Aneloski Liz - Smash your precut stash!: 13 quilts using your jelly rolls, charm squares & fat quarters with yardage

Publisher: Amy Marson

Creative Director: Gailen Runge

Art Director: Kristy Zacharias

Editor: Liz Aneloski

Technical Editors: Nanette S. Zeller and Debbie Rodgers

Cover/Book Designer: April Mostek

Page Layout Artist: Katie McIntosh

Production Coordinator: Freesia Pearson Blizard

Production Editor: Joanna Burgarino

Illustrator: Jenny Davis

Photo Assistant: Mary Peyton Peppo

Photography by Diane Pedersen, unless otherwise noted

Published by C&T Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 1456, Lafayette, CA 94549

Dedication

We would like to dedicate this book to Kates cousin Irene and Irenes husband, Wayne, who lost his battle with cancer while we were writing this book.was the original inspiration for our endeavor.

Acknowledgments

First, a great big Thank-you! to all our fellow quilters who contributed to this book. We are so glad we have a chance to showcase your work! Your quilts are beautiful.

Wendy E. Arend

Karen Ayotte

Sandra Carminati

Alyssa Colleran DesRosier

Virginia Charmion Ganucheau

Debbie Gilbert

Sharon Jarvis

Irene Markman

Laura McCarrick

We have had the good fortune to work with an amazing group of machine quilters. They took our lovely quilts and made them spectacular! A great big thank-you to each and every one for the great job; our quilts would not be the same without you.

Laura McCarrick of Always Keep Quilting

Crystal Zagnoli of The Quilted Cricket

Januari Rhodes of Jans Quiltn

Pilar Joy of Rumford Quilting

Sandi Verbridge of Sandis Quilted Touch

Victoria Shelton of The Thread Loft

Allison Brown of Allisons Quilting & Embroidery

Connie White of Goldenbells Quilting

Thank you to everyone at C&T Publishing for giving us this opportunity. It was a great experience! Thanks especially to Roxanne Cerda, Gailen Runge, Nanette S. Zeller, April Mostek, and Liz Aneloski.

This list would not be complete without thanking the quilt shops, quilters, and our quilting buddies who visit with us on the web. Thank you for all your support.

Kate wants to thank her familyespecially her husband, Jim, who helps out with the business and provides technical support and a shoulder to lean on. And her boys, Sean and Scott, who inspire her every day, and her daughter, Alyssa, who acts as a fabric and design consultant and made quilts for the book. Love you all!

Elizabeth owes a big thanks to Kate, who really does the bulk of the work and has helped Elizabeth along her quilting journey. Elizabeth would also like to thank her family and friends, especially Vince and Michael, for their continued support, and her cat, Stanley, for snuggle testing all the quilts. But hey, family may I please finally replace that tied tree skirt?

We want to thank the following companies who generously provided beautiful fabrics and batting for our projects. We had such fun playing and creating with them.

Art Gallery Fabrics

Henry Glass & Co.

Hobbs Bonded Fibers

Hoffman California Fabrics

Moda Fabrics

Quilt Soup, Barbara Jones

Riley Blake Designs

Robert Kaufman Fabrics

Timeless Treasures

Windham Fabrics

We also used some fun fabrics and threads from the following companies:

Andover Fabrics

Aurifil

Blank Quilting

Michael Miller Fabrics

Northcott

P&B Textiles

South Sea Imports

Superior Threads

Westminster Fibers

Introduction

Hello quilting friends!

Have you ever wandered into a quilt store, laid your eyes on a wonderful bundle of fat quarters, and just couldnt resist? You just knew you could turn that beautiful little collection into a great quilt. Right?

Only now, it is two years later (oopsmore?) and that bundle is still sitting on your shelf, still wonderful, but no closer to becoming a beautiful quilt than when you bought it.

Sound familiar?

Maybe you wandered into the quilt store looking for fabrics for a project, and then you saw it. The cutest little charm packoh, the fabrics were darling! You just had to have it! What to do with it? No worries, you will think of something. Or maybe it was a jelly roll that you couldnt keep your hands off.

Yeah, weve got those too.

This book will help you to turn all those fun stacks of fabric in your stash into something truly wonderful! We have designed thirteen great quilts to use up those jelly rolls, fat quarter bundles, and charm squaresno matter when you bought them.

We will talk you through mixing fabrics. We know its scary, but its okay. Really. We are here to help. And weve thrown in a few smaller projects and a couple of quilts where we change it up and add some extra borders. Sound good? Then lets get mixing!

Lets Mix It Up!

The Stash

As quilters, we all have a stash. We love our fabric! The big question is, Why dont we use our stash? Well, there are as many reasons for that as there are quilters. But lets explore a few of the common reasons.

You bought it a while ago and it just no longer floats your boat. Quilters are notoriously frugalsome of us even turn scraps into quilts! But that shelf of unwanted fabrics can really stymie our creativity. Looking at things like that makes us feel guilty because we bought it and now we dont want to use it!

So, do something!

One idea would be to turn the fabric into a charity quiltwe have a couple of great patterns in the book that are not hard to dowhy not use .)

You love it and just cant bear to cut it up. We get that. Some people collect stamps, other people collect coins, and quilters collect fabric. Enjoy it, pet itjust dont hide it away and forget about it! You could display it on a shelf (not a shelf that gets direct sunlight of course) and just refold it every few months to prevent fade lines and permanent creases. But that way, you can see it, enjoy it, and get inspired by it!

You love it, you want to use it, but you dont know what to do with it! When you bought it, you were sure you were going to create something amazing, but something else came up and now you dont know what to do.

Thats where we come in. Lets chat about how to start using those beautiful jelly rolls, charm packs, and fat quarter bundles that we have collected over the years and turn them into great quilts!

Color TheorySort Of

A little dash of this, a little pinch of that ... just like any good recipe, it is all in the mix!

Many quilters like kits. Why? They dont have to worry about choosing prints or colorsit is all done for them. Mixing colors and fabrics is scary for many people. Many quilters like using fabrics from the same line, and why not? The fabric companies have made it so easy for us. With a mix of small- and large-scale prints and blenders, we know the fabrics will all match perfectly, so it is hard to pass up.