Shine Quilt Sew Along: Week 5 & 6: Make Blocks

The Shine quilt sew along includes lots of added tips and videos to help you make this modern quilt pattern. This fat quarter quilt pattern is beginner friendly and focuses on improv sewing. suzyquilts.com #fatquarterpattern #improvquilt

Heeeey Sunshine Crew and welcome back to a two week mashup for the Shine quilt sew along. Since we will continue to sew our crazy little improv blocks for this week and the next, I figured you didn't need four separate blog posts on making the same thing.

If you missed any of the added block-making tips from previous posts, definitely check them out! The post from Week 3 should be especially helpful. And if you have no idea what a Suzy Quilts sew along is, this original post will be most enlightening.

LIVE Videos

Every Thursday at 7:30 Central I will go LIVE in the Suzy Quilts Patterns Facebook group and on Instagram. There is a caveat, however. I am currently 16 weeks pregnant and sometimes find it difficult to pull myself together past 6pm. 😉

Every week I will try my best to slap on some blush and get perky, but if you are sitting around on your phone, waiting for me to show up and it's after 7:45, just say, "Bless her heart," and picture me curled up on the couch feeling like a bloated gorilla. 

The Shine quilt sew along includes lots of added tips and videos to help you make this modern quilt pattern. This fat quarter quilt pattern is beginner friendly and focuses on improv sewing. suzyquilts.com #fatquarterpattern #improvquilt

Sew Along Schedule

The Shine quilt sew along includes lots of added tips and videos to help you make this modern quilt pattern. This fat quarter quilt pattern is beginner friendly and focuses on improv sewing. suzyquilts.com #fatquarterpattern #improvquilt

Shine Sew Along Week 5 & 6 Tasks

We're still doing the same thing, ya'll! We are making 4 blocks each week for a grand total of 16 blocks after Week 6. Now I don't know about you, but I have had SO MUCH FUN tossing around all of my strips and randomly sewing them together.

I know it's easy to say "random" when truthfully there is some planning behind it, but I can honestly say NONE of my strip sewing was planned. The only thing I made sure not to do was sew two of the same color strips together. Other than that it has been a complete free-for-all – and I've loved it!

The Shine quilt sew along includes lots of added tips and videos to help you make this modern quilt pattern. This fat quarter quilt pattern is beginner friendly and focuses on improv sewing. suzyquilts.com #fatquarterpattern #improvquilt
The Shine quilt sew along includes lots of added tips and videos to help you make this modern quilt pattern. This fat quarter quilt pattern is beginner friendly and focuses on improv sewing. suzyquilts.com #fatquarterpattern #improvquilt

Like I said before, check out Week 3 and Week 4 posts for added tips on making these blocks. Also, don't forget to watch the private video tutorial that comes with the pattern.

The Shine quilt sew along includes lots of added tips and videos to help you make this modern quilt pattern. This fat quarter quilt pattern is beginner friendly and focuses on improv sewing. suzyquilts.com #fatquarterpattern #improvquilt

The Week 5 Sponsor & Prize

In Week 5 we have TWO fantastic sponsors for you to salivate over. Our first sponsor, Finch Knitting and Sewing Studio, is an adorable fabric shop that has a brick and mortar location in Leesburg, VA as well as a huge selection of fabric, notions and yarn online! In our prize package, Finch will be giving away a scrummy fat quarter bundle – which is perfect for making another Shine quilt! 😉

Our second sponsor will be there for you once you finish your Shine quilt top. Lavender Fields Company is a longarm quilting service offering FREE longarm quilting on one throw-sized quilt. Hooray!! You can pick from their wide selection of edge-to-edge patterns or find one elsewhere, since they are always adding to their pattern collection.

How to Win

  • Post a pic to Instagram. The photo prompt for Instagram this week is to post a picture of your Shine quilt progress. Use #ShineQuiltSA in the caption.
  • You must have a public Instagram profile to participate.
  • Each photo posted is an entry and you can enter as many times as you want in a single week. Once the week is over, those posts do not count in the next week's giveaway. Every week we start fresh.
  • Your photo must be posted between 12:00 a.m. CT on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 and 1:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday, October 27, 2020.
  • This prize is open internationally.
  • The winner will be picked randomly from all qualifying posts and announced at approximately 4:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday, October 27, 2020.
The Shine quilt sew along includes lots of added tips and videos to help you make this modern quilt pattern. This fat quarter quilt pattern is beginner friendly and focuses on improv sewing. suzyquilts.com #fatquarterpattern #improvquilt

The Week 6 Sponsor & Prize

Our Week 6 sponsor is one of my absolute favorite fabric shops, Fabricworm. The employees of Fabricworm are some of the sweetest and most creative people on the planet. As their giveaway prize, Fabricworm is offering Charley Harper fat quarter bundles to TWO different winners! How awesome is that??

  • Post a pic to Instagram. The photo prompt for Instagram this week is to post a picture of your Shine quilt progress. Use #ShineQuiltSA in the caption.
  • You must have a public Instagram profile to participate.
  • Each photo posted is an entry and you can enter as many times as you want in a single week. Once the week is over, those posts do not count in the next week's giveaway. Every week we start fresh.
  • Your photo must be posted between 12:00 a.m. CT on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 and 1:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.
  • This prize is open internationally.
  • The winner will be picked randomly from all qualifying posts and announced at approximately 4:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.
The Shine quilt sew along includes lots of added tips and videos to help you make this modern quilt pattern. This fat quarter quilt pattern is beginner friendly and focuses on improv sewing. suzyquilts.com #fatquarterpattern #improvquilt

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