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Tall Tales Quilt & Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs Review

Today is a day to celebrate! Kelly from My Quilt Infatuation's new book, Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs, is now available everywhere you buy books--Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Connecting Threads, and many quilt shops. Or you can buy a signed copy right from Kelly herself!

The new book has 30 different quilt backs; each in three sizes. Fifteen of them use scraps (arranged by scrap size) and the other 15 are for stash and yardage (arranged by number of fabrics), so you are sure to find something that works with what you have. 

Many of the quilt backings look like quilt fronts, which really ups the value. You could mix and match the backing patterns to create an entire quilt. On top of that, there are 18 bonus lap-size quilt patterns that you can download for free! As always, full quilt finishing instructions are included. 

I really wanted a pieced back for my Tall Tales quilt top, so Kelly's book launch timing was perfect. Looking through the book gave me inspiration. For my quilt, I chose to use the Cool Columns backing as a guide. I had loads of pieces of novelty fabrics in varying sizes that were either left over from the front or didn't make it into the front. I enlisted my son's help to draw up my piecing plan based on the size of my Tall Tales quilt and the maximum and minimum sizes of the fabrics I had available to use. You certainly don't have to be as fancy or precise as what we did in order to be successful--just follow the easy-to-understand instructions in the book. The inspiration photo from the book is on the left and the diagram he drew me is on the right.

               
Here is the back of my quilt. Isn't it fun! 
And here is the front of my fully finished Tall Tales quilt. I made this quilt top over two summers, several years apart, during quilt alongs. The book block pattern is available here. I quilted it with a modern Baptist Fan design using 60 wt thread so that there was texture without being too thready over the novelty prints.



Visit the following bloggers to see more quilts inspired by Kelly's book:

Sandra @ mmm...quilts
Anja @ Anja Quilts
Vasudha @ Storied Quilts
Kris @ Sew Sunshine
Leanne @ Devoted Quilter
Anne-Marie @ Stories From the Sewing Room You are here!

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Well, Well, Well....

I'm not sure what's gotten into me. I am on a total roll. Remember my list of possible OMGs last week? I've already made a pretty sizable dent in it!

I bound the unicorn quilt. The star and loop pattern is one that came with my IntelliQuilter. This will be a donation to Quilts for Kids.

I started binding my Frolic quilt, which is my official OMG for August. I'm not quite 1/4 done.

For some reason I started working on the Grassy Creek strings. I'm not using the recommended method because I couldn't face tearing all the papers out. I just cut a bunch of little chunks at the correct width and went to town. Probably not the most accurate method, but it's okay. 


I have 32/60 strings made; no corners added yet.

I chased a squirrel with this fabric pull, though I'm not yet sure it will work as I had hoped.

I received my copy of My Quilt Infatuation Kelly's new book. It's a good one! I worked on fabric pulls for a project from the book. I'm excited to give it a whirl.

I'm still quilting up a storm. If you need something quilted, I'm booking September right now. Click the circular Quilting by Anne-Marie logo in the sidebar to go to my business website.

Here's what I've worked on since last week. 

This one is Keetah's. I love the colors on the front. Isn't the backing fun? So unexpected.

Here's a bit from Amber's quilt.

She's so sweet. She brought us a box of designer cookies when she picked up her quilt. 🤤

I worked on a t-shirt quilt from Andrea, including the binding. Diagonal Plaid always looks great on t-shirt quilts.

I finished two of Cindy's quilts. The first one is being quilted with Sierra Blues.

This one is being quilted with Ginger Leaf.

And I quilted Laura's Snail Trail quilt using the Tempest design. It barely shows in this photo though. Do you remember the story behind this quilt? The top was rescued from the Treasure Shop donation bin. The centers of the blocks are all corduroy. It's so fascinating and the colors are really great.

It had such interesting construction.

I played bobbin chicken and won. That is always so satisfying. About three inches of thread was left.

You may notice I only did six this week instead of seven like last week. You know why? I took a day of rest on Friday (trying to be kinder to myself, the unofficial, intangible OMG) and it was glorious. I delivered a quilt, went shopping with my husband, and read for several hours. I will admit that I did a ton of design work for several clients that day, but it was relaxing.

I received my OMG prize from last month, an EPP starter pack from Paper Pieces and Patty at Elm Street Quilts. So generous.

We harvested the first of our tomatoes. I think these are either Pink Lady or Pink Girl? I can't remember other than it had Pink in the name. We made spaghetti sauce for dinner last night. The tomatoes looked a bit questionable, but the sauce was good.
That's basically my week. Hopefully I can keep up this rate of productivity. See you next week.
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