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Bottled Rainbows: ticker tape quilt-along

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At long last, it's time to do something fabulous with all your teeny tiny scraps!  Please join me in a leisurely quilt-along inspired by my bottled rainbows.  Each week we'll make just one rectangle ticker tape block.  Soon we'll be ready to piece and finish this baby.  Take a look!

You'll start wherever you like on the rainbow, making use of your scraps at hand.  Have lots of red, but no teal?   Worry not my dears.  You can put off your harder colors in favor of something more plentiful.  Months from now I bet you'll find yourself some volunteers if your scraps are as proliferous as mine!  Ooh, and for really pesky colors, we just may have to organize a scrappy swap!  You let me know, K?

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You know you want to! How else are you ever gonna enjoy all those scraps?  If you've never tickered before, I have to tell you that it's a completely user-friendly technique.  You simple cut scraps to size and sew them down on your background fabric.  That's it.  Technically, this is "applique" but without any kind of precision.  This is the same way I made my Mosaic Tree block!

 


Quilt-Along Posts

1.  Materials List

2.  How to Swap Scraps

3. Moving Forward (example block and more details)

4. Supplies Giveaway

5. All about Ticker Tape

6. How to Make a Bottled Rainbow Block

7. Join Right In + Tangerine Block

8. Your Creations

9. Raspberry Block

10. Joining Blocks

11. Plum Block + Your Creations

12. Materials for Finishing

13. Blue Blocks

14. Domesticity + Cerise Block

15. Rainbow Stacks

16. Green Blocks

17. Look at you! 

18. Teal Block

19. Hip, hip, hurrah!

20. Piecing & Adding Borders

21. Quilting

22. On my bed

23. Baby Bottled Rainbows! 

24. Updated Kona colors