Piece & Love Quilt Along: Week 1

Welcome to the first week of the Piece & Love Quilt Along! If you don’t already have the pattern, now’s the time to grab yourself a copy. Get the PDF pattern to get started right away, or get the Paper pattern mailed to you ASAP. Since this week is all about choosing your fabrics, you’ll still a week before we start cutting!

Alright, let’s get talking about choosing your fabrics. For the Piece & Love Quilt, you’ll need a good variety of prints and colors for the heart. We’re using Alison Glass’s Observatory batiks. It’s a good idea to choose a color range with small increments to give the heart some dimension.

You will also need two colors for the background stripes. This time around, we’re doing a bold white/saffron combo in Moda’s Bella solids.

Look at that great color range! You can get the required squares from a fat eighth, or you can save yourself a step and grab 5″ square precuts. Just make sure that you have enough squares as we have listed in the pattern! Typically, that is two precut packs. You can also use 10″ squares for this, but you will have to do a little bit more cutting.

Giveaway Info!

Each week of the quilt along, we are picking one winner to win a free pattern from us. You can enter the weekly giveaway one of two ways:

Post a photo of your fabric choices on Instagram using hashtags #pieceandloveqal + #theclothparcel

Post a photo of your fabric choices in our Facebook group

A few quick notes:

You MUST use a public Instagram account, or else we won’t see your photo. If we don’t “like” your photo, we haven’t seen it.
You MUST be apply to be a member of our Facebook group to post to it, but we do our best to approve requests quickly.
You have until Sunday, January 12th, to post your photo. Winners will be announced January 13th.
You have until February 14th to complete your quilt top for entry in the grand prize drawing. We will have more information on this in the coming weeks, but be sure to check out our sponsor MK Quilts below!