Piece & Love Quilt Along: Week 5

Can you believe it’s the final week of our Piece & Love Quilt Along?? We have had such a fun time making this cheerful version of Piece & Love. We’re going to tell you a bit about how we finished our quilt, plus another option from our QAL sponsor, MK Quilts.

We usually try to do different quilting designs within the heart and the stripes. We did straight horizontal lines in our heart this time. Lavender thread worked really well for most of the rainbow colors, and then we switched to navy for the very bottom.

For the stripes, we did a wavy stripe quilting design. We switched thread colors for each stripe, since there is such a color contrast. It’s a bit of extra work to switch colors so often, but it’s totally worth it!

We kept our quilting pretty simple this time around, but check out this custom quilting designed by Ellen from MK Quilts! She will be quilting her Piece & Love Quilt with this design, so you can see it stitch out and the progress this week on their Facebook page: MK Quilts Facebook Page

For our backing fabric, we picked this multicolor Jen Kingwell design that hides all of the different thread colors very well.

Once the quilting is done, trim the edges of the quilt square and prepare your binding. We usually use the darker stripe color for binding. It gives the quilt a great finish!

Check out our Scrappy Binding Tutorial for some extra tips on machine binding. It’s our preferred method, and the tips apply whether or not you’re doing a scrappy binding.

Once you’re done binding, you can press the edges for a clean look. Then, that’s it! Your quilt is complete!

Done just in time for Valentine’s Day, too. We just got a ton of snow, so we will definitely be using ours to snuggle up and get through the rest of winter.

We can’t wait to see your finished quilts!

Giveaway Info!

Our Week 4 giveaway winner is from Instagram: @daniela_from_pella!

For this last week, we are picking one winner to win a grand prize package! The winner will receive a fabric pack from us and 20% off longarm quilting + free return shipping from our sponsor MK Quilts!

**You must have a complete quilt top to win the grand prize.** We know that lots of you might want to have your quilt tops quilted by someone else, and that can take some extra time.

You can enter to win the grand prize 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 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 February 14th to complete your quilt top and post it on Instagram or Facebook for entry in the grand prize drawing. We will have a prize pack of fabric and 20% off longarm quilting + free return shipping from our sponsor MK Quilts!
Grand Prize winner will be announced on February 17th.