Summer Memories Quilt Along Week 1

I am taking part in the Summer Memories Quilt Along that Fat Quarter Shop is hosting.

Summer Memories Quilt Along Week 1

For the Summer Memories Quilt Along, you’ll need the Summer Memories Quilt & Cross Stitch Book by Susan Ache for the full pattern.

During the next eight weeks, I’ll be sharing two blocks a week from the Summer Picnic quilt. The ninth week will be when I finish the quilt top and finish the quilt.

Summer Memories Quilt Book

The book Summer Memories by Susan Ache has beautiful red, white, and blue quilts and beautiful cross-stitch projects and we are making the Summer Picnic quilt. There are eight different beautiful basket quilt blocks in the quilt.

Summer Picnic Quilt

Tranquil Gardens Artisan Batiks

I was able to choose whatever fabrics I wanted and it shouldn’t surprise you that I picked batiks! The Tranquil Gardens Artisan Batiks have teals and purples that I thought would make a beautiful quilt.

The Tranquil Gardens Artisan Batiks fat quarter bundle has 24 fat quarters in it. I also picked Morning Mist Artisan Batiks Ivory for the background and two of the Tranquil Gardens pieces for the borders and binding. I think this will be a beautiful quilt when finished!

Half Square Triangles

There are lots of tiny 1½-inch half-square triangles in each block and the book includes directions for traditional piecing. Fat Quarter Shop has 1.5″ HST paper Triangles on a roll which makes it very easy to make perfect HST blocks.

I actually used my Electric AccuQuilt cutter and the 1 1/2-inch finished HST die. It took me just minutes to cut out all of them.

Week 1 Quilt Blocks

Each block is made up of four small basket blocks. I am making mine half in purples and the other half in teals.

Don’t you just want to make some of these cute basket blocks! There may be small pieces but the blocks go together easily.

Here is one finished quilt block for week 1.

So far I have two blocks done for the Summer Picnic quilt.

Join the Summer Memories Quilt Along

You should join the Summer Memories Quilt Along! Here is the blog post announcing it and a list of who will be making a quilt. You will find a list of fabric requirements.

To join the QAL is simple. Just post a picture of your blocks on Instagram and use the hashtag#SummerMemoriesQAL. I’ll be sharing on Instagram also.

Summer Memories Quilt Along Week 1

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