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City Sampler 100 Modern Quilt Blocks

6/17/2013

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The book above, Tula Pink's City Sampler 100 Modern Quilt Blocks, is the focus of a new quilt along being hosted by Sara over at Sew Sweetness.  It officially started up a few weeks ago, but I just got started on it last week, which is ok, it has been easy to catch up.  I'm running a tad bit behind because it took me forever to lock in what fabrics I wanted to use, but now that I have decided, I'm off and running.  I'll be using Constellations by Lizzy House, you can see those print fabrics on the bottom row in the photo below.  Once I had officially chosen that fabric line, I dug into my stash and pulled as many solids from my collection that matched.  I actually had way more matching solids than I thought, so all I bought was Kona black and I am all set!
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Blocks 1,2 and 3.  I love all the blues with the touch of yellow thrown in every now and then.  These three blocks were fairly straight forward to make, though I did have to unpick parts on each of these because I somehow reversed certain pieces.  Even with the mistakes I originally made, these blocks were still quick and easy.  They measure 6.5" x 6.5", so these pieces are pretty tiny, which I honestly think makes it even more fun and maybe a tad challenging.  I really love this fabric line, so that means I really love these blocks, the scale of the prints are all small scale, which is one of the reasons I chose these fabrics for the quilt along,  The few prints from this collection that are a tad bit larger, I make sure to save for fussy cutting.  You can see what I am talking about in Block #3, that cute center fabric, see how perfect that works out.  Love it!
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Here are the first three blocks, shown a different way.  Featured next to the block in the book.  Obviously, my fabrics will be drastically different than the book, but I aiming to keep the same value of fabrics (or at least try to maintain the light, medium and dark tones.)
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I am playing catch up, so I hope to show you guys blocks 4-12 at some point this week because I have them sewn, photographed and ready to show off!

Sew Sweetness
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Debbie link
6/17/2013 03:57:51 pm

Oh Marci - I love your fabric choices for this quilt! So glad you are joining in!!

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Mary link
6/18/2013 12:02:31 pm

Oh those colors are great together. I'm definitely following along to see how this one turns out!

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Rachel link
6/22/2013 09:33:01 am

Love the fabrics you chose for this!

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