The Great Granny Along!!!...

Good morning cute people!

I'm sew excited to share my 

very first quilt along with you...

and of course...

you are ALL invited to

 join in with me:)

(Oh!...I "sew" hope you do!)

How do you play you ask?

Well, you simply make a block...

 or two...or nine...haha 

(however many you want)

Then join the flickr group and

 post your photos!

Click below to join the club!!! 

Great Granny Along

 Flickr group  

Let me and all of the other
 members be inspired by your 
fabric choices, blocks and  

finished quilts! 

 I will be posting more about the GGA every Tuesday for the rest of the summer:)

I also asked my good friend 

Jodi from Pleasant Home 

to partner up with me for the

"Great Granny Along" 

Just for me...she designed a 

Great Granny Along button... 

and set up the 

Great Granny Along flickr group...

 and she has posted 

a fantastic "how to join flickr" tutorial

 for those of you who have never

 used flickr before...

what a sweetie!

Click here

 to visit Jodi and her flickr tutorial.

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please PIN above photo from original source...thanks:)

So about me and granny squares...

they were the very first thing

 that my Grandma Ewell taught me

 how to crochet when I was a girl.

 I made a ton of them using leftover

 bits of yarn that she gave me.

I fell in love with the scrappy look 

of granny squares even way back then!

I still love to crochet them...

but this time...

I'm making them with fabric

 instead of yarn:)

So here is the scoop on how 

my idea for the quilt along started.

Last year I saw in a few magazines

 some pieced granny blocks
 (inspired by crochet granny squares)
and then in a few months time 
I started to see some on several blogs
 and then I even pinned some on

Pinterest

I thought the blocks were sew cute and
 would really be

 a fun way to use up 

some of my leftover fabric!

However...

I decided I wanted my blocks 

to be bigger...

 (to use up more scrap fabric)

So I added another round of squares

 on my block and the

 "Great Granny Block"

was born!!!

My block consists of a center square

 and 3 surrounding rows 

which I call a round

(a crochet term which the granny block stems from)

I named the center square (aqua) 

"The Baby"

The round of 4 squares surrounding 

the baby(green gingham)...

I appropriately named

"The Mama"

I then named the round with 8 squares 

surrounding the mama (red & white)

"The Granny"

And the final round surrounding 

the granny (gray) 

is of course...

"The Great Granny"

As I told you...

my reason for wanting to make a 

"great granny block"  

was to use up leftover fabrics. 

Most of my leftover fabric are precuts

 from my fabric lines 

that have been piling up

in my studio

 over the last year.

Do you have orphaned precuts too?

YAY!!!!

This block is perfect for precuts!!!

 Simply because you can 

cut squares from 

each precut size 

with absolutely no waste!

(mom & grandma will be so proud)

As you can see...

I always use a 

portable design board

 when I cut and sew blocks...

I really wouldn't

want to be without one!

If you haven't made one yet...

CLICK HERE 

for my tutorial on how 

and why I make them.

The design board pictured 

measures 18" x 24"

Here is my quilt that I made

 using 9 blocks....very scrappy!

I just need to bind it and 

then I can hang it...

or use it as a

 table topper...

which is why I chose to

 make it square.

To help you get started in the

 Great Granny Along...

I am giving away a 

"granny roll"

of Millie's Closet.

Just leave me a comment letting me

 know that you are joining the

 "Great Granny Along" 

and that you have also joined 

the flickr group.

I just can't wait 

to see your blocks:)

Have a quilty kind of day my friends!

xx

Lori

EDITED January 16, 2014;

My new book called 

Great Granny Squared 

is now available for pre-order

CLICK HERE