Little Ruby Sewalong — Part 4

For the last few weeks I’ve been sew­ing along as part of the Fat Quarter Shop Little Ruby Quilt Along.  It’s been heaps of fun learn­ing some new tricks and it’s always a bonus to get a new quilt (or two!) in the pro­cess.  The Fat Quarter shop teamed up with Cam­ille Roskel­ley who designed the quilt using Little Ruby fabrics.

Through out the pro­cess of mak­ing these quilts I was a little wor­ried about how the light­er back­ground would work out.  It sure is dif­fer­ent to the quilts that the oth­er blog­gers made but, I like it!   The low volume back­ground just seems to make the prints and solids pop right out and the match­ing bind­ing just works a treat.

And since I for­got last time, big big thanks to my friend Tara, aka cham­pi­on bind­ing sewist!, who helped me out enorm­ously by sew­ing the bind­ing on this quilt and a couple of my new pat­tern samples (includ­ing the big one, Bailey).

Diane, my long arm quilter, quilted the Little Ruby quilt with this ‘Flower of Life’ pat­tern.  Such a cute designs and pretty per­fect for this quilt.

One of the great things about the Little Ruby quilt along was that there was a second quilt  that could be made with the leftover pieces from the star block strips.   I sent the major­ity of those leftovers down to a fam­ily mem­ber who has just star­ted quilt­ing but I did keep enough to make a little baby quilt.   Using the sol­id strips meant that the blocks for the second quilt look much the same as the ones in the main quilt which was an added bonus.

If you missed the quilt along you can head over to the Fat Quarter Shop blog where you will be able to find all the details about the mater­i­als and tools needed as well as links to You­Tube videos to help you through each step.

Don’t for­get to stop by and take a look at the quilts the oth­er blog­gers made, they’re pretty awe­some and are great inspir­a­tion if you’d like to make this quilt too!

Melissa from Happy Quilt­ing
Angie from Gnome Angel
Erin Cox from Why Not Sew
Andy from A Bright Corner
Heidi from But­tons & Butterflies
Pat from Pat Sloan
Peta from She Quilts a Lot (thats me!)
Heath­er from Quilt Story
Megan from Quilt Story
Aman­da from Jedi Craft Girl
Gerri from Planted Seed Designs
Sherri from A Quilt­ing Life
Rebecca from Bry­an House Quilts
Sherri from This & That Patterns
Jemima from Tied with a Ribbon
Alyce from Blos­som Heart Quilts
Stephanie from Mod­ern Sewciety
Brooke from Silly Mama Quilts
Car­rie from Moda’s United Notions

Have a great week,