Are you ready for the 100 Days 100 Blocks 2022 sew-along? It’s my 5th year participating!
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| 100 Days 100 Blocks 2022: fabric bundles [P&B Textiles] and block tracker |
I’ve got:
- three lusciously squishy P&B Textiles fat quarter bundles,
- my Block-Loc rulers for half-square triangles and flying geese units,
- the Kinship Sampler pattern on my iPad, and
- the 100 Days 100 Blocks event tracker printed.
I’m ready to go!
Specs and prep for the Kinship Sampler 2022
This year, I’ll be using fabrics from the playful Whimsy basics line from P&B Textiles. Whimsy sports a variety of small texture-like patterns and a full color gamut of warm, cool and neutral hues.
My Personal Challenge will be experimenting with combining these rainbow hues with black tone-on-tone fabrics—P&B's Onyx basics—rather than using white or light colors for contrast. This will be a new exploration for me in this year’s sew-along. Where's the "spice in life" if you don't mix it up a bit??
I've begun pulling and cutting fabrics for the first few blocks in preparation for the August 1 start date. The sew-along goes through November 8, 2022 and uses the Kinship Sampler pattern (available from Gnome Angel).
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| Fabric pull: cool colors from the Whimsy collection and black tone-on-tone fat quarters from Onyx collection [P&B Textiles]. Bloc-Loc rulers for flying geese and half-square triangle units. |
The Kinship Sampler is a fun, skill-builder project
There are 50 square blocks that finish at 8”x8” and 50 rectangle blocks 4” x 8” in the Kinship Sampler quilt. Here's why I like it:
- The sampler is appropriate for confident beginners but the two block sizes keep it interesting for advanced quilters.
- Angie at Gnome Angel describes the blocks as "borrowing from the traditional and reflecting the contemporary."
- It’s great practice for perfecting your 1/4” seam.
- You can make it scrappy or plan a controlled color scheme.
- The pattern has suggestions for block layouts, or you can see what others have done using the #100blocks100days or #kinshipsampler hashtags for previous years.
- Doing the 100 Days 100 Blocks sew-along with others is always motivating, encouraging and inspiring. Everyone uses different fabrics and we cheer each other on!
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