BLOCK 4 OF FAT QUARTER SHOP SNAPSHOTS QUILT-ALONG

Can you believe it’s been a month already since I shared my Fat Quarter Shop Snapshots Quilt-Along blocks? I can’t! This year is disappearing so quickly, it’s crazy.

For those of you not familiar with the Fat Quarter Shop Snapshots Quilt-Along it’s really quite simple. For all of 2015 Fat Quarter Shop will be revealing a block a month of the Snapshots Quilt which was designed by the legendary Mother-Daughter duo Bonnie & Camille. The quilt is made up of 12 novelty blocks that capture and celebrate moments of happiness in our lives and is called “Snapshots”. Fat Quarter Shop are asking people to donate US$5 for each block that they download the pattern for with all money benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. (A fabulous cause!)

Block 4 is called “Puppy Love” and you can get the pattern by clicking here. It’s such a cute block and so much neater than having a real puppy in the house. I’m sewing all of my blocks with fabric from the Kona 2014 New Colours Fat Quarter Bundle and using Kona White for the block’s background. It’s been such a fun challenge to constrain myself to using just the colours in the bundle. I would never have picked the colour combination for this block otherwise and I’m really digging how it turned out.

My one tip for this block is to pay careful attention to how the paws are facing when you join them to the basket. It took me a couple of goes to get them facing the right way up (I’m totally clinging to “lack of sleep” and “battling head cold” for my excuse!).

Because I started making my  Robert Kaufman Kona Solids version after the Fat Quarter Shop Snapshots Quilt-Along had already started I needed to go back and redo Block 1, “Let Them Eat Cake”.

I had a bit of fun with this block trying to pick colours that would be “appetising” – I always remember Gordon Ramsay telling someone on Masterchef or some such that green is never appetising when it comes to sweets. (Guess that’s why I don’t eat salads!) Needless to say, there’s no green in the cake but I did go with a green cake stand as a tribute to Martha Stewart and her love of Jadeite. (You can see my previous version of block 1 by clicking here.)

I now have the top row of blocks done and it’s fun to see them coming together and I’m starting to get a feel for how the quilt will look. It’s pretty cool and I’m having fun doing something that’s a little out of my normal patchworking zone. I can’t wait to see how next month’s block turn’s out!

You can see my version of the blocks by clicking the links below:

Block 1 – Let Them Eat Cake

Block 2 – Sew On & Sew On

Block 3 – Put the Kettle On

Block 4 – Puppy Love

So that’s where I’m at with my Fat Quarter Shop Snapshots Quilt-Along patchwork. If you’d like to find out more about it (including how to donate to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) or see some great video tutorials on how to make the blocks then click here.

Don’t forget you can also check out the following amazingly talented quilters and see their versions of the Fat Quarter Shop Snapshots Quilt-Along:

Camille Roskelley of Thimble Blossoms

Bonnie Olaveson of Cotton Way

Pat Sloan of The Voice of Quilting

Lori Holt of Bee in My Bonnet

Sherri McConnell of A Quilting Life

Melissa Corry of Happy Quilting

Thelma Childers of Cupcakes N’ Daisies

Pam Viera-McGinnis of Pam Kitty Morning

Anne Sutton of Bunny Hill Designs

Stephanie Kendron of The Modern Sewciety

Natalia Bonner of Piece N Quilt

Greg Jones of Grey Dogwood Studios

Jessie Fincham of Messy Jesse

Disclosure: The Fat Quarter Shop are sponsors of GnomeAngel.com. All opinions expressed are my own and have not been influenced by the businesses involved. For further information about my disclosure policy please click here.