Piece & Love Quilt Along: Week 4

Welcome to Week 4 of the Piece & Love Quilt Along! This week, we’re putting all those beautiful blocks together and finishing the quilt top. We’re getting so close to finishing this gorgeous quilt!

If you haven’t started putting any of the blocks together yet, you’ll start by piecing those. The heart blocks go together in a certain way, in order to properly add the background pieces. Make sure to follow the steps in the pattern carefully, so you don’t have to rip out any seams.

Next, piece all of the stripes. Backstitch at the beginning and end of each stripe to prevent popping seams before quilting. Also, be careful to line up the seams, particularly within the heart and where the heart and background meet. Those will be the most noticeable spots if you are off by too much.

That’s it! The quilt top is complete. Note: If you are doing twin size, you will have one extra stripe there on the bottom.

Make sure that everything is pressed well. This will make quilting go a lot more smoothly.

Next week, we will be talking about quilting and binding to get this quilt completely finished.

Giveaway Info!

Our Week 3 giveaway winner is from Instagram: @littleyellowbicycle!

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

or

Post a photo of your fabric choices in our Facebook group

A few quick notes:

• You MUST use a public Instagram account and use the correct hashtags in the caption, 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, February 2nd, to post your photo. Winner will be announced February 3rd.
• You have until February 14th to complete your quilt top for entry in the grand prize drawing. We will have a prize pack of fabric and 20% off longarm quilting + free shipping from our sponsor MK Quilts!

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We can’t wait to see your quilt tops! This is one of the most exciting weeks to see it all come together. If you have any questions, just let us know in the comments below.