Turkey Trot Blog Hop

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  

MooseStashQuilting

Words & Stitches

The Morning Latte

Quilting Gail

The Life Of Grammy

Tuesday November 14

Karrin’s Crazy World

Just Because Quilts

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Domestic Felicity

Nettie Sews and Lucky Quilts

Wednesday November 15

Selina Quilts

Quilt Doodle Designs

Inflorescence

MS P Designs USA

Thursday November 16

Just Let Me Quilt

BeaQuilter

Quilted Snail

Songbird Designs

Scrapdash

15 thoughts on “Turkey Trot Blog Hop”

  1. I saw your quilts on the trunk show yesterday on the Accuquilt youTube presentation of the two new dies. The quilt tops are beautiful!

  2. Great design for a Thanksgiving quilt! You sure do put your dies to good use! Happy Thanksgiving!

  3. 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!

  4. 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.

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