Westward Journey Quilt Along (Click link to see all posts.)
On Friday, we announced our Westward Journey Quilt Along, and provided the fabric requirements. Do you have your fabrics selected? I looked around the shelves and corners of my quilting cottage over the weekend, and found a box of pretty aqua, green, blue and purple fat quarters I had forgotten about.
The box only had 20 fat quarters, but I decided to go ahead and use them for this Quilt Along. When I opened them up, however, I realized there were a few duplicate fat quarters.
So I took out the duplicates and returned them to my stash, since I’d like a lot of variety like Beth’s original Westward Journey quilt design. That left me with these:
Left with only 13 fat quarters from that collection, I turned to my stash. Here are some I came up with that might work…we’ll see as I begin to piece the blocks. Please bear with me…I snapped these quick photos with my phone in a variety of different settings, and they are not exactly color accurate:
And since some of those fabrics weren’t full fat quarters, and still not quite enough fabric to equal 25 fat quarters for this pattern, it was off to my local quilt shop! I took along the focal print (shown on the bottom below) from my initial collection, and here’s what I found there:
Irene B. was kind enough to share a snapshot of her fabric selections today (thanks, Irene!):
Stop by our Editors’ Blog again tomorrow for the next step in our Westward Journey Quilt Along.
I love your color selection, this is going to make a beautiful quilt!
I would love to do this. I have to get my sewing room back in order quickly since I started painting it and making new curtains over the weekend. This will give me the incentive I need to get that done. Thanks
I love those blues. Looking forward to the next installment
I love all the coloras together.
Love your aqua, green, blue, and purple fabric choices!
Looks like fun, great colors