Java Charm Pack Cherry Quilt

When I was recently digging through a bag of scraps and yardage. I noticed I was seeing quite a few unused charm squares from the Java collection by Deb Strain. I knew I had a few pieces of the same line leftover from a recent string quilt so I decided to cut a few more charms and make another Charm Pack Cherry quilt.

If you recall, I made one back in June 2014 using the Twenty Three collection by Moda....

and one in November using LOL fabrics by Me and My Sister.  I never quite seem to make the layouts the same but it really is a fun pattern that is quick to put together.

I had a rich chocolate brown cross weave languishing in my stash that I knew would look wonderful with this fabric.  It feels so wonderful to get these older fabrics into finished quilts.

For the quilting, I decided to continue with the coffee theme.  I had purchased the panto Coffee Time at the request from a client so it was great to get it out and use it again.

Even the back is fun with three fabrics and all that fun quilting.  This quilt is already listed in my Etsy shop if anyone has a coffee lover who needs it!

In an effort to motivate me to finish some projects hanging around my sewing room, I made finishing this quilt my August goal for ALYoF with Sew BitterSweet Designs.  Yay for finished quilts!

You can find the free Charm Pack Cherry pattern here. It just needs two charm packs of a print and two from a solid. Pssst: Check out the sale this weekend at Craftsy. I saw some great deals on precuts and solids.

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Charm Pack Cherry - ALYoF August Goal

I am wholeheartedly back on the "Finish it up" bandwagon!  It all started when I thought I would spend a wee bit of time this afternoon straightening up my sewingroom.  As I sorted fabrics into their projects, projects into tubs and placed the tubs onto shelves, I realized quite quickly that I had a few more than the 26 projects I thought I had in the works.  A quick count of just what was in my sewingroom brought me to over 37!  (((Sigh)))

  Unfortunately, I have many more projects hidden away in other rooms of my house so the final count is even more than that!

Thankfully, there are a number of projects that are very near completion and just need a bit of focus on my part.


I had discovered some leftover charm squares a few months ago and decided to turn them into another Charm Pack Cherry quilt.  I had sewn all the blocks up as a leader/ender project....then, there they sat.


As I was cleaning today, I threw them up on my design wall and my goal is to get this quilt finished before the end of August!

I still have a number of projects that have been banished to the laundry room for now because I have no more room for them in my sewingroom.

Guess I will be updating my WIP list this evening and coming up with a game plan!

Take a look at what others are hoping to accomplish this month over at Sew BitterSweet Designs.  I know I will be linking up a finish later in the month and will probably have a number of other finishes as well.  I see a whole lot of quilting in my future!

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A Happy Accident

After seeing Barb's (Mountain Quiltworks) Charm Pack Cherry quilts, I knew I wanted to make one for myself with the two charm packs I had squirreled away of the 2Twenty Thr3e line by Moda.  These had been on the shelf for over a year so I was ready to get them sewn into a quilt.

 When I told Barb I was making the quilt, her comment to me was "It's super easy!".  And it is...but super easy doesn't mean I can't somehow get the blocks sewn wrong differently.  Never liking to get out my seam ripper unless I absolutely have to, I laid out the blocks and saw they would still go together.  Perfect!  Works for me!!

I actually really like how the piecing turned out (probably more than the original layout).  If you like the look too, I think I somehow just sewed all the blocks the same (rather than half one way and half another).  Each sized piece lined up in columns so I just added a quilted squiggly line to match the piecing.  For a background fabric, I used Kona Ash Gray.

 I used a piece out of my stash I had recently bought on sale for the backing.  In fact, a friend showed up to "steal" this piece from me minutes after I finished quilting it.  She was with me when I bought it and was wanting to use it to back a quilt she had just finished.  Too Late!! Guess we are just going to have to go shopping now!

The Charm Pack Cherry Quilt is free pattern from the Fat Quarter Shop. It was super easy and went together in an evening.  I am all out of charm squares or I might consider making another!

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