Nine Carat Quilt Along: Week 5

It’s Week 4 of our Nine Carat Quilt Along! I am SEW glad you are here! If you haven’t got your pattern yet, you can get the digital pattern from Cut Loose Press or the paper paper pattern from QBPN.

Videos for this week

I’ve been making lots of videos for this quilt along: demos, advice, reveals and such. Here’s the video I have for this week:

Assembling Your Quilt Top

I will be adding videos throughout the quilt along. You can view all of the currently available videos at any time in this playlist.

This is officially our last week of the quilt along, but I do have one video tutorial that I’m working on for you. I took a survey about which quilting design you would like to see me quilt this one in, and the winner was paisleys. I will have a new video for that on my YouTube soon, and maybe another blog post on finishing your quilt. Until then, here are some helpful links for finishing your quilts:

Basting your Quilt (from the Pinwheel Popper QAL)
Playlist with tutorials for different designs to quilt your quilt yourself
Demo for adding a corner quilt label with a chunky top stitch
Demo for adding a corner quilt lable with the easiest blind stitch EVER
Full binding tutorial playlist (one video per step)

On the Schedule for this Week

This week we’re going to put our quilt tops together! It’s hard to believe we are on our last week of the quilt along. It went by SEW fast!

This one is pretty straight forward. Arrange your blocks so that four backgournd snowballs meet up and four foreground snowballs meet up to form the diamonds.

Get a custom label for your quilt

Don’t forget to order your custom label! If you want a custom Nine Carat Quilt label with your name on it, you can get one! I order all of my labels from Melanie at Southern Charm Quilts/Meander and Make. They are great labels. You can order your Nine Carat Quilt label HERE (affiliate link). Use the coupon code SNUGGLEBUGSTITCHING at Meander and Make for 10% off.

Each Week on the Blog

I’ll link to all of the other weeks near the end of each post. I will add each post here as I have them. You can also find this on the Quilt Alongs Page.

Week 1 – Gather Fabrics & Cut Pieces
Week 2 – Make 9-Patches
Week 3 – Snowballs
Week 4 – Cut, Rearrange, and Resew your 9-Patches
Week 5 – You are currently at the Week 5 post

Prize for this Week

Our prize for this week, sponsored by Benartex is a lovely 10 Fat Quarter bundle from the “Faith & Grace” fabric line by Nicole DeCamp. These are the same 10 fat quarters that I used for the foreground of my quilt.

This prize is for US winners only due to shipping costs.

To be eligible for prizes:

– You must be following me and all our sponsors on Instagram and post at least one progress picture for the week on Instagram by Monday at 7:00 PM Central Time. You must tag me @snugglebugstitching in your posts and use the #ninecaratqal.

Here are the Instagram accounts you need to be following to be elligible for prizes:
@snugglebugstitching
@benartex_fabrics
@quiltbpn
@cutloosepress
@thegypsyquilter

-I will announce the winner on Instagram and tag the lucky quilt alonger so that they know they’ve won. The winner will have one week to contact me to claim the prize. Any unclaimed prizes will be forfeited.