Welcome to week SIX, the final reveal week of the Sweet Home Quilt Along 2021, a QAL I'm co-hosting with my wonderful friend and talented artist Sharon Holland, the designer behind the adorable Sweet Home quilt pattern!
For week SIX, this final week of our QAL, it's time to reveal our finished Sweet Home quilts! Whether you have a completed quilt top to share, that you plan to send to a long arm quilter, like I do. Or if you completely finished your Sweet Home, quilted + bound, now is the time to photograph those beauties and celebrate! Below you can see the schedule we're following throughout the QAL, but of course we always encourage and want everyone to sew at their own pace!
To recap, the Sweet Home quilt pattern is designed by Sharon and is available in her SHOP, for those of you just finding out about our QAL. Throughout the quilt along I've been using the Cozy & Magical Quilt Kit available exclusively at Lady Belle Fabric! This version features prints from both of my new Art Gallery Fabrics collections, Cozy & Magical and Plaid of My Dreams. The color palette of this holiday collection is very sweet and I'm loving these prints paired with AGF's Pure Solid in Blushing for the background. I'm absolutely thrilled with how my Sweet Home holiday village came together!
As I mentioned above, I'll be sending my quilt top to Brooke at Lady Belle Fabric who offers an edge to edge long arm quilting service, Lady Belle Quilting, in addition to her amazing fabric shop! I finally decided on my Cozy & Magical quilt backing, Cristmastide Town print, and I can't wait to see it completely finished!
I'll be sure to share more photos of my Cozy & Magical Sweet Home once it's quilted, bound and completely finished. Based on how these quilt top photos turned out, it's going to be so adorable!
In addition to sharing the finale reveal of my Cozy & Magical Sweet Home quilt top I'm also so excited to share this completely finished, quilt & bound Sweet Home from our last Sweet Home QAL, that I'm a little embarrassed to admit I just finally bound over the weekend!
This version is made using a quilt kit by Lady Belle Fabric from our last QAL that is no longer available, but you can find a similar version still available HERE at the Midlife Quilter. The mix of colors and Art Gallery Fabrics prints created the sweetest Sweet Home!
Brooke at Lady Belle Quilting quilted this one, as well, and it's so amazing! The dense, quilting texture the overall quilt pattern adds is so stunning! This is why I LOVE having Brooke finish my quilts now!
As always, I hope my reveal quilt photos inspire your week six photos! I can't wait to see them! Be sure to post your photos on Instagram with our QAL hashtag #SweetHomeQAL2021, as well as tagging me @MaureenCracknell and @SharonHollandDesigns!
Now it's time to head on over to Sharon's blog if you haven't already, to check out her amazing Bookish Sweet Home quilt reveal, three new tutorial videos that she created to help makers this week, a special Zoom chat video with the owner of Lady Belle Fabric and long arm quilter, Brooke Becker, and to enter our amazing Grand Finale Giveaway with this week's sponsors, Art Gallery Fabrics, Fat Quarter Shop, Hobbs Batting and Lady Belle Fabric! You don't want to miss this one!
Thanks so, so much for joining us on this fun quilt along! xo Maureen