Centred QAL - Fabric Requirements and Colouring Sheet

I am so pleased to hear how many are going to quilt along or seriously contemplating quilting along with me. Although it truly feels like hard work to make yourself do some 'normal' things in life, it really does help with the mental aspect of all of this, doesn't it? Whether I'm making myself write the posts, do the homework behind the scenes, or do my Island Batik work, or practice yoga, or teach yoga online, it is good for me as I, like most of us, struggle a bit (or a lot, may depend on the day or the hour) with finding some sort of balance. It's not the people part I am missing, which my family will find as a bit of a surprise because they thought Brady and I would have the most trouble, but we've both been coping well in that regard. It is the normalcy, the things I take for granted that I miss, like grocery shopping, just popping in to Shoppers to nab something, touching nothing outside of my home and yard, touching my face or itching my nose or my ear without freaking about it, and so on.  However, that's really, when I sit back and reread that, not much of a hardship. At. All. Think of those who are homeless. Those in refugee camps where an outbreak would be deadly. Those in extended care, or seniors' residences. Those who live in apartments and in order to go to a grocery store, or even to go just to pick up their online order like I did, have to go into an elevator or down flights of stairs, rather than drive in their 'bubble' of a vehicle and have it loaded into the truck bed... There... I'm good now.

Okay! I know there are a lot of peeps in QBL waiting for this post, so without further ado, here we go!


** I've heard from a few that the colouring page is blank. I dunno, gremlins got into the MacBook between writing this post yesterday and it going live in the wee hours this morning. I think it is fixed now...

The quilt is constructed of strips. It is quilted simplicity at its finest. 😄 Rather than yardage, I have given you the number of strips you need, so that you can use a jelly roll if you like, or cut the strips from yardage, or combine light blues, for example, to make up the required number. Here is a chart to simplify the cutting process.
Note that the total strips needed are (17) 2 1/2" strips and (14) 1 1//2" strips. Those are broken down beneath that line into the shades of blue I used.

Note that the fabric requirements are based on 43" width of fabric (WOF).

Here is a photo again of the quilt for your reference. Because I was required to use as many fabrics in the 'Prairie Skies' line I was given, I used a few light blues, and two dark blues. The medium I used is the feathers chop. (Batiks are referred to as chops, not prints.) The white I used is not a solid; it actually has a bit of a grey-blue cast to it. Make sure you have good contrast there, as well as where the navy goes; this will help the centre block to pop.

So if you want, you could break down the eight required light blue strips into four strips of two light blues, or eight different light blue strips! The navy blues are almost all 1 1/2" strips; you could do all twelve in one navy and the three 2 1/2" in another. If you do not want to do a monochromatic (one colour) quilt, I'd suggest gathering a few 2 1/2" and 1 1/2" strips or maybe fat quarters or 3/8 yard of several colours, and wait to look at the cutting to see how they're divided up. You can always use the colouring chart too to try out various colour schemes.  If you have any questions, please ask in the comments, and I will answer there in case others have the same ones.

Here is the link to the PDF Colouring Chart.

Go forth and gather your strips; I'll be back next week with how you are going to slice them up.

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