Archicoop! Quilt Top

Architextures by Carolyn Friedlander is the first line of fabric where I needed every.single.piece. So wasn’t I a lucky duck to get a 1/2 yard bundle of the entire line for Christmas?! (Thanks, hubs!)

The colors shout “Spring!” and ever since I saw Rossie’s Pebble Quilt, I’ve been hankering to make an egg blanket.

The pattern on this fabric is so geometric and linear, could it work for this design? I needed to do a Photoshop mock-up! (Check out this STUPID EASY tutorial for how to make something like this – I was shocked at the ease!)

I looked good to me, so I went ahead and started making my egg blocks using Rossie’s Applique tutorial. If you’ve seen the Famous Porthole Quilt by Lucie Summers I think this is the method!

I verged from Rossie’s tutorial in a couple of places. For one, I didn’t trim the seam allowances before flipping the facing to the back. I found that the facing would flip easier if I had more fabric to convince it to go with the flow. And instead of top-stitching the layers together, I opted to pull out my fabric glue stick and do the Six Minute Circle method. Just a couple dabs of water-soluble glue on the flipped fabric and stick it to your egg. Then you sew along the same line from when you sewed your flipping fabric into place. Essentially, you are sewing the seam allowance from the foreground piece to the egg background piece. Go slow. You can do it.