A few weeks ago, Alyssa from Pile O Fabric contacted me about being a part of the Totally Groovy QAL.  And although I won't be making this quilt right now, I really love it and wanted to help her get the word out about the QAL!  She wrote up this post to make it easy on everyone involved, so if you like the "groove" quilt you see above, read on! Also, I'll be giving a copy of the pattern away on July 28th, so make sure and check back then!

 

Pile O' Fabric has partnered up with Carolina Patchworks (Emily Cier) who is an amazing quilt designer and writer. She wrote Scrap Republic, Quilt Remix, and Pixel Play (coming soon). You can see her work in Modern Blocks, and she is one of the 16 Iconic Quilt Designers in the newly released book, We Love Color.

For this Quilt Along we will be using Emily's Groove Quilt Pattern, which Emily will be offering at a discount for all QAL participants. It might seem a bit intimidating, but Emily assures it is much easier than it looks! This will nevertheless be a challenging Quilt Along in Solid Color Selection and Curve Piecing, but still achievable for the newer quilter—and rewarding, too! As you quilt along there will be wonderful tutorials and advice on fabric selection, piecing curves, and quilting techniques from amazing quilters. Emily's patterns are very easy to follow and always have instructions for crib, lap, twin, queen, and king. You are welcome to make this quilt any way you see fit, so if you prefer to use prints then go for it! It will be neat to see everyones own
interpretation.

Here are the current scheduled posts for the Quilt Along. We will be learning the ins and outs of curve piecing from amazing quilters Emily Cier, Jacquie Gering, Amanda Woodruff, and Kate Conklin. We will also be getting some Groovy Quilting tips from Quilting Extraordinaire Angela Walters. This will be a fantastic learning experience, and a great opportunity to meet some new quilting friends!

• August 2nd - Planning and Choosing your Fabric (and if you need fabric, I’ve
  arranged for a 20% discount on Kona Cotton at Fat Quarter Shop)
• August 9th - Meet the Totally Groovy Designer, Emily Cier
• August 16th - Cutting your templates
• August 22nd - Intro to Curves Piecing by Alyssa Lichner
• August 23rd - Piecing Traditional Curves by Jacquie Gering at Tallgrass
  Prairie Studio
• August 30th - Piecing Curves without Pins by Kate Conklin at Kate Conklin
  Designs
• September 6th - Piecing Curves without Pins by Emily Cier at Carolina Patchworks
• September 7th - Piecing Curves with a Curve Master Foot by Amanda Woodruff
  at A Crafty Fox
• September 13th - Putting all the pieces together, finishing your quilt top
• September 20th - Choosing a Backing Design
• September 27th - A Look at Emily Cier's New Book Pixel Play
• October 4th - Totally Groovy Quilting Tips by Angela Walters from Quilting is my
  Therapy
• October 18th - Wrapping up and linky party begins
• October 25th - Submissions do for Grand Prize Winners

Throughout the course of the QAL, participants will have the chance to win
AMAZING prizes from the following Sponsors. For exact prize details you can visit Pile O' Fabric

The Pattern

Carolina Patchworks will be offering all QAL Participants a discount on her
pattern.

• 20% off 2 or more (a great chance to get another one of Emily's wonderful
  patterns) code: TOTALLYGROOVY
• 15% off Groove Paper Pattern code: GROOVEPAPER
• 15% off Groove PDF Pattern code: GROOVEPDF

The Fabric

Fat Quarter Shop is offering all QAL Participants a 20% Discount on all KONA cotton from now till August 30th using code: Sewing101

Pile O' Fabric is having a giveaway for a Totally Groovy Quilt Package!
Everything you need to join the fun $75 to The Fat Quarter Shop to get your fabric and a Groove Quilt Pattern to Quilt Along! This giveaway ends July 31st.

Flickr Group

Join the flickr group, which can be found here.
This will be a great place for us to come together and share photos of our
progress and get to know each other.

Totally Groovy Button

If you’d like to let people know what fun you are up to or invite your
friends to join here is a button!

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Sign up and be entered into a drawing to win a pattern!

Pile O' Fabric would like to get an
approximate head count of you all. If you plan to join and Quilt Along please fill out the sign up form, this will NOT commit you to anything. If you sign up you will be entered into a drawing to win 1 of 10 Groove Patterns (paper).

For complete details of The Totally Groovy Quilt Along you can visit Alyssa
at Pile O' Fabric.

Promotional Partners

If you want more chances to win a Groove Pattern then check out these other blogging friends who have offered to help promote the QAL. Some will be giving patterns away!

• July 14th - Taryn @ Pixels to Patchwork
• July 16th - Jacey @ JaceyCraft
• July 17th - Angela Walters @ Quilting is my Therapy
• July 18th - Tessa @ The Sewing Chick
• July 19th - Erica @ Kitchen Table Quilting
• July 20th - Kelly @ Live. Love. Create
• July 21st - Jacquie @ Tallgrass Praire Studio
• July 22nd - Jennifer @ Ellison Lane Quilts
• July 23rd - Heidi @ Fabric Mutt
• July 24th - Beth @ Plum and June
• July 25th - Barbara @ Monumental Quilts
• July 26th - Allegory @ Sew Allegorical
• July 27th - Danny @ Mommyforreals
• July 28th - Penny @ Sew Take a Hike
• July 31st - Amanda @ A Crafty Fox
• August 1st - Kate @ Kate Conklin Designs

Okay everyone time to get your Quiltin' Groove on!! :)

Comments

[simone]

This looks like a great QAL! So different from other quilts I have seen. And I would love to learn the curve sewing and actually use it.
Now, I have a question. I want to make the lap size. Will it be made with smaller templates or will just a part of the quilt be made?
Looking forward to start choosing the colors. Might even use the ones Emily chose. So pretty!

[Holly]

This QAL is so tempting! I just found the blog Pile of Fabric yesterday and it looks like she's got everything really organized. I'm a huge fan of solids and just started playing with sewing curves. Maybe I'll give it a try!

[Megan]

Just saw this quilt in person and it is a stunner! Thanks for the QAL info.