A New Sew Along - YaY!!!...

I'm so excited to tell you 

about a new sew along!

I was going to post this 

on Monday but I just couldn't wait:)

We will be using my book

Great Granny Squared

as the manual for this sew along ...

just like we did with the 

Quilty Fun Sew Along ...

so if you want to play along

 you will need a copy of your own:)

The Great Granny Sew Along will begin on 

Monday April 21st and will go for 5 weeks:)

All of the details for the sew along will be posted 

Monday, April 14th on the

 Jolly Jabber 

YaY!

They will be hosting once again…

 because they are awesome like that:)

There will also be 12 amazing bloggers hosting as well…

it's going to be fun and full of fabulous giveaways as well!

The purpose of my post today is to

 show you the quilt that I designed for the sew along

and give you a heads up on yardage so that you will be 

all ready and set to sew!!!

The quilt celebrates the art of crochet

(after all…crochet was the inspiration for the great granny blocks)

It finishes at 40" x 52" and I named it

"Mama's Crochet"

It uses both of the label blocks in the book

 as well as the mama blocks:)

We will also be making a happy scrappy

 Great Granny Block

from the book to use as the label!

You could use one particular fabric collection for your quilt…

 or it's a perfect project to use up some of your scrappy stash.

I used mostly Denyse Schmidt fabrics 

from several different collections for mine.

We will be using 2 1/2" squares for the

 mama blocks and the great granny blocks

so working with leftover 2 1/2" strips or

 5" squares would be perfect.

There is really no yardage requirements for the blocks…

just use your scrappy stash.

When you are choosing for larger than 2 1/2" cuts 

like the basket and the balls of yarn...

 you can see what size all of the blocks are cut 

by using your manual.

As for the background, backing and borders though…

this is what you will need.

For the background you will need 1 3/4 yards.

I used Swiss Dots in aqua by Riley Blake Designs.

For the back of the quilt you will need

 a length of 44" wide x 56" fabric.

I used aqua words from my Polka Dot Stitches collection.

For the inner border you will need 1/4 yard.

I used orange DS Quilts fabric for mine.

And for the outer border you will need 3/4 yards.

I used aqua DS fabric for mine as well.

When it's time for binding you will need 1/2 yard.

I used apple green with aqua dots from

 my Bake Sale collection for my binding.

This quilt also looks very Easter -ish to me ...

 the basket of yarn could double for easter eggs!

What a cute spring pillow idea:)

This quilt was easy and super fast to put together.

I pulled fabrics from my stash 4 days ago ...

sewed it all together in one day and had it bound by this morning:)

I'm "sew" excited ...are you?

Tell me if you're ready to

 have some more 

scrappy happy stitching with me!

xx

Lori