Thank you so all so much for the warm reception of the Just Two Charm Pack Quilts book! I love being able to use my charm packs, get my stash into quilts, and share my patterns with you.
You can find all of the information and purchase the bundle in the Meadow Mist Designs pattern shop.
As part of the pre-sale bundle, everyone who pre-orders a book (physical, digital, or from other local shops if you are outside the US) gets an entry to win a purple version of the Somerville Circle Quilt.
ABOUT THE SOMERVILLE CIRCLE PATTERN
The Somerville Circle pattern is one of my favorites in the book. It does contain small pieces (and a lot of them), but the quilt top is pieced using mini strip pieces from the charm squares so the sewing goes quicker than it looks.
I named the quilt after the large traffic circle near my house growing up, Somerville Circle in New Jersey. It was a crazy traffic circle where 3 major highways came together and who had the right of way depending on which point you were at within the circle. I tried to avoid it as much as possible but it was really the only way to the mall growing up :)
MAIN COLORWAY
For the main colorway of Somerville Circle I used all Bonnie and Camille for Moda scraps in red as the charm squares paired with pink and white solids as the fabric A and the background. Having the prints be all of a similar tone and color I think really makes the circle pop against the supporting fabrics. The Bear Creek Quilting Company quilted this version in a swirl design. A fun stripey binding finished this quilt off.
ALTERNATE COLORWAY
The alternate colorway of Somerville Circle was made and quilted by Yvonne Fuchs of Quilting Jetgirl using Tula Pink's True Colors collection. Most of the quilts in the book have the prints spread randomly and evenly throughout the quilt top, but Yvonne organized the True Colors prints into a fantastic rainbow within the quilt top. This did take more planning and careful sewing, but the results are awesome. Yvonne used a combination of loops and stipples for the quilting. This is the main quilt on the cover of the book.
GIVEAWAY VERSION
For my giveaway version, I actually started pulling fabric starting with the background fabric. I have had this light purple Kaffe shot cotton (the warps are pink and the wefts are blue) in my stash and I thought that this would be the perfect place to use it.
From there, I added solid white fabric as fabric A and a bunch of magenta/purple scraps as the charm squares. Most of the charm squares are solids but there are a few prints as well. I actually do not have many purple fabrics so this used up most of my stash (and now I have an excuse to do a little fabric shopping :)
I backed the quilt using a fun, older Tula Pink print along with a little more of the Kaffe shot cotton, quilted it using a large stippled, and bound it using left over bits of the fabrics used for the charm squares.
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