Another Tumbler Finish

I have made a few quilts using my AccuQuilt 3.5" tumbler die but this is the first quilt I have used using my 6.5" die.  Thanks to all the alignment notches right in the die, this quilt was a breeze to sew!

I pulled a bunch of leftover Parsons Gray/Curious Nature fabrics from my stash and the stash of a friend.  There were a bunch of odd cuts and because we both bought the fabric lines, there were many duplicate pieces.  Anything that was large enough was cut into the tumbler shape.  In fact, some of the prints, I actually pieced some strips together so they would fit the die.  

It was time for this fabric to be used up!

I decided to lay the tumbler shape on its side and sew them up in columns.  I also used the lighter fabrics to form some bowtie shapes throughout the quilt.  

There were some fabrics that I had a lot of pieces and a few I only had a few.  I just tried to distribute them all as best I could.

 For the quilting, I used a pantograph called Ebb & Flow.  It worked really well with the fabrics and the tumbler shape.  I also used a dark gray thread for the quilting.

I still had a few prints that I wanted to use up so I planned those for the back.

I will definitely make many more quilts using this tumbler shape.  I think the size of this quilt turned out to be about 54 x 60.  The smaller size was perfect for color blending but I like this tumbler size because it shows off the fabric prints so well!

Perfect timing!  AccuQuilt is currently hosting a sale on both the Studio model and it's dies (which is the unit I have) and has discounted the Go! dies as well.

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Some Stash Busting

I have decided to focus on using up some of my older stash this summer.  

So I gathered up a bunch of Parsons Gray fabric and loaded my 6.5" Tumbler die into my AccuQuilt cutter and in no time had a stack of pieces ready to lay out.

I am not sure yet on the design - I had only a quarter yard of some pieces and more than a yard of others.  I will have to play with them to see what I come up with.

I also decided to cut up some old numbers fabric into 2.5" squares.  I pulled some odds and ends solids that coordinate nicely and quickly created a framed nine patch block.  I like to have baby quilts on hand and I am down to only a couple. 

 I thought this might make a nice gender neutral project.

I still have quite a few stacks of blocks that need to be sewn into a top and quilted.  I am working though those as a design wall opens up.

Right now, there is no shortage of work in my sewing room!

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Quick and Easy

One of the things I have accomplished during my downtime this past week was to clean my sewing room and go through all my project boxes.  It is amazing what one finds!

Tucked away I found a box of some leftover Parson Gray fabrics.  They were cut in varying sizes so I decided to recut them into some uniform 6" squares.  As I cut, I always stack my pieces in layers of 10 shifted an eighth turn.  This way they are easy to count.

I have laid them out on my design wall so I can pull them down in rows and sew them up as a leader/ender project as I work on other things.  In the box was a backing and binding so this will be an easy finish!

(And I will have more space in my fabric cabinet...)

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