Perfect 10 Sampler {Quilt}

Perfect................Excellent, Foolproof, Ideal, Impeccable, Pure, Splendid, Superb.

The Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt hits all those notes!  And making any of the quilts with the blocks Fat Quarter Shop used from the Perfect 10 Quilts Book along with the companion Creative Grids Perfect 10 ruler can make your Layer Cake dreams come true!

I had a lot of fun putting these blocks together.  It had been quite a while since I was able to piece and quilt and it gave me the ability to get a good sense of my new studio workspace. 

I wish I would have had time to do some glorious baptist fans with these reproduction fabrics.  However, I was still setting up Ole Besty Longarm after my hardwood floors had been installed with a looming deadline, so meandering quilting was the quick pattern I needed. 

I wouldn't say I'm a "purple girl", but all of the purple reproduction prints just begged me to pull some purples from my stash to make a pieced backing.

 I loved using this tiny purple flower print for the binding.  I even machine stitched the binding this time.   I was anxious to mail this off to a dear friend and the time it takes to hand-stitching had me uneasy.

I was very excited to donate this quilt at the school she works for.  Every little bit counts!!

 I always use a simple printed label on fabric for commissions and donations.

Quilt Stats:

 Measures: 63" x 72"

Pattern: Perfect 10 Sampler by It's Sew Emma/Fat Quarter Shop

Fabric: Various Reproduction Prints

Quilted:Meandering quilting on HQ Avante with Superior Threads Natural White

 If this quilts interests you and you need more information about this quilt along?

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Introduction:  Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along
Week 1:  Banana and Birthday Cake Blocks 

Week 2: Buttered Pecan and Coconut Blocks 
Week 3: Coffee and Cookie Dough Blocks
Week 4: Cookies 'n Cream and Cotton Candy Blocks

Week 5: Dutch Chocolate and French Vanilla Blocks

 Week 6: Lemon Sorbet and Mint Chocolate Chip Blocks

Week 7: Neapolitan Blocks with Peaches 'n Cream Block

 Week 8: Rainbow Sherbet and Rocky Road Blocks

 If you want to see other quilters ideas with this quilt, I encourage you to check out these other bloggers.  We are all posting our versions today!

Cynthia of Dream Quilt Create

Gina of Thread Grafitti

Greg of Grey Dogwood Studio

Heidi of Buttons and Butterflies

Jennie of Porch Swing Quilts

Kim of Persimon Dreams

Melanie of A Bit of Scrap Stuff

Pam of Pam Kitty Morning

Sinta of Pink Pincushion

Sondra of Out of the Blue Quilts

  

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Neapolitan and Peach 'n Cream blocks {Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along}

It's week 7 of the Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along with the Fat Quarter shop...only one more week and we can put together our blocks for a finished quilt top!

Neapolitan Blocks

All these purples are inspiring me to use purple for the backing and binding.

I adore the color pattern arrangement suggested in the book.  I can see them in rainbows!

Peaches 'n Cream Block

Who doesn't like a flying geese pattern?  

One layer cake for this quilt makes my favorite lap size, a 64" square quilt.  

After making this block with these colors, it has convinced me to use them for a spring quilt in the future!

If these blocks have you interested and you need more information about this quilt along?
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Introduction:  Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along
Week 1:  Banana and Birthday Cake Blocks 

Week 2: Buttered Pecan and Coconut Blocks 
Week 3: Coffee and Cookie Dough Blocks
Week 4: Cookies 'n Cream and Cotton Candy Blocks

Week 5: Dutch Chocolate and French Vanilla Blocks

 Week 6: Lemon Sorbet and Mint Chocolate Chip Blocks

 If you want to see other quilters ideas with these blocks, I encourage you to check out these other bloggers.  We are all posting our versions today!

Cynthia of Dream Quilt Create

Gina of Thread Grafitti

Greg of Grey Dogwood Studio

Heidi of Buttons and Butterflies

Jennie of Porch Swing Quilts

Kim of Persimon Dreams

Melanie of A Bit of Scrap Stuff

Pam of Pam Kitty Morning

Sinta of Pink Pincushion

Sondra of Out of the Blue Quilts

  

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Lemon Sorbet and Mint Chocolate Chip blocks {Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along}

It's Week 5 of the Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along with the Fat Quarter Shop!

This is the point where I sometimes lose some steam, but I love the fabrics for these blocks!

Lemon Sorbet Blocks

I just HAD to use yellow prints.  

And the ducklings with umbrellas to coordinate in green?  Magic, right?

These blocks with simple HSTs make for a great modern looking quilt together.  I could see myself making an entire quilt with just two colors and the background.

Mint Chocolate Chip Block

I had to keep the green and yellow theme going with this block.  But that pop of purple flower was everything to me.  Its screams grandma's fresh vintage sheets, doesn't it?

Another really interesting block that can be made to look like a X or an O.  The book has a delightful example of it!

If these blocks have you interested and you need more information about this quilt along?
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Introduction:  Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along
Week 1:  Banana and Birthday Cake Blocks 

Week 2: Buttered Pecan and Coconut Blocks 
Week 3: Coffee and Cookie Dough Blocks
Week 4: Cookies 'n Cream and Cotton Candy Blocks

Week 5: Dutch Chocolate and French Vanilla Blocks

 If you want to see other quilters ideas with these blocks, I encourage you to check out these other bloggers.  We are all posting our versions today!

Cynthia of Dream Quilt Create

Gina of Thread Grafitti

Greg of Grey Dogwood Studio

Heidi of Buttons and Butterflies

Jennie of Porch Swing Quilts

Kim of Persimon Dreams

Melanie of A Bit of Scrap Stuff

Pam of Pam Kitty Morning

Sinta of Pink Pincushion

Sondra of Out of the Blue Quilts

  

You can join also us on Instagram

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 and share your creations on Instagram with us!!

Cookies 'n Cream and Cotton Candy Blocks {Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along}

The Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along is still rolling along and this week's blocks are the Cookies 'n Cream and Cotton Candy blocks.

I think these two blocks are soooo yummy that I can't stand it. The fabrics I chose.  The patterns are relatively simple and yet they make complicated finishes.  Those are always the best kind of blocks in my opinion.

I had to take pictures of them together because I really loved how the two blocks complement each other, despite the fact that they will be in different parts of the sampler finished top.

Cookies 'n Cream Block

I LOVE this block as a full block.  You could not go wrong with a full scrappy quilt.  Each block a different color.  An entire quilt in two colors.  

Not in the mood for an entire quilt?  Just the block alone as a pillow is fun!!

 As for the fabrics?  When I read the word cream, I instantly thought of coffee or cats.

 And then the coordinating pink fabric I had just seemed to compliment it so well!

Aren't the little ducks adorable too?

Cotton Candy Block

There isn't a baseball game or fairgrounds visit that goes by that I don't have a yummy bag of cotton candy in my hands.  I can probably eat a whole bag faster than my kids.

I honestly don't think that I have a favorite flavor, but this print had a "fluffy" feeling to me.
Out of all of the full quilts, hubby loves this block the most.  I'm still deciding what layer cake from Fat Quarter Shop is my favorite to make him one!

If these blocks have you interested and you need more information about this quilt along?
 Just click below to learn more about the quilt along!

Introduction:  Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along
Week 1:  Banana and Birthday Cake Blocks 

Week 2: Buttered Pecan and Coconut Blocks 
Week 3: Coffee and Cookie Dough Blocks

 If you want to see other quilters ideas with these blocks, I encourage you to check out these other bloggers.  We are all posting our versions today!

Cynthia of Dream Quilt Create

Gina of Thread Grafitti

Greg of Grey Dogwood Studio

Heidi of Buttons and Butterflies

Jennie of Porch Swing Quilts

Kim of Persimon Dreams

Melanie of A Bit of Scrap Stuff

Pam of Pam Kitty Morning

Sinta of Pink Pincushion

Sondra of Out of the Blue Quilts

  

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 and share your creations on Instagram with us!!

Coffee and Cookie Dough Blocks {Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Sew Along}

It's week 3 of the Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along with Fat Quarter Shop!

Sometimes I lose interest in a quilt along and keeping up with blocks, but the blocks for this quilt are so simple and easy...and I love the way they showcase the fabrics I chose!

This week we are making two Coffee blocks and one Cookie Dough block unit.

Coffee Block

The fabric choices were just too easy this time. 

Roosters for dragging myself out of bed and the mandatory two coffee cups for me to be human.

And a little marching band man...reminiscent of me marching around and saying "Get up! Get Up!" and then "Get dressed! Get Dressed!" and "Eat! Eat!" and "TIME TO GO!!!!" on school day mornings!

The full quilt with this block has a Irish chain feel to it and is sooo fun!

Cookie Dough Block Unit

I chose this fabric for where it will be place on the sampler. It is close to the previous weeks blocks and complements the yellow and coconut colors.

 It is a probably the most unique fabric in the collection.

For the full quilt, you use four of these units to make up a block and it is a fabulous looking one!!

If these blocks have you interested and you need more information about this quilt along?
 Just click below to learn more about the quilt along!

Introduction:  Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along
Week 1:  Banana and Birthday Cake Blocks 

Week 2: Buttered Pecan and Coconut Blocks 

 If you want to see other quilters ideas with these blocks, I encourage you to check out these other bloggers.  We are all posting our versions today!

Cynthia of Dream Quilt Create

Gina of Thread Grafitti

Greg of Grey Dogwood Studio

Heidi of Buttons and Butterflies

Jennie of Porch Swing Quilts

Kim of Persimon Dreams

Melanie of A Bit of Scrap Stuff

Pam of Pam Kitty Morning

Sinta of Pink Pincushion

Sondra of Out of the Blue Quilts

  

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Buttered Pecan and Coconut Blocks {Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along}

 It's week 2 of the Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along with Fat Quarter Shop! 

If you haven't heard of it or you haven't started yet, it isn't too late!  These next blocks are a mixture of simple HSTs and corner square blocks to make interesting finishes.

This week, the sampler requires two Buttered Pecan Blocks and one Coconut Block.

Buttered Pecan Block 

My absolute favorite ice cream is Pralines and Cream. I love pecan pie. I LOVE PECANS. 

Since pecans are my favorite, I scanned my stack of fabrics and decided that I had to pick my favorite fabric.  I have loved this print since I acquired it.  It reminds me of my childhood books that were passed down from my aunts and mother.  

The incredibly fun orange print and the coordinating purple just makes it shine!

I think if you are planning a full quilt with this block? I would definitely be thoughtful of two fabrics working well with each other in each block.

I kept thinking of the sugar coated pecans in ice cream while piecing these blocks that I ended up running to the store to get some ice cream......

Coconut Block

I happened to be watching the movie, Practical Magic, when I was putting this set of blocks together and the lyrics "She put the lime in the coconut, she drank 'em bot' up..." from Harry Nilsson's Coconut song wouldn't leave my head.

 I KNEW I had to choose a green fabric for this block!

I find this block super interesting in a full quilt.  There is a really interesting secondary pattern that I would be tempted to explore with low volume fabrics as the blocks and a solid color as a background.

If these blocks have you interested and you need more information about this quilt along?
 Just click below to learn more about the quilt along!

Introduction:  Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along
Week 1:  Banana and Birthday Cake Blocks

 If you want to see other quilters ideas with these blocks, I encourage you to check out these other bloggers.  We are all posting our versions today!

Cynthia of Dream Quilt Create

Gina of Thread Grafitti

Greg of Grey Dogwood Studio

Heidi of Buttons and Butterflies

Jennie of Porch Swing Quilts

Kim of Persimon Dreams

Melanie of A Bit of Scrap Stuff

Pam of Pam Kitty Morning

Sinta of Pink Pincushion

Sondra of Out of the Blue Quilts

  

You can join also us on Instagram

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 and share your creations on Instagram with us!!

Banana and Birthday Cake Blocks {Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along}

Have you joined the Perfect 10 Quilt along fun?  Or are you thinking about it and need a nudge?

Either way, I can't recommend it enough!  I love that you can whip these blocks up quickly to catch up.  And I don't use the word "whip" lightly!  The names of these blocks are absolutely delectable!  I will admit, I missed the references to flavors of ice cream at first, but quickly caught on when I read "Mint Chocolate Chip" (that's a much later block and sooo much fun!)

But first...this weeks blocks!  The Banana and Birthday Cake Blocks!

Banana Block

 I found this great print from my stack of reproduction fabrics.  It reminded me of a banana that is just getting those tiny brown spots as it ripens.  I promise, with the clear instructions from the book you can't slip on this block like a banana peel on the floor!

And why do I have the sudden urge to make banana bread?!?!?
The full quilt with these blocks would be great all one color or with some really fun prints!

 Birthday Cake Block

 I'm grateful for my boys, but I sure do miss the "girly" cakes I would love to make.  This print with the purple and pink just said BIRTHDAY cake to me.  Sprinkles on my favorite icing...strawberry!

It's a great companion with the banana block with the dots of yellow!

When used in an entire quilt, it makes some incredible secondary designs. It would be great for someone who wanted to be thoughtful with color placement, but equally fun with a scrappy look!

If you need more information?  Just click below to learn more about the quilt along!

Introduction:  Perfect 10 Sampler Quilt Along

 If you want to see other quilters ideas with these blocks, I encourage you to check out these other bloggers.  We are all posting our results today!

Cynthia of Dream Quilt Create

Gina of Thread Grafitti

Greg of Grey Dogwood Studio

Heidi of Buttons and Butterflies

Jennie of Porch Swing Quilts

Kim of Persimon Dreams

Melanie of A Bit of Scrap Stuff

Pam of Pam Kitty Morning

Sinta of Pink Pincushion

Sondra of Out of the Blue Quilts

  

You can join also us on Instagram

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 and share your creations on Instagram with us!!