Stash Statement Book Blog Hop Starts Today
Hi, Today is the first day of the new book blog hop for the book Stash Statement, which is written by Kelly Young who blogs over at My Quilt Fascination. Stash Statement is a wonderful collection of 13 new scrappy quilt patterns. Kelly teaches you how to sew from your stash and use the tiniest of scraps to make new yardage to create some amazing improv quilt designs. She teaches you three different techniques to use what she calls structured improv. This is improv piecing with a pattern. I will admit I have never made an improv and this makes it an easy less scary way to attempt it for the first time.
The book blog hop tour will run from April 16th through July 9th, with a new quilt highlighted each week. Kelly asked a group of her fellow quilting friends to make up a quilt for her book. I will be sharing my quilt on the blog hop on May 21st.
I have been a long time follower of Kelly’s blog. She was part of my inspiration to start my memory quilt project. She made a set of memory quilts from her loved one’s plaid shirts. She asked me to try and use my plaid scraps to make my chosen quilt from her book. I started with 30 shirts and have made 15 quilts so far. I need to get at least 3 more made. I wasn’t sure if I was going to have enough fabrics to make what I needed. Today, I drug out all my fabric shirt pieces and piles and photographed them. It appears that I have more left than I thought. 
I have a pile from cutting the first Swoon quilt from shirt backs. I have piles of single long sleeves, single short sleeves (Dog in Sweaters was cut from single shirt sleeves), single shirt fronts and piles of extra parts of shirt backs. I have an entire bag full of yokes, plackets and cuffs. There is a stack of yokes that have the shirt brand patches sewn on them still. I will be incorporating them into the improv blocks for my book quilt. I have no real idea what to do with the plackets, most have snaps. I cut off all the buttons from the button down shirts. Maybe fold them and use in some fabric weaving project??
During the blog hop, there will be multiple chances to win a copy of the book. You can enter on Kelly’s blog and the Martingale publisher site. Please check out the weekly stops on this hop and be prepared to be inspired on how you can use up your fabric scraps and create a lovely quilt.
Here is the scheduled book tour:
Stash Statement Blog Tour Schedule-
4/16- Grand Bazaar Shelley @ Cora’s Quilts
Connie @ Freemotion by the River
4/23- Louvered Lindsey @ Primrose Cottage Quilts
4/30- Precarious Jess @ Quilty Habit
5/7- Beach Retreat Sarah @ Sarah Goer Quilts
5/14- Fire Pit Alison @ Little Bunny Quilts
5/21- Detour Laura @ Slice of Pi Quilts
Shelley @ The Carpenter’s Daughter Who Quilts
5/28- Murrina Yvonne @ Quilting Jetgirl
6/4- Scattered Jayne @ Twiggy and Opal
Christine @ Triangles and Squares
6/11- Bloom Chicka Boom Chris @ made by ChrissieD
Michelle @ From Bolt to Beauty
6/18- Regatta Susan @ Quilt Fabrication
6/25- Catch a Falling Star Cynthia @ Quilting is More Fun Than Housework
7/2- College Prep Hilary @ by Hilary Jordan
7/9- Take Flight (bonus digital pattern) Kelli @ Seriously, I Think It Needs Stitches
Get yourself a copy of Stash Statement which is available from the following:
- Kelly Young’s Shop – buying it here will get you a signed copy!
- Martingale – Stash Statement by Kelly Young
- Amazon – Stash Statement by Kelly Young
Thanks for stopping by and please come back to check out my quilt on May 21st. I am sure I will have more memory quilts to share before then and working on some non-plaid quilts for fun.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
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