Hi and welcome to the Color Blog Hop hosted by Joan at Moosestashquilting!
I’m always up for joining a blog hop! It’s a fun challenge each time and it makes you think outside the box sometimes and the project doesn’t have to be HUGE!
I thought about this one for a while, I wasn’t sure if I should re-make one if my own patterns in rainbow colors or take one of my rainbow patterns and make them NON rainbow??
Then 2 weeks ago, our town had an Easter Bunny treasure hunt, where we had to walk around downtown and find ceramic Easter Bunnies and take selfies of them and at the same look at shops and have a good time!
There actually IS a sort of Fabric store in town, it’s one I often dismiss but we walked up to French Connection and browsed, the kids didn’t remember ever being there, it’s a house turned into a store and it crammed full of stuff! The wife is French so there’s one room with French Fabrics like provencial fabrics but I remembered why I dismissed the place, it’s super expensive and then the FQs are not cut like a FQ they are 16″ wide…..Then the rest of the store is African, I couldn’t tell you the region of Africa, it seems like all over the place, there’s carved things, fabrics, things made of wire, baskets, it’s really eclectic! I decided to buy this little charm pack of “what I thought” was African fabrics.
When I got home I opened the pack and they are more like retro fabrics, still cool, just not what I thought! Then I thought of this rainbow hop and thought it would be perfect for that so I set to work finding a pattern.
I don’t know if many of you know but I’m the designer for love-sew’s charm pack club, each month participants get a free pattern with their charm packs and I recently made one called “Contrary Wife”- I think it’s month 10 and the name could be different as they re-format the patterns and sometimes rename them too, it’s a really cool CLUB btw! This is the BIG version of the pattern, I made the small version which is 27″ x 36″ and uses 36 squares.
Since I love using Accuquilt dies, this pattern uses a lot of the dies from the 6″ QUBE set. So I cut out all the charms and I thought a brown would look cool as the background, it goes with the whole retro look! I did keep a pale grey as the grey star tips in the pattern.
The top went together quickly and I quilted it in brown thread with a sort of retro curvy design too.
Turned out to be a fun quilt!
To see other participants in the blog hop, here’s the list, hop around and be inspired!
Monday April 18
Tuesday April 19
Wednesday April 20
Thursday April 21
Beckys Adventures in Quilting and Travel
Friday April 22
And BTW I still have an EASTER SALE going on for my patterns, get 20% off by entering coupon code Easter2022
and on Monday I’m starting the “Farmer’s Wife” QAL where I’ll post a block per week and they are all Accuquilt QUBE friendly blocks! so don’t forget to sign up for my mailing list!
It’s so cool to visit everyone during the blog hops. There is inspiration galore. I don’t have any cutting machine, just a ruler and rotary cutter, but I can see where your cutter and dies would make that part much quicker. Amazing! Thanks
I love those colorful fabrics and they really look great on the brown background. Wonderful job Bea!
I love your quilt and the use of the brown was a great choice! Three cats is fabric that is produced in South Africa. I have a few pieces.
Your quilt is fantastic! The colors really pop off the brown background and the whole piece has so much life and movement.
Looks like you had a fun day with the family. I never thought of using brown as a background but it looks perfect for this quilt.
It was totally out of my comfort zone but it worked!
Oh Bea, those fabrics are gorgeous, and you sure made them shine with your design. What a great find in that quilt shops. The treasure hunt sounds like it was really fun and you sure found a wonderful treasure yourself!
That brown background is perfect on that quilt! It’s amazing what one can do with “surprise” fabric–your quilt is lovely!
Sounds like you had a great time on your treasure hunt and came home with a great project! Even if it was out of your comfort zone, you rose to the challenge well!
You turned the charm pack into a really awesome retro looking quilt. I love it, Bea!
That was a great pattern for those fabrics!!!
What a fun family photo!
Great quilt, and the brown was perfect! Thanks so much for sharing!
This is a lovely quilt! I did check out the charm pack club. Not sure, just yet, if this is something that I need. Looks fun though.
I love to visit French Connection, but rarely buy fabric there. Reasons? Like you, I find that it’s somewhat pricey and the French and African prints don’t really fit my design style. Kudos for shopping local and your project turned out SEW well, Bea!
Wow, your fabrics and beautiful pieced blocks look amazing. The background really accentuated the colors making them pop!
What a neat club to join with fun small projects. Thanks for the link.
You certainly have lots of lovely colour happening there. What a fun family day out.
The 3 cats fabric at the top is Shweshwe from South Africa. You made a great quilt!
What colorful stars that just pop with that background! I love this!
I love the quilt you made with your new charm pack. That store sounds interesting and i love the idea of your easter bunny hunt. Such fun for the whole family.
What a great use of those fabrics, and the choice of a brown background – I wouldn’t have thought of it, but it goes great with those fabrics.
Super fun quilt- the colors pop with your background choice. Love hearing about your bunny hunt and shopping too.
Wonderful quilt and fabrics. They do look African to me. That brown background really suits the quilt well.
Great retro look. The choice of brown for the background is terrific with those fabrics. Wonderful quilt.
It really did turn out to be a fun quilt! I love the colorful prints with the brown background. Thanks for sharing!
I love how the quilt turned out, and the dark brown fabric background is awesome.
So colorful! Your choice of pattern and the brown background was perfect. Love the smaller size, too.
That deep drown background is fantastic. The quilt turned out wonderful! I’ve been itching to get the 6 inch cube dies. I love 6 inch blocks!