A friend of mine, Brenda Alburl, from Songbird Designs, asked if I would test a quilt for her. I LOVE her designs and eagerly said “yes.” Here is the quilt:
I had full intention of making the full sized quilt, but stuff happened. I had a fat quarter bundle of cute fabric that had languished in my stash for many years. It was called Sew Catty and came out in 2011. Time to use it up! I made the first block at a retreat.
When life got a little less chaotic, I started to make more blocks. I was positive I had enough background fabric from my stash for it! But, alas, I realized that I did not have enough for the entire quilt. And, of course, there was nothing in my stash that was close to it. So, I decided that I would just make 12 blocks and call it done.
It was a fun quilt to quilt. I used Silly Moon‘s smallest Cupid ruler for the hearts, swirls in the coloured portions of the blocks and simple meandering in the background, except for the borders where I repeated the swirls. I used left-overs from the blocks to make the scrappy binding.
Once the quilt was finished, including the label, I discovered more of the background fabric!! It had fallen between my table and one of my travelling machines. Oh well, those extra fat quarters are now in the fat quarter container.
Thank you to Brenda for having me test this pattern. The directions are very clear. Visit Songbird Designs if you wish to purchase the pattern!!
NOTE: today, as I’m getting ready to publish this blog post, I realize that 2 of the blocks are in wrong!! Oh well, they are going to stay that way!
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Happy Quilting!
Gail
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- Wednesday Wait Loss @ Inquiring Quilter
- Happy Needle and Thread @ My Quilt Infatuation
- Put your Foot Down @ A Quiltery
- Finished or Not Friday @ Alycia Quilts
- Michelle @ From Bolt to Beauty
- Off the Wall Friday @ Creations – Quilts, Art, Whatever
- TGIFF @ Devoted Quilter
Quilting Gail 
It’s beautiful, turned blocks and all! I had to smile about the missing, then found, background fabric. That’s absolutely something I would do!
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Thanks, Leanne! I’m glad I’m not alone in the missing/found fabric arena! LOL!!!
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Isn’t that cute!!! With all the various colors!!!
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Thank you, Alycia!
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The blocks aren’t wrong, it was an on the fly design decision. It’s a very cute finish. The quilting looks great, love the quilted hearts in the hearts.
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The parts where the hearts are looked like hearts to me. I thought it was a perfect match! LOL!!!
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Those fabrics are fabulous and this was a great quilt to use them on. Sorry that life has gotten hectic! Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
https://www.inquiringquilter.com/questions/2024/10/02/wednesday-wait-loss-400
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Thanks, Jennifer! It was a fun quilt to make! And thank you for hosting Wednesday Wait Loss!!
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You did great with this test quilt for Brenda. Love the fabrics and the hearts in the quilting are perfect. I like your design choice…no wrong blocks in my book.
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This is a nice pattern. Never would think that this is a mistake. Yi thought it must be like that. Who is telling what is right or wrong? It makes the quilt interesting… and more „light“.. all in the same direction is very „straight“… mhh, do I find the right wordS? Could look good with all blue scraps and one „wrong“ direction orange …. So, nothing wrong! Just fabulous!! Thanks for sharing!
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Oh Eva, thank you so much!!!! I LOVE the idea of an all blue quilt with a ‘wrong’ directional orange!!! That would look fantastic! now you’ve got me thinking!!! (Oh dear, I DON”T need another project to start!). LOL!!!
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It’s amazing how easy we can turn a block of two and not even see it until it is all quilted!!
Glad I’m not the only one! ☺️
It’s beautiful!
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Thanks, Pam!!! Maybe I can say it was intentional? But then I’d be lying!! LOL!!!
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Thank you, Gail! Both for testing and being a great friend! I like that you turned those two blocks around. I think it adds character! Love your fabric and the quilting looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing! Have a great weekend!
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It was a fun quilt to make, Brenda!!! I’ll test your quilts any time! And hopefully not make unintentional mistakes! LOL!!!
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Thank you, Gail!
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What a sweet little quilt! I have to admit I didn’t understand the two blocks facing the other way. Lol! Still an adorable quilt. Makes people wonder, right?
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Ah, Sue, the 2 blocks were a mistake … it was obvious once the quilt was posted on my blog, but until then, I honestly didn’t see it! People can wonder and hopefully laugh when they see that others make big mistakes! 🙂
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It’s so much fun to test a pattern—gorgeous! I love how you did it!
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Thank you very much!
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What a lovely quilt! I’m so glad you turned 2 of the blocks the ‘wrong’ way – I like the background center design better. I’d probably turn all of the blocks that same way, which means groupings of 4 at a time – so the number of quilt blocks would have to be divisible by 4. Thanks for sharing such a pretty quilt – and I’m so glad I’m not the only one who ‘loses’ fabric in my quilt room…only to have it turn up later when I do some tidying up!
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LOL!!! I won’t tell you how often I loose fabric, the binding, thread, my seam ripper, my little ruler, my pencil and numerous other items each and every day!!! Jam Session is an easy quilt and you can have fun turning the blocks! Would love to see it when you make it!
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