A {Tiny} Stitch in Color

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Earlier this Fall, I was lucky enough to received some fabric from Quilt Market from my friend Katie. I had done some graphic work for her and as a "thank you" she really spoiled me with a Fat Quarter set of Echo by Lotta Jansdotter as well as a little sample charm pack of Malka Dubrawsky's upcoming fabric line for Moda, A Stitch in Color. I saw a bit of this fabric in person at Malka's Improvisation Piecing class from the summer, and I've been excited about it every since.

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I'm not sure if you have ever seen these little sample charm packs, but the squares are 2.5". I knew I wanted to showcase the bold prints in this line, so I decided to make a simple patchwork quilt with several shades of off-white and tan from my fabric stash. This is another project that I thought I would finish in a couple hours but sewing 200+ tiny squares together accurately actually took longer than I thought!

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For the quilting, I wanted to do something a bit in contrast to the horizontal and vertical rows and columns, so I decided to first quilt a diagonal line through all the squares. Then I added two more diagonal lines in the resulting empty diagonal sections, leaving every other section empty. I am thinking about hanging this on a tan wall in my house, so I bound it in off-white so it would not blend into the wall.

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I went to the Arboretum again today for my photos. Winter is really taking it's time to show up here in Chicago. I know I shouldn't complain because a couple months from now I will be SO ready to be done with the cold and snow, but I will miss having a white Christmas if it doesn't start snowing soon.

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It's still beautiful though, even without the white stuff.