Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stash Blasting Wednesday.

Here I am in my studio playing with a jelly roll and a charm pack. I have had these two items in my stash for quite a while. They are from the fabric line Woodland Bloom by Lila Tueller manufactured by Moda. I am most certain it is out of production as it has to be at least 3 years old and so I only have the 2 ½″ strips and 5″ squares to work with.

This fabric line has two different colour ways – pink/green and teal/rust with some tan, brown and white thrown into the mix. I decided to make my piece with the pink/green and some of the brown, tan and white – the pieces that have pink and green on them.

The colours – teal, rust, brown, tan, pink, green and white

I started by sewing strips together – 2 green and 2 pink strips to make a strip set of 4 different fabrics.

Two strip sets alternating green and pink strips

Then I cut he strips into 2 ½″ strips and sewed four together to create a 16 patch block. I was able to make 4 from each strip set.

16-patch blocks

Still so many strips, what to do. I made a couple more strip sets but this time with only 3 fabrics per strip set and have used them to build rail fence blocks that form a sort of pinwheel in the middle with the white strips.

Rail fence block with white fabrics in middle

The quilt is looking like it doesn’t have a lot of contrast and is extremely busy. I have decided that I need to add in a solid fabric for some contrast. I dug into my stash and came up with a dark burgundy that will work as sashing, binding and a border.

Auditioning the burgundy with some of the fabrics

I do find with many of the jelly rolls that are a whole fabric line there is not a lot of contrast in the fabrics. This means the fabrics are mostly medium valued fabrics and often times they are very busy fabrics with lots of pattern. This is certainly the case with this fabric line. Look at the photo at the top of the page – it certainly is busy and has very little contrast. I could add in the teal/rust strips for contrast but just not quite sure I want to do that.

Only 4 strips left. I added sets of two with the burgundy contrast fabric which I think looks quite good.

Contrast fabric to either side of strips

Next question is do I make 4 patch blocks with the charm squares or put them in rows or do something completely different with them like triangles – so many options.

Four patch with the charm squares

Charm squares in a row

Tune in next week to see how this whole improv design comes together. Jelly rolls and charm packs who knew they could be so versatile and go such a long way.

Happy Quilting!