Piece and Quilt with Precuts & the Frequency Quilt Pattern

Hi!  I'm Nancy Scott and if you haven't visited my blog before - Welcome to Masterpiece Quilting!

I'm super excited to be part of Christa Watson's Blog Hop to celebrate the release of her new book, Piece and Quilt with Precuts, published by Martingale Publishing. 

I hope you have been visiting all the blogs this week and seeing the projects everyone is making from the book.  Here is Christa's post with links to all 30 quilters taking part of the blog hop. 

I made Christa's Frequency quilt and I want to take you step-by-step through my process.

First - fabric selection.  Honestly, this was the hardest part!  Once I decided on a Christmas theme, it was easy to pull some orphan precut strips along with fabrics from my stash and cut them to size. 

Next was the piecing.  This pattern lends itself to chain piecing so it was super quick and easy to sew together.

I tend to be a "planned layout" person, so I just had to take a leap of faith as I was assembling the blocks.  I tried to make sure I had my reds, greens and lights distributed well.  I was worried about nothing as the blocks looked great with the improv / scrappy look!

Next up was the quilting...  I'm a longarmer and Christa quilts on a domestic machine.  Some people would see that as a divide between us - but not me, I see the fact that we are both QUILTERS - united, not divided.  Since Christa includes quilting suggestions and directions in her book for each quilt, I just followed them but executed them on my longarm instead of a domestic machine.  Can anyone tell the difference?  Probably NOT!

So if you are thinking "this books not for me, it's for domestic machine quilters only"  - I kindly ask you to reconsider your thinking.  Longarmers, shortarmers, midarmers, anyone with a machine on a track system can benefit from the quilting designs in this book. 

And now the binding...  my trusty binding assistant Miss Lilly got into the action - well actually she snoozed thru the action !  But the quilt does have her "paw of approval"

Without further adieu .... my finished Frequency Quilt!

You can order your copy of Piece and Quilt with Precuts here.  It will be an excellent addition to your quilting library!