Faceted Churn Dash {Finished Wall Hanging}

If you are in our Honey, Bunny, and Doll FB group, you've seen all of the progress on this wall hanging!

I hosted a "casual QAL" for our Faceted pattern collection on FB this fall -- it was a lot of fun to do something from an already written pattern rather than a brand new pattern and it's something I will do again!

Returning back to the beginning, I cut the majority of the scraps used in this project using my Accuquilt cutter. 

A lot of half-square triangles later, I incrementally made the pieces and parts for this quilt top.

Parts became the block, and I added the pieced border.

For the quilting, I used a flowerly paisley motif. This is different from my other Faceted wall hangings, where I did different quilting motifs in the piecing, background, and borders.

For the backing, I found a few large pieces of some of my scrap fabrics and sewed them together. I used four different WOF strips of different sizes, which was perfect because the quilt is 36" square.

For the binding, I had just enough of the grey/teal/yellow medallion print. For the hanging sleeve I also used the zig zag print.

Now to find a place to hang this beauty!

Quilt Stats:
Name: Faceted Churn Dash
Pattern: Faceted Churn Dash
Fabrics: scraps, scraps, and more scraps
Techniques: free motion quilting, Accuquilt cutting, endless HSTs
Quilting: Free motion flower paisley
Size: 36" square
Batting: scrap batting
Started: September 2019
Finished: November 2019
Future: Wall hanging for my bedroom

Sharing at Finished or Not Friday, TGIFF at Sarah Goer Quilts, and Peacock Party and Brag about your Beauties!

Cutting Down Scraps {New Scrap Projects}

The bad news is that I have been feeling really overwhelmed by my scrap bins (and baskets and bags) lately.

The good news is that I am starting to feel like at least some of them to good use, after doing a lot of cutting with my Accuquilt Go! cutter.

The sort of bad news is that I have started a bunch of new projects in the last few weeks as a result.

The first of these projects is my Faceted Churn Dash. The grey print in the upper left corner will be my background (this was the backing of my Stash Bee quilt), the print in the lower right hand corner is my inspiration fabric (this was the back of one of my Little Fireworks quilts). I pulled yellows, teals, blacks, and a few grays as my scrappy focal fabrics. All of these fabrics came from my scrap bins, making a tiny dent.

This is also my project for the Faceted QAL I am hosting in our Honey, Bunny, and Doll Facebook group; join if you are able!

The second of these projects is intended to become a table runner, inspired by pieces of a large Asian-inspired floral in my scrap bin. I pulled a teal tonal dot (actually backing fabric scraps!) and a neutral Island Batik basic to use with this fabric. I cut enough pieces and parts to make 12 star blocks, the first four of which are complete:

The final project is the Christmas Ribbons pattern from the book Scrap Basket Surprises by Kim Brackett. Right now I just have the rectangles cut; I have yet to start on cutting the background fabrics but I have the fabric chosen. This will be made as large as I can make it from the yard of background fabric that I have.

What kind of scrap projects are you working on this week?

Sharing at Oh Scrap!

Faceted on Facebook {Quilt Along}

I am popping in today to announce a sort of spur-of-the-moment decision: I am hosting an unofficial QAL *in the Honey, Bunny, and Doll Facebook group* for anyone interested in making one of our Faceted wall hangings before Thanksgiving!

Each of these wall hangings finish at 36" square and are perfect for scraps, precuts, or yardage.

Amanda made the original Faceted Churn Dash quilt from *bonus triangles* and I made the Faceted Friendship Star and the Faceted Ohio Star quilts from 2.5" strip packs.

Again, this semi-unofficial quilt along will not be hosted here on the blog -- it will be hosted in the Facebook group only.

All three patterns are $5 each on Payhip:

Faceted Churn Dash

Faceted Friendship Star

Faceted Ohio Star

Since these quilts are made of the same building blocks with some variation, the week's assignments will focus on the general steps of each quilt -- and the number of units to make will just depend on the particular pattern you chose. 

Here's our tentative schedule:

I hope that you decide to join us for the "unofficial" QAL starting on the 27th!

Faceted Ohio Star {Pattern Premiere}

I'm so excited that we've finished our Faceted Ohio Star Pattern!

This pattern can be found on Payhip!. I originally made this mini quilt as a part of the Printology hop with Benartex and the quilt uses 2.5" strips and yardage to create this faceted masterpiece!

For this quilt, you only need twenty 2.5" strips, one yard of background fabric, and one and a half yards of fabric for the backing. If you have strip stubs left over from a different pre-cut project, all three of our Faceted quilt patterns are amazing for both scraps and yardage! It does save a little bit of time if you start from 2.5" precut strips, but you could even use a few fat eights instead!

Do you have any suggestions for other blocks we should "Facet"? Get all three patterns on Payhip!

Faceted Churn Dash

Faceted Friendship Star

Faceted Ohio Star

Have a wonderful 4th of July! Sharing at Linky Tuesday!

Faceted Ohio Star in Printology {Blog Hop + Giveaway}

Today I'm the host for the Printology blog hop! Thank you to Benartex's Contempo Studio for asking me to participate! I made a new addition to our Faceted mini collection -- a Faceted Ohio Star -- and a pattern will be coming soon!

Printology is designed by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr for Contempo. It's a really fun variety of prints in beautiful, rich colors!

I used a strip pack of Printology as well as some yardage of a Contempo Essentials print for my project.

Like our two other Faceted patterns (Faceted Churn Dash and Faceted Friendship Star) the Faceted Ohio Star pattern uses 2.5" strips and squares to create a big block quilt. I started by cutting some of the Printology strips into 2.5" squares.

Some of the squares are used to make HSTs with the background fabric, and some squares are used to make HSTs with two different Printology fabrics. These Faceted quilts are perfect for bonus triangles and scraps!

The HSTs are used to create larger triangle blocks and 9-patches of HSTs. The triangle units are combined to make hourglasses:

...and the 9-patches are combined to make a 36-patch for the center of the block:

...and then all of the parts are combined to create the big block!

The remainder of the HSTs are used to create the pieced border.

For the quilting, I quilted meanders in the background sections and loops in the Ohio Star piecing and the border. For the binding, I used the partially used 2.5" strips to make a scrappy binding.

I had so much fun working with this fabric line and love the rich colors! I love the peach and magenta combination in this fabric I used on the back of the quilt.

If you'd like to win some fat quarters of Printology for yourself, here's three chances:

1. Leave a comment with your favorite Printology fabric -- click here to see all of the swatches!
2. Leave a comment if your birthday is in May -- bonus chances for birthdays!
3. Leave a comment if you follow Little Bunny Quilts and how you follow.

Update: The giveaway is now closed and Diann from Little Penguin Quilts is the winner!

Thanks for letting me share this fun project with you! Also sharing at Needle and Thread Thursday and Finish it up Friday!

Check out the other stops on the hop this week!
Tuesday: Heather  @ Quilt-achusetts
Wednesday: Alison @ Little Bunny Quilts
Thursday: Jayne @ Twiggy and Opal

Get all three patterns in the Faceted Collection on Payhip:

Faceted Churn Dash

Faceted Friendship Star

Faceted Ohio Star

Faceted Friendship Star {New Pattern Available!}

Hooray! The pattern for the Faceted Friendship Star quilt is now available!

A fun thing about the Faceted Friendship Star and Faceted Churn Dash patterns is that the borders are interchangeable! Both patterns are perfect for using up "waste triangles" from stitch and flip units too!

These patterns are perfect for those 2.5" scraps in your stash!

Get the entire Faceted pattern collection on Payhip:

Faceted Churn Dash

Faceted Friendship Star

Faceted Ohio Star

Faceted Friendship Star {Finished Quilt}

Another finish to share today! My October Island Batik Ambassador project is now complete and I'm working on a pattern too!

I decided to quilt the areas of the foreground fabrics with wiggle-squiggles in the friendship star and the border. The background areas are quilted with loops.

I used a mottled khaki for the backing and hanging pocket.

For the binding I used the scraps from the 2.5 inch strips!

This turned out 36 inches square!

Get the entire Faceted pattern collection on Payhip:

Faceted Churn Dash

Faceted Friendship Star

Faceted Ohio Star

Sharing at Linky Tuesday, Let's Bee Social, Needle and Thread Thursday, and Finish it up Friday!

Faceted Friendship Star {Flying Geese Border}

It's time for the pieced border on my Faceted Friendship Star! This is where we're really getting into the "Creative Borders and Binding" theme for our Island Batik Ambassador projects!

Instead of doing a half-square triangle border for this quilt, I decided to make flying geese (with a few HSTs thrown in for good measure, of course) to build a chevron border on my Faceted Friendship Star.

Working with 2.5 inch strips, I decided to use the 2.5 inch squares for my "small squares" and 4.25 inch squares of background as the "large squares" to make all of the fast flying geese for my chevron border. This involved a lot of chain piecing:

...and some football too! Followed by a lot of trimming.

I also needed to make 12 HSTs in addition to my 80 flying geese to make the pieced border work. I randomly pieced the four small squares with each background square so that it would mimic the random HSTs in the friendship star.

Here's a picture of the first side of the border ready to go on:

This is two rows of flying geese/HSTs units. The top/outer row is 10 flying geese units, the bottom/inner row is 9 flying geese units with a HST on each end. The top row has the geese pointing in and the bottom row has the geese pointing out.

I added the border pieces to the top and bottom of the quilt first.

The side borders are slightly longer, as you might expect! The outer row has 10 flying geese and a background square and HST on each end. The inner row has 11 flying geese with a HST on each end.

With the units arranged in this way, you end up with a continuous chevron border that looks like you've made it from HSTs, but is actually made of flying geese -- with a lot less piecing and bulk!

Here's the final quilt top:

Now to quilt and bind this quilt! It's currently 36.5 inches square and I am excited to start working on finishing it!

Sharing at Linky Tuesday!

Get the entire Faceted pattern collection on Payhip:

Faceted Churn Dash

Faceted Friendship Star

Faceted Ohio Star