilt, a small quilt that’s 31″ x 31″ so it’s either a table topper or a baby quilt!
I printed out the EQ sketch, picked some fabrics (from my coffee FQ club bundle)
For this quilt I also used the 8″ QUBE and companion dies so I got out dies #4, 5 and 16!
I also marked on the sketch how many of each shape I needed from each fabric 🙂
This is a BOB die, so it’s easy to just cut WOF strips and fanfold on the die over each shape and cut out a bunch at a time, notice I also sharpie write the measurements on the die for future uses!
This was the first time using this BOB die btw.
As always I put the pieces in a plastic bin, as I usually work on several projects at once and just grab maybe 8 or so pieces from each project and sew those before ironing.
There was an interesting shape “B” on this die, that looked symmetrical but it wasn’t quite, so I sorted the “left and right” of these into piles
When sewing the pieces together, it’s easy to see if it’s right or wrong as the dog ears are cut off so the pieces line up perfectly!
the left one is correct and the right one is wrong!
I also started working on the alternate blocks at the same time
here’s a quarter of the full blown tulip block
and the #16 trapezoid and #5 triangle for the alternate blocks
and quickly I had 5 of these blocks done
and 4 of the alternate blocks done too (I forgot to take a picture of the final ones)
Then I sewed them together, I think it’s a funny element that the brown doesn’t line up, it’s not meant to so the beige/white background corners created a fun secondary design!
Then I added borders in brown and light brown
Here it is all quilted!
I put it on our dining room table, it doesn’t really work for a round/oval table and it was hard to take a picture as everything is still sort of a mess in the dining room because of our kitchen renovation! ha ha
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Here’s the rest of the participants
Monday November 13 Â
Tuesday November 14
Wednesday November 15
Thursday November 16
Love seeing your process, and what a pretty quilt resulted. Love the browns!
I saw your quilts on the trunk show yesterday on the Accuquilt youTube presentation of the two new dies. The quilt tops are beautiful!
Oh cool! I didn’t get to see them yet. How fun!!
Your table topper/quilt is lovely!
Beautiful quilt with those browns! I liked seeing your process and the use of the Accuquilt. Thanks for sharing!
Your table topper is beautiful! The colors are very rich, and your quilting is gorgeous.
Great design for a Thanksgiving quilt! You sure do put your dies to good use! Happy Thanksgiving!
You are definitely the queen of using the Accuquilt dies! This one created a beautiful quilt that looks nice and cozy in the brown fabrics. Thanks for sharing, Bea, and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Love your brown quilt!!! And that tulip die is fantastic!
Thanks for sharing your tips on how you organize your sewing!
Beautiful fall quilt!
This is a lovely quilt! Table toppers are one of my favorites and very useful. Happy Thanksgiving!
That is a great finish for the Turkey Trot hop!
I’m glad you chose the “tulip” block to make your table topper. I really do like that block and the browns fit in with the season as well as look great. It could be used all fall long.
Great projects, Bea! Thanks for sharing. Love my AccuQuilt dies and cutter!
Happy Thanksgiving! Your table topper is perfect.