50 Shades of Brown

Jo Morton finished last years quiltalong, 50 Shades of Brown, and shared a photo. Soooo darling! 

I love seeing your quiltalongs even if it is later than when we did it online. 

And here's a bit of brown in  my neighborhood this week,

Mr buck chilling in our front lot. 

And maybe Mrs Buck chilling nearby Mr. 

Here's a bit of pink with some brown. This guy is sooooo stinky, but so cute! He runs to the fence to visit when we are taking our walk. 

We have an employee out on vacation so I'm working for him on Saturday. 

 But I am hoping to have a new little quilt to share with you for Christmas!

Have a terrific weekend!

 

Polly's Polka Dot and 50 Shades Winner

                                           Thank you all for sewing along with 50 Shades this year!                                 Vicki Bartels, you are the winner of this little stack of browns from my stash. 

Here's her darling quilt!

Send me your snail mail and I'll get these out to you.

Poppy's Polka Dot block3 by Gay Bomers of Sentimental Stitches is ready!

Get it here. 

No matter what the outcome of the election is tomorrow, I'm proud to live in a country that I can participate in an election! Please don't let this come between your important friendships or family relationships. Agree to disagree, but do it with love as your intention. 

Now, if you have NOT voted, please VOTE!

 Much love

 

50 Shades of Brown Linky Party!

I am so thrilled to see so many of you sewing along making this little quilt! I thought it may be too simple, but maybe that is what we needed this year.  Thank you so all so much!

My inspiration is Central Oregon in late summer.

Now it's time to share your quilts with me and each other! 

 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

50 Shades of Brown Finale

Here is my finished top! I used 4 different directional fabrics for the border! 

Fun and humble!

My border is cut 2 1/2" wide. Depending on how you want to add your border, you'll need to figure out the length for your quilt.

I lightened this up so you could see the quilting. 

The top border has unmarked diagonal lines. The left border has the same unmarked lines going in a different direction then the top. 

The right border I quilted straight lines across  the little "arrows" randomly spaced apart. 

The bottom has quilting lines going across from left to right.

The center I quilted in X's and in the ditch between the squares. 

I didn't mark anything! Only eyeballed it.

I bound it in tan muslin. 

And.....BOOM!

Here is the adorable original antique!

How can you NOT love that stitching on the top??!!

I hope you had fun making 50 Shades of Brown!

I'll have a linky party next week so we can see them all together!

Much love

 

50 Shades of Brown part 2

Now cut 18 2 1/2" brown squares using various shades and prints of brown. The original little quilt has quite a bit of striped and one way fabric in it. 

I layed mine out somewhat like the original, having the 2 pink blocks near each other and the blue off by itself.  There was no rhyme or reason/light and dark on the layout.  It was super scrappy and humble!

 

Then piece the top together.  I don't have a photo without the border. But this layout is how I piece most of my quilts. 

What makes this quilt super charming is the border! The antique uses 4 one way fabrics! For now, look through your stash and see what options you have then meet me back here next Monday for the finale.

Make it a terrific week no matter your circumstances!

50 Shades of Brown Part 1

 Good morning! I had such a wonderful week away!! 26+ miles backpacking, then 3 days in a cute little cabin with my honey to recover and be ready to get back to work. It was pretty amazing!! I'll share a few photos on Wednesday. 

For now, we are going to make 4 patches for 50 Shades of Brown.

I told you there was a smidge of pink and blue. This is what is in my quilt. I did NOT strip piece these because I want a big variety. These are 1 1/2" squares. If you want it like mine, make one with 2 blue patches and make 2 more with 4 pink patches. 

Then using a variety (it really doesn't need to be 50 different browns- lol ) make 14 more 4 patches using 1 1/2" squares.  Your unfinished size should be 2 1/2".

Admire your cute little patches!!

Have a terrific week!

50 Shades of Brown Quiltalong

If you would like to sewalong here's a sampling of the various shades of browns I used. The quilt is going to measure approx 14"x18" so it's likely you really won't need 50!! LOL 

If you watched the video from last Friday you know I mentioned a teeny bit of pink (4- 1 1/2" squares) and a teeny bit of blue (2- 1 1/2" squares) 

You'll be surprised at how many different shades of brown there is. Some are tinted with yellow, some are a bit more red. If you lay them out and one keeps looking out of place, then just pull it out. Find a nice variety and be ready to start a super easy quiltalong when I return on Monday September 21st. 

As for the name: 

This is my world late summer- lots of brown!

Most recently our usual amazing blue skies are brown!

It got so thick not even the sun was peaking through. 

So many shades of brown! 

No matter what's going on, have a terrific week.