January | 2020 | Heritage Threads

Have you heard of Fat Quarter Shop’s Sew Colorful Club?? Each month they send you a curated bundle of fat quarters that are all based off of one color. If you are looking for a really fun way to get a variety of fabrics into your stash, this is such a fabulous way to do so! The schedule of colors is as follows:

January (cream) – Fat Quarter Shop
February (pink) – Kim Lapacek of Persimon Dreams
March (green) – Corey Yoder of Coriander Quilts
April (gray) – Sherri McConnell of A Quilting Life
May (aqua) – Chelsi Stratton, Chelsi Stratton’s Blog
June (yellow) – Jen Van Orman of Heritage Threads
July (dark blue) – Amanda Niederhausen of Jedi Craft Girl
August (purple) – Melanie Call of A Bit of Scrap Stuff
September (orange) – Pat Sloan, Pat Sloan’s Blog
October (black) – Melissa Corry of Happy Quilting Melissa
November (brown) – Fat Quarter Shop
December (red) Doug of Antler Quilt Design

I am super excited to be participating in June with the color yellow. Yellow is not a color I generally use a lot. In fact, if you look in my stash, the color I have the least of is actually yellow. I thought this would be a really fun challenge to use yellow instead of a go-to like pink. 🙂

If you are interested in signing up, you can do so by clicking HERE.

My wheels are turning and I can’t wait to show you what I’ve come up with in June. I hope you’ll join in the fun and sew along with us!

Ever since I had my husband help me make some quilt block SVG files, I have wanted to make myself some new coasters using those files. I have heard a lot about Cricut Infusible Ink and this seemed like the perfect project to try out!

Here’s what you’ll need:

SVG quilt block file bundle 1 or bundle 2 from my Etsy shop

Cricut Infusible Ink Coasters (I prefer the ceramic ones)

Cricut Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets (I used party pink)

Cricut Easy Press 2 or other heat transfer source that reaches 400degrees F

I tried out making coasters with the square coasters and the round coasters. Here’s what I learned:

To use the square coasters, make sure your image is no larger than 3.5″ square. They don’t require as much time to process the infusible ink, but they also don’t feel as nice, in my opinion. For a Cricut tutorial, click HERE.

To use the round coasters, make sure your image is no larger than 3″. They require quite a bit more time of active heat to process the infusible ink, but in the end the result feels much nicer. For a Cricut tutorial, click HERE.

In the end, this was really such a fun project. I know I’ll be making them again as a quick creative reset.

Have you used infusible ink yet? What did you think of it??

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Monthly Archives: January 2020

Sew Colorful Club with Fat Quarter Shop

Quilt Block Coasters with Infusible Ink