Sew Out Loud Quilt Along- Sew La Tea

Welcome to week 11 of the Sew Out Loud Quilt Along! My block is called "Sew La Tea"-- can't you just hear the Von Trapp family singing a bit of "Do Re Mi" right now? The design features three whimsical spool teacups, on the verge of tumbling out of their stack.

It's a lot of fun choosing fabrics for each cup. A tip-- make sure to choose contrasting fabrics for your spools and tea cups so the design will really stand out! You can fussy cut your fabrics for the inside of the spools. I've also made a version that has free-pieced background sections. If you want to learn more about how to do free-piecing in your block, I'd recommend Sarah and Molly's Free Piecing Study.

Start by downloading and printing the templates here and full piecing diagram here. Remember that the templates are a mirror image of the block itself (see below), so that when you're finished sewing, you end up with with what you see in my completed examples.

Sew the pieces together in this order:

{(I+Q+H) +X+N+T+A} purple cup (part 1)

{(F+P+G)+B+S+M+V}green cup (part 2)

{(C+O+D)+E+R+U}orange cup (part 3)

Part 1+2+3+J+K

Don't forget to add your blocks to our Sew Out Loud Flickr group. Thank you to Kyrie (Shape Moth) for creating these templates for me in EQ7. And another big thanks to the Fat Quarter Shop for sponsoring this Quilt Along! And to you K3 my friend for helping me get this posted with links and everything.