Destination: Quilt Along - Segment 3 Wrap Up & Completed Top!

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Have you been quilting along with the Destination: Quilt Along?? I am SO excited to share my finished quilt top with you!!

Quilt top using blocks as jumbo polaroid photos

All twelve blocks have been released, so now it's time for some prizes! And this time there are TWO different chances to enter!

Destination: Quilt Along

I will recap all the blocks in Segment 3, then tell you how to enter to win the prizes. And be sure to keep scrolling after that as I'll share the directions for how I made my quilt top!

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Block 9 is Road Trip by Karen at Tu-Na Quilts. Get the pattern HERE. You can read about my version HERE.

Road trip quilt block

Block 10 is Follow Your Arrow by Becca at Pretty Piney Quilts. Get the pattern HERE. Read about my version HERE. (Which you might have noticed that I added the words since my previous post!)

Travel sign quilt block

Block 11 is Hot Air Balloons by Sherry at Powered by Quilting. Get the pattern HERE. Read about my version HERE.

Hot Air Balloon quilt block

Block 12 is Modern Peaks by Bobbi at Snowy Days Quilting. Get the pattern HERE. Read about my version HERE. (I did change out the darkest color, though it doesn't seem to have made much difference in the photos!)

Mountain quilt block

So now all 12 blocks are complete! (Be sure to keep scrolling to see how I used all 12 blocks in my quilt top!)

All 12 quilt blocks in Destination: Quilt Along

There are TWO giveaways you can enter this time! One for finishing the four blocks in Segment 3 (blocks 9-12) AND one for finishing all 12 blocks!

If you want to enter the Segment 3 giveaway, complete all four blocks from Segment 3 by 7:59am ET on October 19 to be entered to win prizes! There are two ways to enter this giveaway (you only have to do one).

1. Share a picture of your finished blocks in the Facebook group! If you're posting on Instagram or Facebook, you can use the #destinationalQAL when you post a photo!

2. Add your link to the linky party just below this paragraph. (You can link up a Facebook post, blog post, or Instagram post!)

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

The Segment 3 prize is a six month subscription to Make Modern Magazine, a free pattern from Becca at Pretty Piney, and a $10 shop credit from Sherry at Powered by Quilting!

Segment 3 prize for Destination: Quilt Along

If you want to enter the grand prize giveaway, complete all 12 blocks by 7:59am ET November 16 to be entered to win! There are two ways to enter this giveaway (you only have to do one).

1. Share a picture of your finished blocks in the Facebook group! If you're posting on Instagram or Facebook, you can use the #destinationQAL when you post a photo!

2. Add your link to the linkky party just below this paragraph. (You can link up a Facebook post, blog post, or Instagram post!)

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

The grand prize includes an 80/20 Dream Cotton batting from Quilters Dream Batting and a fat quarter bundle from the Primo collection from Island Batik!

Grand prize for Destination: Quilt Along

Now to share my finished quilt top!

Quilt top using blocks as jumbo polaroid photos

I turned all my blocks into Polaroid pictures! Like a photo album of a vacation!

Quilt blocks turned into polaroid photo blocks

First, I framed each 12 1/2" block with white fabric to make the photos.

For this, I cut 1 1/4 yards of solid white fabric into (24) 1 1/2" x 12 1/2" strips, (12) 1 1/2" x 14 1/2" strips, and (12) 4" x 14 1/2" strips.

Next, I added gray fabric on all four sides of each "photo." 

For this, I cut 3 yards of solid gray fabric into (24) 4" x 17" strips and (24) 3" x 21" strips.

After sewing the gray fabric around the photos, I laid my ruler a bit "wonky" under the photo so that the ruler was 1" away from one corner of the photo and 2" away from the other corner of the photo. This created the bottom of the block. After lining up this cut edge with a line on my cutting mat, I then  trimmed it to 19 1/2" square. 

Trimming wonky blocks

I repeated for all the blocks, alternating which way I tilted each one.

Polaroid photo quilt blocks

I love how it turned out! A perfect way to display all the memories of this quilty adventure! I'm hoping to quilt it in the next couple weeks, so be on the lookout for the finished version!

Quilt top using blocks as jumbo polaroid photos

Want to see how the other hosts put all their blocks together?? Go check them out!


Let's all quilt along!

3 comments:

  1. This setting is absolutely brilliant! I love that you gave them all the same angle, and alternated which way they're tipped. It adds a really pleasing symmetry.

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  2. I've said it before but it bears saying again. YOU ARE VERY CREATIVE! I love this version. Clever way to display vacation memories (and quilt blocks).

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  3. Love Polaroid quilt and yours is perfect!

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