Finished Modern Yardage Quick Curve Ruler Star Block Quilt

At the end of June, I posted about a new quilt I had started featuring some Modern Yardage fabric called Personality by Emilie Daly.

I set to work cutting the fabric and trying out my new Quick Curve Ruler (blogged about here and here) to make these star blocks. The blocks themselves used almost exactly the two yards of fabric that I received from Modern Yardage - talk about a happy accident since I didn't plan that! I pieced the blocks together and then added a border to make it a bit bigger. Here's how it turned out.

For the backing and binding, I pulled colors that I had on-hand in my stash that went with the Carefree colorway of the Personality fabric.

I wanted to try out my echo quilting foot so I free-form followed the shape in the negative space between the blocks. It was a bit tricky getting the hang of using the echo foot. By the time I hit the center of each section, my lines were more curved rather than boxy so I'll definitely need to practice more. I love the texture it created though.

What I'm Working On: A Quilt Featuring Personality by Emilie Daly for Modern Yardage

I've recently had the opportunity to work with some fabric from the new manufacturing company based here in Utah called Modern Yardage. I met April Cobb, the owner, at Sewing Summit last year. When she told me about her idea for this new way of digitally printing fabric on demand, I was really intrigued by the idea. (I secretly wished I could have a machine like that of my own.)

If you want to learn more about this company, Craft Buds wrote a great article during the company's launch in March. You can read it here.

One of the great things about Modern Yardage is that your order is printed in a resourceful way. This shows two yards printed in fat quarters on the least amount of space possible.



The width of fabric is 58" so you can fit a full yard, and there's extra space for instructions, designer highlights, advertisements, etc. This feature is about Emilie Daly, designer of the Personality line, which I received in the Carefree colorway.



After receiving the fabric, I cut up the fat quarters and set to work on a quilt based on the Quick Curve Ruler star block from Sew Kind of Wonderful. Another cool thing about the way Modern Yardage prints is that since they use environmentally-friendly inks, the process is eco-conscious and the colors are really vibrant. You can also choose the scale of each print. So if you're working on a project where a lot of the fabric is visible, then you can use the large scale prints. In my case, I wanted small to medium scale prints since I knew I'd be cutting the pieces up a fair amount.



Here are the twelve blocks I made.

























The background is Kona white and the Modern Yardage fabrics actually feel a lot like Kona cotton to me.

I've pieced the blocks together, but still plan on adding an outer border. I'll post about the full quilt as soon as I finish it (which will hopefully be soon since I've loved working on this project).