Ready to get started on our Fruit Striped Gum Quilt Along? Ready to use up those scraps? Here's how we will get started...
- Gather all of your scraps in white - whether solid, tone on tone, any thing in this neighborhood - you will need lots of white fabric
- Gather all of your pastels...anything really light to medium in color
- Sort the scraps into color families...all the yellows together, all the pinks, all the greens, purples, blues, etc.
- Length of scraps 4'' to 15''
- Width of scraps 1'' to 3''
- How many scraps? Lots and lots...there is no definitive answer to this, remember it started as a project to use up all of my scraps
- You will need a foundation for sewing your scraps to...I prefer non fusible, non woven interfacing (NFNW) lightweight, this is sold by the yard or in packages. I purchase mine by yard, which is 22'' wide. This is my personal preference, feel free to use this, or a lightweight muslin. I use this because it provides stability to the various weights of fabric, as well as eliminating any issues to fabrics that have been cut on the bias.
- 4 1/2 yards of NFNW interfacing, or other foundation material (this is for 22'' wide NFNW interfacing), recalculate if using a 42'' wide material).
- Cut interfacing/foundation material into 10" squares
- 9 1/2" square ruler - for squaring up later
- sewing machine, iron, rotary cutter, rotary mat - all the usual quilting supplies
Quilt Block - 9" finished
Quilt Size - 44" x 54" in a 5 by 6 configuration...you can make yours larger, or smaller depending on how many scraps you have
Here's the link for the Scrap Quilt Along Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1286594@N21/
Here are the badges:
150 x 150
200 x 200
link to www.cherryhousequilts.com
Click here to Download Scrap Quilt Along pdf
You are ready to get started! Gather all your materials, sort as noted above, cut your foundation material to size, and on Thursday will be begin sewing!!!
Thank you for joining me on this journey! I hope you will have a great time, that you will use up your scraps, and have something of beauty when it's all said and done.
Cherri
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Oh my gosh, I LOVE this one!
Posted by: Ruthie | November 15, 2009 at 03:14 PM
I'm going to try this one! I'm pretty sure I'll fall behind at some point as I have many other things on the go and never enough time but I've never done a quilt along and I think it would be so much fun!
Posted by: Suzanne | November 15, 2009 at 07:31 PM
had the wrong address linked to my name...now you'll get my blog :)
Posted by: Suzanne | November 15, 2009 at 07:32 PM
Fruit Striped Gum -- you're so cute Cheri -- what a fun quiltalong!
Posted by: Thimbleanna | November 15, 2009 at 09:01 PM
Oh my gosh! This is sooo funny! I just bought a pack of FRUIT STRIPE GUM last week! It was a fluke that I found it! It was my favorite gum growing up. I am sooo going to do this one! Thank you for sharing it! I don't know how ya'll come up with it all, but PLEASE keep on with the creativity! LOL!
Posted by: Amanda in KS | November 17, 2009 at 03:24 PM
I have a crazy question. I am trying to put the badge on my blog and I can't figure out how to get it to save. Could someone tell me how? I have others on my blog, but the information I save is usually quite long and when I look at the properties of the badge for this group it is short. Thanks.
Posted by: Cynthia | November 21, 2009 at 06:12 PM