Welcome to the second post for the About A Quilt Sampler QAL! In this post, I will be sharing the QAL schedule and the fabric requirements.
If you happen to land here without having to know what it is all about, please visit the previous post here or you can go ahead to the archive page HERE.
ABOUT A QUILT SAMPLER QAL SCHEDULE:
5th January 2013 :: Fabric Requirements
15th January 2013 :: Lets Link Up Fabric Choices + QAYG Inroduction
5th February 2013 :: First Block Tutorial
15th February 2013 :: First Block Quilting Tutorial
….. each 5th of the month we will be doing block and and on the 15th we will be quilting it.
(Of course, you can take your own time to do so. This are just schedule for myself and the tutorial to come out on my blog; add the button and click on it and you’ll be directed to all the post for this QAL)
5th October 2013 :: Attaching the blocks together with QAYG technique
15th October 2013 :: Binding the Quilt & Done!
I’ll free up November and December as we all get busy towards the holiday season and I know you all have a lot of homemade gifts to make.
FABRIC REQUIREMENTS
Today I’ll give you the fabric requirements for About A Quilt Sampler QAL. The blocks are going to be 12″ finished size and we will be joining using a narrow sashing. The final quilt will be about 36″ x 36″ wallhanging quilt.
I have decided to make mine with Salt Water Fat Quarter Bundle. So it’ll look like below if it goes to plan. I might change few fabrics around later, though.
Now, I am going to use a lot of white solid on mine. If you prefer to use other solids for the blocks, please do so. I do recommend to use solid wherever I use solid fabrics as this will be the part where we want to do detail quilting on it and it is best seen on solid than printed fabrics.
VERSION #1: (Same as mine)
Here are the fabric requirements if you wish to use the same white solids for the blocks and the sashings and various printed fabrics for the blocks:
(Yardage are based on 40-44″ wide fabric)
3 yds of White Solid for blocks and sashings
9 Fat Quarters for the backing – I use solid in different colours
16-20 Printed Fat Quarters (You’ll need to repeat using the same patterned fabrics for different block if you use 16 fat quarters)
If you decide to use different coloured solids for different blocks, you’ll need this fabric requirement :
2 Yards of Solid Colour (or if various 6-9 Solid Colour Fat Quarters) for blocks
3 Yards of Solid Colour for sashings
9 Fat Quarters for the backing – I use solid in different colours
16-20 Printed Fat Quarters (You’ll need to repeat using the same patterned fabrics for different block if you use 16 fat quarters)
Of course, then again you can always just use scraps in the same tone or whatever. I know you all are creative! Besides, this will be about a year long QAL, so you might not need to prepare the fabrics now. But it’ll be fun to set a theme for your quilt.
Well, please do ask questions, if you have any. This is my first QAL and I have TONS to learn. I might have missed a few things or lots.
So, what now?? pick your fabrics or order. Share them in the next post of this QAL!
Thanks for stopping by. I do love to hear from you if you plan to join in!
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This looks fun! I can’t join in on any quilt-alongs right now, but feel free to link up your posts at BOMs Away Mondays if you’d like. 🙂
This looks fun! I can’t join in on any quilt-alongs right now, but feel free to link up your posts at BOMs Away Mondays if you’d like. 🙂
Can’t wait and I think I have some fabric in ming that I bought last summer on Prince |Edward Island. I hope it works out fine.
Can’t wait and I think I have some fabric in ming that I bought last summer on Prince |Edward Island. I hope it works out fine.
I am very interested in this QAL. I have been saving my Amy Butler for several years now and have been wondering what to use it for. Version 2 is more interesting to me especially using her solids with her prints. Thanks for the invite. Keep me up to date
I am very interested in this QAL. I have been saving my Amy Butler for several years now and have been wondering what to use it for. Version 2 is more interesting to me especially using her solids with her prints. Thanks for the invite. Keep me up to date
Not sure I can manage the QAL but I am going to try. I will certainly be following this. I am very interested in QAYG…never done it. thanks for this.
Not sure I can manage the QAL but I am going to try. I will certainly be following this. I am very interested in QAYG…never done it. thanks for this.
Hi Amira,
I am relatively new to your Blog, and have just stumbled onto your “A Quilt Sampler Quilt As You Go Tutorials. My question is: Is it to late to do this? I am assuming not since it is in your Archives, but wanted to ask to be sure. I love Samplers. In my early years of quilting, I was very interested in Sampler Quilts knowing that I would/could possibly learn a great deal, but my schedule wouldn’t permit me to get involved in such a project as I was still working. A few years ago, after retiring, our local fabric store was offering a 25 Block Sampler Class and I jumped on it. The class was for 9 weeks, every Thursday from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, and each week we were to complete two Blocks in Class and two Blocks at home. For a Beginner Quilter that was a very tough schedule but I managed to complete it. A friend of mine recently convinced me to enter the Quilt in the local fair that comes to town, and I placed third in the “Mixed Techniques Category”. I was of course both shocked and very proud. So, if this Sampler QAYG Tutorial is still available I am in! I have the perfect wall in my new Quilting Studio to hang it. Thanks so much!
Hi Jackson Watkins,
Sampler Quilts are my favourite! The tutorials are available in the archives to be used at your own pace. It will not be a quilt along as we have passed that, but surely you can still continue to do yours as the archive is not going anywhere. Feel free to use them and drop me questions if you have any problem with it.
Congratulation on winning at the quilt fair! Must have been so exciting!! This quilt ” A Quilt Sampler Quilt As You Go” will be a perfect start to learning quilt as you go, testing free motion quilting and it is the perfect size for a wallhanging. Would love to see your progress if you do decide to make it 🙂 Have fun!!