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Thursday, November 23, 2023

A few months ago, Lysa Flower asked if I'd like to make a quilt with her new Drivin' Down 9 fabric collection, and of course I said yes! It was perfect for making a Suitcases quilt!

Suitcases quilt made with Drivin' Down 9 fabric
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The fabric is printed by Paintbrush Studios, and they do a cool thing with their fabric. They print fat quarters as yardage. So the fat quarter pack has 16 fat quarters of the collection printed as 4 continuous yards of fabric. 

Drivin Down 9 fabric by Lysa Flower

When I opened the fabric, I loved the little cars on the selvages!

Drivin Down 9 fabric by Lysa Flower

The Suitcases pattern goes together quickly, and I used my sewing machine laser so I didn't have to draw lines when doing the stitch and flip corners.

Sewing machine laser

You can learn more about the sewing machine laser on THIS post.

Sewing machine laser

I actually sewed most of the Suitcases while at my kids' homeschool co-op one Friday. I got all this done in just a couple hours!

Suitcases quilt made with Drivin' Down 9 fabric

Once the top was done, I loaded my backing fabric on my longarm with my SewTite Magnum magnets. I've had this backing fabric in my stash for YEARS. Likely close to 10 years. I was so excited to have a quilt to use it with!

SewTite Magnum magnets on longarm

I used an 80/20 batting from Batting Super Sale. I like to use bleached Hobbs batting when making a quilt with a light colored background fabric.

Suitcases quilt made with Drivin' Down 9 fabric

Using a cream colored thread, I free-motion quilted a medium meander design over the whole quilt.

Meander quilting on Suitcases quilt made with Drivin' Down 9 fabric

It took about 30 minutes to quilt the whole quilt!

Meander quilting on Suitcases quilt made with Drivin' Down 9 fabric

I used the scraps from the fat quarters to make a scrappy binding, then machine sewed it on. (Tutorial HERE.)

Machine sewing scrappy quilt binding

Overall, the quilt was a quick finish, and I love the fun fabrics!

Suitcases quilt made with Drivin' Down 9 fabric

Several of the prints feature vintage cars like El Caminos and Volkswagon Beetles.

Suitcases quilt made with Drivin' Down 9 fabric

And there are even fuzzy dice! This print takes me right back to my childhood. My dad has restored several vintage cars, and he would hang fuzzy dice from the rearview mirror. I spent many weekends at classic car shows when I was a kid!

Suitcases quilt made with Drivin' Down 9 fabric

Of course I sewed one of my satin labels into the binding too.

Suitcases quilt made with Drivin' Down 9 fabric

This is the fifth Suitcases quilt that I've made. See the others HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Suitcases quilt made with Drivin' Down 9 fabric

This would be such a fun quilt for taking on trips and using at hotels!

Suitcases quilt made with Drivin' Down 9 fabric

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Suitcases quilt made with Drivin' Down 9 fabric

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