Romantic Scrappy Block Quilt- The Fabric and Cutting Out the Pieces

Hi everyone! A few months ago, I decided to buy fabric from Walmart to make myself new quilts. I had my eye on certain fabric colors and designs as well as fat quarter bundles. After taking them home, I decided to start sewing the quilts. Sadly, my life became very busy very quickly. So, I set them aside to focus on more important matters.

While searching through my blog post drafts, I found the photographs of the progress I made making one of the quilts. I called the quilt the Romantic Scrappy Block Quilt due to the fabric colors and designs as well as the design I want to make the quilt blocks.

EDIT: All the photographs in this post have the wrong watermark. It is for my lifestyle blog, not this one. I will keep the photographs like this due to my inability to edit them without a proper photo editing software.

I started the quilt by purchasing two fat quarter bundles…

All the fabric for the quilt blocks will be made out of fabric purchased at Walmart. (Unless I change my mind. Then I’ll let you know in a future post) The fat quarter bundles come with five fabric designs, which look like this…

Just like the name for this quilt says, the quilt is a scrappy quilt. If you are unfamiliar with scrappy quilts, they usually don’t have a defined pattern. (Such as a log cabin quilts and Minnesota star quilts) Although scrappy quilts can contain the same fabric and color combinations, they are usually made from scrap fabric.

For my quilt, I want the colors to be consistent, but are not in a defined quilt block pattern.

After some thought, I decided to cut the fat quarters into 2 1/2 inch strips…

I plan on cutting most of the into 2 1/2 inch by 2 1/2 inch strips while others will be 2 1/2 inches by 5 inches. Then I will piece them together.

Even though I like the color combination from the quilt blocks I felt like I needed more color verity in the quilt. I also thought I would probably need more fabric in the quilt to make it the size that I want it to be. So, I decided to go back to Walmart and search for more fabric.

I didn’t find any fat quarter bundles in the colors I want, but I did find five fabrics in similar patterns and in the color ways  I wanted…

And here is what the new fabric looks like next to the original fat quarter bundle fabrics…

I really like the way they look together. It has the romantic, shabby chic type look I’m looking for, but it is multi seasonal.

So far I have cut out all the 2 1/2 inch strips of all the fabric, but I haven’t cut them into the final blocks for sewing. I was also thinking about sewing some of the strips together and then cutting them in that way. Doing this will make some of the piecing easier and will also give me a chance to practice cutting sewn fabrics for quilts. I have already done this with other quilt blocks, but not using this technique.

 

 

That’s all for now! Thank you for reading!