Hey quilters...Happy Tuesday or in my world..."another fun day of sewing!" I've had so much fun this past week with the "Berry Crush Blog Hop." This stunning fabric is Jennifer Thomas new collection for Lumin Fabrics by Jerry Khiev. The prints of Berries...Flowers & Foliage in shades of purples and pinks is stunning. I loved creating with this collection. It really brought me "Joy" while sewing. The collection features 20 different prints and it's already available for you! You can still view Jennifer Thomas stunning designs on her blog a along with all of us quilt designers that participated in this fun blog hop. It's amazing how fabric inspires creativity! I loved this fabric collection "sew much" that I'm hosting some fun...fast and fab projects that would make great gifts for any Holiday. I love to use scraps....it challenges me to get creative especially if they are tiny. Sometimes you look at those tiny pieces and unfortunately we toss them away. But recently while I was 'organizing" my stash...or trying too anyway...I came across the "cardboard backing" that comes with your packaged 10" Precuts. I always thought..."one day I will use these." Well...todays the day that I'm sharing my "Berry Crush Design Board." Y'all this was such a fun and fast project that literally took me about 2 hours to finish from start to stop. You have 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 of surface space to hold a pieced square that you are going to sew. Plus, it fits right beside your machine...just prop it on a photo frame. How convienent is that! It's portable and will fit perfectly in my "Berry Crush Tote" as well. This would be a fun project for a begiinner to learn "scrap piecing" strips. I love a "scrappy border" on a design showing the fabric prints plus your using scraps. But if you're like me...my scraps are making scraps! :-) I thank y'all so much for following and check back soon for more fun...fast n fab projects. Enjoy!
Blessed Quilting from My Home to Yours,
Cat
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Berry Crush Design Board...
Here's all you need...* Berry Crush fabric scraps
* 10" cardboard backing from Precut pkg.
* Pellon fusible fleece (987F)
* Aurifil 50 weight #2582
* Aleen's Fabric Fusion (fabric glue)
* Basic sewing tools
Here's all you do...
* Rotary cut your scrap pieces 2" wide by desired length. Scrappier the better for me :-)
* Sew scraps together at long ends using a 1/4" seam allowance...finger pressing as you go.
* Make 2 strips for the top/bottom of 10 x 10" Fusible fleece square.
* Position the scrappy strip with right sides together to the soft side of fucible fleece. Clip to secure.
* Sew strips to top/bottom of fusible square using a 1/4" seam allowance...removing clips as you sew.
* Finger Press strip away from center block. Do not iron.
* Square up strip even with block.
* Make 2 scrappy strips as above for the left/right sides and sew using the same method.
Tip...no fuss of matching seams when attaching scrap border sides...they get folded back and it comes 2gether perctly. Less stress :-)
Tip...before next step make sure you trim away any "loose threads" on back that might show through the fleece. :-)
* Turn block over and position "10 inch coardboard with blog.
* Finger press scrappy boarder to back starting at top..leaving a 1/4" border on front. Clip to secure.
Note...clip on fabric only not fleece. It will leave marks.
* Fold in half again to secure raw edge...repositioning the same clips to secure.
* Repeat same method for bottom/left/right sides of block.
* On back of block...secure the folded edge with Aleen's fabric fusion along the folded edge only...adjusting clips and finger pressing as you go.
* Let dry facing up.
Design board back...
You did it! Enjoy your unique design board or make several as gifts. I'm sure you might have some more scraps to use?
Thanks so much for following and talk soon,
Cat
