Tula Time!

This post is a follow up to my posts from the end of September – Tula Pink “All Stars” Retreat (Part I) and Tula Pink “All Stars” Retreat (Part II).

I have the makings of an art quilt simmering on the large design wall in the hallway (see yesterday’s post What’s Simmering on the Design Wall), so on one of the smaller design walls I have in my studio, I’ve put up the blocks I made during the Tula Pink All Stars fabric retreat I had with my quilting friends a couple weeks ago:

Yesterday I pulled out my “box of Tula” with fat quarters and scraps from the retreat:

Now that I have the fourteen 12.5 inch x 12.5 inch blocks up on the design wall, I’ve decided I am going to create 36 blocks for a 6 blocks x 6 blocks quilt. My plan is to make 12 blocks of each of the 3 types of blocks I’ve made so far as shown below (all with “fussy cut” centers).

1) Square within a square within a square within a square with:

2) Square within a square within a square with a larger square in the middle:

3) Little boxes: 4 squares within a square block:

The Tula Pink All Stars collection has six creatures in the feature fabric collection:

• Racoon
• Squirrel
• Owl
• Bee
• Frog
• Fancy Bird

Coordinating with the feature fabrics are coordinating stripes, dots and solids.

Here is my original stack of fat quarters before I started making the blocks:

I plan to set the blocks using the various blocks as sashing with some type of cornerstones like the example below:

Now that I have a plan on where I am going with the blocks, I am going to start cutting out blocks in preparation for a quilt retreat I am attending the latter part of next week.

If the quilt top works out, I might try my hand at writing a pattern for the quilt and offer it to my readers as a free download of something like that. It is going to be a very colorful quilt!