My latest project is on the Moda Bake Shop today. It’s called Color Pop Pillow and its a modern disappearing nine-patch. It’s a simple project with lots of wow factor. My husband said it was his favorite thing I’ve made so far. 
Check out the tutorial {here}.
Moda Fabrics has a series of free patterns designed for solids called the 12-Pack. You can see the last released set {here}. I’m working on a pattern from the new set using the lovely stack of Bella Solids above. I like to name my fabric stacks because I’m a nerd like that so this one is called Retro Whimsy. The colors are sort of dreamy and cupcake-like. I’m seeing strawberry cake and chocolate frosting. Mmmm.
The Bella Solids shown (from top to bottom) are:
Pale Pink | 9900-26
Sisters Pink | 9900-145
Pink | 9900-9900-61
Popsicle | 9900-143
Citrine | 9900-211
Pesto| 9900-233
Gray | 9900-83
Stone | 9900-128
Betty’s Brown | 9900-125
Robin’s Egg | 9900-85
Seafoam | 9900-191
Turquoise | 9900-107
(shown twice, one piece is for the binding)
So that’s what I’m working on today. And now I need a cupcake.
So for yesterday’s WIP Wednesday project, I tackled a quilt I’d named “Urban Cowgirl Around the World” and it turned into a completely different project. I had a trip around the world quilt in mind, combining an Urban Cowgirl jelly roll with a Bella Solids {warm} jelly roll. The color palettes aren’t an exact match, but they’re close enough to look good together. I’m not into matching anyway…I prefer coordinating palettes.
Instead, I decided to try the Jelly Roll Race (also called Jelly Roll 1600) method.
It’s a fast and easy method to whip up a lap-sized quilt in about two hours. Some tutorials say one hour, but two hours is more realistic. Still, how many other quilts can be made in two hours?
I can imagine all sorts of variations with this pattern. Given my considerable stash of jelly rolls, it’s very likely that I will be making one (or several) of these again.
As for this quilt top, I have half of each jelly roll remaining and I will probably use a similar method to create some borders (and save a few strips for a scrappy binding). And I’m going to have to rename the quilt. Jelly Roll Cowgirl? Urban Barrel Race? Urban Jelly Roll sounds like a city dweller’s muffin top, which makes me kinda like it best of all. 
Today is visit your local quilt shop (LQS) day. My LQS is a contemporary shop called Quilter’s Connection. They used to carry mostly repros, batiks, and novelty fabrics but have slowly been adding some modern designers to the mix. I hadn’t stopped in for several months so I was very pleasantly surprised today to find so many modern (especially Moda) fabrics and a good selection of well-priced solids.
I picked up just a few things:
A couple of charm packs of Mod Century by Jenn Ski, two mini Bella Solids charm packs, and a yard of Clementine (also Bella Solids). I was thinking of combining the Mod Century + Clementine with some Bungle Jungle by Tim & Beck charms packs I have.
I love how they look together. This might derail me from my WIPs for the weekend.
I’m in the mood for fall! Where is our sweater weather, Texas? I actually wore shorts today. Shorts! But the continuing heat hasn’t stopped me from thinking about fall. I picked out a pretty stack of Bella Solids to make a quilt:
{All Bella Solids by Moda Fabrics: Berrylicious, Boysenberry, Clementine, Longhorn, Mustard, Saffron, Dark Denim, Eggplant, Grape, Moda U Brown, Almond}
I bought half yards so I have enough for two quilt tops. I think I’ll mix in some prints for one but only solids for the other. I just need to decide on a pattern!
{added to my WIP list}