City Tiles QAL: Flimsy Complete

Hi, I sewed along with the City Tiles Quilt along from January 16th to February 26th and completed making my quilt top. The City Tiles pattern is by Emily Dennis and the pattern originally came out in April 2016. I did actually start making my quilt at that time but only made 3 of my 25 blocks needed. Life got complicated with my husband’s back surgery recovery and my Father inlaw having just passed away. I decided that this QAL was a good chance to get back to making this quilt and actually get a top made.

I chose to use this fat quarter bundle of V &Co. Color Theory to make my quilt.

These are the prints that I  pulled to use for my squares.

Here are all my fabric squares and rectangles cut. I made the 18 inch blocks. The pattern also has a 12 inch block version. The standard throw used 16 blocks but I chose to make mine with 25 blocks.  This uses my Color Theory prints in the best way. I eliminated the gray prints since I was using gray as sashing. There are 1675 pieces cut here with some piles having 300-500 pieces. I am very thankful after cutting almost 2 years ago that I didn’t lose a single piece. I kept them all tidy and named in ziplock sandwich bags in a plastic bin.

Here are my completed blue blocks.

Here are my completed pink blocks.

Here  are my completed yellow blocks.

Here  are my  completed green blocks.

Here are my completed turquoise blocks. I think the blue and the turquoise have to be my favorites.

Here are my blocks pieced into the five rows. The bottom row didn’t want to stay on the bed.

Here is my completed flimsy and it finished at 90 inches square. It will need to have another  good pressing before basting the quilt. I pressed most seams open so the blocks would lay flat and they do but it was a bugger when assembling some rows as I started to have some seams come undone here and there and it took extra time to go fix them. I hope I got them all. I will try a smaller stitch length.

On Monday March 19th, Emily Dennis starts a new QAL for her Ombre Gems quilt pattern. Guess what,  I have that one started last year and only got a couple blocks made. I lost steam as I had a hard time laying out my chosen fabrics in a random pattern. I hope to get these made into a quilt this time around as well. These are being made from my long time stashed Sweetwater Authentic prints,  the original ones from like 2010.

Thank you for stopping by my blog and checking out my latest projects. I will be linking this up with Finish It Friday over at Crazy Mom Quilts.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Happy Sewing,

Shelley