Wednesday, May 28, 2014

More Tula Time! #44 to 60

I need to catch you up on my progress with Tula Pink's City Sampler.  I've been working on these blocks a few at a time.  First I lay out all my fabric, all Tula's with a coordinating stack of Kona solids.

I cut a bunch out and then sew the blocks together.
 
Before I started this last round I pulled the completed blocks out of the book and organized them by color to see how the color distribution of my randomness was working out.

I was not too surprised to see the largest pile had mostly purple and aqua elements.

First, finishing off the triangle sections (cause for celebration!) are blocks #44 through 55:

Really, Tula, 30 pieces in a 6.5" block?!

Escaping into the stripes section, here are blocks #56 through 60:

Oh look, Fox Field has made it into the blocks!

This is what 60 blocks look like:

As you can see from the picture above I have a respectable collection of Tula Pink fabrics.  Last night we were in beautiful Portsmouth, NH killing time before meeting our son and daughter-in-law for dinner and, well, we just had to stop at the Portsmouth Fabric Company.   I had been there once before but it was in my naive, innocent quilting days when I was shopping for a sewing machine.  But now I walk the aisles of this little, packed, charming store and all I see is beautiful designer fabric that I want to take home with me!  The fabric is well organized, mostly by designer.  I am glad I am not hooked on Kaffee Fassett fabric as the selection was amazing.   AND (you know where this is going...) the Tula Pink fabric was extensive!  I even found a few that I did not have!

I can't wait to play with the leftovers from this project!
Happy Wednesday!  Linking up with Lorna's Let's Bee Social and Lee's WIP Wednesday.
Kathy

15 comments:

  1. There are some Farmer's Wife blocks with more than 30 pieces - those are the ones I haven't done yet! :D Your Tula quilt is going to be so wonderful. :D

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  2. Your Tula Pink quilt will be amazing! Your blocks are beautiful! Impressed you have 60 done. Love your stash of TP! And yay on finding some more.

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  3. I was just at PFC last Friday... oh that store is amazing!! I took my MIL for the first time and she loved it! Happy more-than-halfway-done with the sampler, Kathy : )

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  4. Your randomness is working out...b e a u t i f u l l y!!! Your counters remind me of my house in Arizona...kinda random I know...LOL!!! Anyhooo....love the progress of your Tula Pinks! (Oh love the rabbit with the big pink dot fabric especially!) SMILES! V:)

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  5. your blocks are great! I love shopping at PFC, they have a fabulous selection of Tula Pink :)

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  6. Quite amazing quilt! Hope to see it finished!

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  7. Great job on working through those blocks :). That quilt shop is one of my FAVORITE! Just love it there.

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  8. Gorgeous, Kathy! Just gorgeous! Love your blocks... Sew precisely pieced. And that shot of the book had me chuckling. Thanks so much for sharing!

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  9. Oh your blocks are just gorgeous! Good idea to group them by colour. Thanks for the tip

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  10. You have done a wonderful job making the blocks. They look awesome.

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  11. Wonderful progress! I am through 40- and NOT loving the triangles already :-( I'm inspired to see that you made it through!

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  12. I love your blocks! I am so inspired to push through the triangles (I'm just thru #40 this week) after seeing how wonderful yours look!

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  13. That is a lot of pieces for a 6.5 inch block. Your blocks are coming out so nicely. Tula Pink's fabrics are starting to grow on me, and I don't need to want any more fabric! :) Those last three that you just picked up are quite nice.

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  14. wow- you are really humming along! Simply gorgeous- can't wait to see this all come together.

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  15. These are fabulous!! Congrats on finishing with the triangles :-) (why, oh why, wasn't that book printed with a huge spiral binding?!)

    ~ Tracy

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