The Bella Skill Builder Starts Today

The Fat Quarter Shop is launching the “Bella Skill Builder” today!

I’m super excited to be quilting along on this skill builder with the Fat Quarter Shop.  For the next 9 months a new block(s) will be revealed on the first of the month.  You’ll get to see how different designers are using their choice of Bella Solids to make this stunning quilt!

This is exactly the kind of quilt I love making – a sampler!  This one is unique too as there are a lot of different rulers (or templates if you don’t want to buy the rulers) needed to make these blocks.  This is going to be a challenge for me – I’m really going to have to pay attention to my 1/4-inch seams. 

But you all know how much I LOVE a challenge and I’m definitely ready for this one! We were sent a supply list to make the quilt.  Instead of following that though … I just purchased a whole bunch of random Bella Solid Fat Quarter Bundles. My quilt is going to look crazy scrappy if the plan in my mind works out!

PS – anytime you shop at the Fat Quarter Shop be sure to stop by the 24-Hour Flash Sale before you checkout – you never know what extra goodie you may find at a great deal!

A photo posted by Kim Lapacek (@persimondreams) on Jan 13, 2017 at 6:46am PST

Here’s a shot of all the different fabrics that came with the bundles!  This is going to be insane! The next step for me to get started was to sort all these fat quarters by

light

medium

and dark colors.  Even now looking at these photo’s I don’ that values all “perfect” but this quick sort is enough to get me started. 

The first block was the Kaleidoscope.  This block uses the Spiderweb Ruler but you can use the templates that are included with the pattern too. These were my first blocks I’ve ever made using a spiderweb ruler!  It’s just crazy to me how the ruler really does help you cut the fabric just perfectly! You will be making 3 blocks this month …

1A … my intersection wasn’t quite perfect but definitely close enough to make me happy.

and then two 1Bs.  The two blocks are essentially the same just at different scales!

The only bad thing about making three blocks is trying to take a descent picture that shows them all!  I think I did okay “making it work” on a spot in my living room!

And let’s do a quick value check since I’m doing this so scrappy!  To do this I just edited my photo into black and white.  Looks pretty darn good to me!

Stop back again on March 1st to see the next blocks!

In the meantime – head over to the Fat Quarter Shop’s blog to see how you can join in this quilt along fun!