Worldly Lil Twister quilt

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 My newest Lil' Twister quilt is called Worldly Twist. I love the colors in this and it finished out to be 40 x 46 inches - a nice size for a baby blanket or a lap quilt.

Quilting Lodge  my newest sponsor, sent  these beautiful fabrics which are Amelia by Me and My Sister for Moda and I used  the Lil' Twister Ruler to make this neat quilt.

I cut up the 6 fat quarters into 5 inch square - each one gave me 12 squares. I also cut 12 squares from my 1 yard pieces.

 I knew how I wanted to design it but my challenge was to work with a limited amount of fabric and see what I could come up with. I really wanted a dark pink in the center but I didn't have enough fabric. This was my final layout - the size was 40 x 50,  then I added a 3 inch border around it to make it 46 x 56 inches.

Now to cut out the blocks, I love this part. I actually took it out to the kitchen and laid my cutting mat out on our island counter then after I had it half cut and pieced back together I took it down to Builder Bob's shop for some photos.

You use your large rotary cuter (the one the size of an Oreo cookie)

Shrinkage - I cut and pieced my blocks differently this time so you could see the size before and after being cut and pieced back together.

Original size was 46 x 56 before cutting with the template. The finished size was now 31 x36 inches. So your finished twister quilt will be about 2/3 of the size of the original.

I then cut 4 - 2.5 inch strips of fabric for my binding and then had enough to cut 5 inch borders. I looked at the quilt and decided it looked a little boring.

So I found some hot pink batik and cut some flowers with my Sizzix Big Shot and added 1 to the center and then in each corner. I appliquilted them before I quilted the whole quilt but forgot to take a picture.

Inspector Simon - if you walk away for a moment there he is!

It is definitely easier to free-motion quilt without a cat sitting on the quilt!

I forgot about the borders making the quilt bigger so I was about 5 inches short on the binding - improvise - I cut my binding pieces in half lengthwise and added 2.5 inch strips of leftover fabrics. Sorry no picture, I also got to use some gently aged fabric from my stash for the back.

I really think the flowers add to the quilt. You could also just use a dark pink in those blocks if you didn't want to do any applique.

You can click on this sketch and save it if you want to make one like mine

I had to take it down to the river for some photos -

and I had a couple friendly frogs stop by to inspect my stitching.

Bye little frog....good thing I hadn't washed the quilt yet!

I took this photo this morning after the quilt had been washed - that is my favorite step - washing and drying my quilt.

I hope you are still here as there is a giveaway!

Quilting Lodge sponsored this great giveaway and look what you can win! Vicki and Judy have generously offered to give one lucky person 8 fat quarters of Amelie and the Lil' Twister template!

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This contest will run through Saturday, November 5th - midnight CST. 

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