Every Little Bit ~ American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine!!

If you're a fabric lover, fabric a-holic, and fabric scrap saver like me...do I have a fun quilt for you to make!!!

June, 2015 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine
cover photo used with permission

I'm blessed to once again to have another original quilt design in the new, June issue of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine!!!  

Every Little Bit quilt, by Pam Buda of Heartspun Quilts
Appearing in the June, 2015 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine
photo used with permission 

Photo used with permission of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine.

The quilt, called Every Little Bit, is aptly named as it really does use just about every little bit and scrap of fabric you may have!!  

Here is a close-up of one of the Churn Dash blocks.  The straight sides of the block are paper-pieced.  Now, don't be put off by that at all!!  Your fabric pieces can be fairly large when you are sewing with them....and...sewing them paper-pieced-style is easy because it's nothing but straight strips.  (Notice the little alphabet fabric print?  I jumped a line in the paper piecing in order to see more of the print.  You can do that, too, to fussy cut, or show more of a print if you'd like.)

Here's a photo I took while making the quilt, and I need to tell you that I worked on this quilt...on and off....for about a year.  

Trust me...you'll enjoy making the quilt a little at a time.  It could have been named "As Time Goes By" because you can paper piece and make the other units a little here and there as you come across scraps....because, of course, the scrappier the better!!

 Making this quilt taught me an important lesson.  Organize!!!  

Sorting the fabric scraps by color made picking and choosing the fabrics for each paper-pieced segment much faster and easier.  The key is to have some sort of organizational system in place, then while you generate more and more scraps, you can 'file' them for future use.  All of the fabric pieces stored in these containers are strips, or squares that measure less than 2 inches.

The beauty is you can use even the smallest little scraps...ones you might throw away, sewing those sweet prints into blocks, and make yourself a quilt of scrappy happiness!  

Every Little Bit was quilted by Linda Hrcka of The Quilted Pineapple

I was twice blessed in that the wickedly talented Linda Hrcka, of The Quilted Pineapple, quilted her magic into my quilt.  Please visit her blog to see more photos of the quilting.  If she hasn't posted about this quilt yet, she will very soon.

Now I know you have lots of scraps, and who doesn't love a classic Churn Dash block??  So the only thing left to do is run out to the store, and buy yourself a copy of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine.  It will be on the newsstand April 7th!!!

I have four orphan blocks leftover from making my quilt, and I think they need a good home. 

For a chance to win one of the blocks, please leave me a comment about how you organize your scraps, or what kind of scrappy quilts are your favorite.  I'll choose four winners Friday, April 3rd, and send you a signed block for your quilt.    

Happy Scrapping!!