Quilty Box Hokey Pokey Crazy Quilt

This month’s Quilty Box was so awesome! I love the gear from Clover and the bright polka dotted fabrics:

Now I have a tendency to hoarde supplies, especially precut fabrics, for some magical day when I’m not busy and I have a master plan for doing amazing things with that gear. That’s my tendency, but my desire is to stop hoarding and start creating!

To stop myself from hoarding this cool stuff, I challenged myself to create a new project with each month’s Quilty Box! This month I opened the box to find an awesome assortment of quilting tools from Clover and some Riley Blake Polka Dot 5″ precuts. Watch this video to see how I transformed this simple fabric into one funky polka dot quilt!

The first step of this process was creating half square triangles with the polka dot fabric and solid precut squares.

Then we layered the half square triangles with more solid precut squares and stitched these units exactly the same way you create half square triangles to create Half Quarter Square Triangles. This is such a funky block and I can only imagine all the creative possibilities in different colorways and sizes!

Laying out this quilt was a challenge because I was trying to incorporate both the diamond shapes and pinwheels. Once I was happy with the layout, piecing this Hokey Pokey Crazy quilt was another crazy adventure! Our piecer employee pieced the bulk of this quilt top over two days and said without a doubt it’s the hardest quilt they’ve ever had to piece because it was so friggin CRAZY!

This quilt just makes me smile, smile, smile! The Hokey Pokey was a silly dance we did at the roller skating rink when I was growing up and seemed perfectly suited to name this bright, cheerful quilt.

So I challenged myself to use the materials in my Quilty Box to make a new throw sized quilt! What will you make with your new gear?

Remember, having cool stuff doesn’t make you creative. USING that gear to make something new and fun is the whole point!

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day