Bias Tape: Mighty Lucky Challenge for January

Have you heard of the Mighty Lucky Quilting Club?  In this really fun monthly subscription, a quilt designer or teacher provides a challenge for us to work through using different techniques and design ideas. The whole thing is meant to stretch us, to teach us new things and to get us to try new techniques.

In January, we were taught how to make bias tape and then use it to design a block or a quilt.  At first, I wasn't really looking forward to it at all.  The whole technique looked tedious to me to be honest.  But then I got started drawing out a few ideas and then pulling out fabric and basically playing around.

In the end, I decided to go black and white and made one block.  And much to my surprise, I really liked using bias tape.  Oh the possibilities!

And then made three more blocks and sewed all four blocks together.  And I was in love!

For the quilting, I used my FMQ foot and white Aurifil 50 wt thread to quilt curves echoing the bias tape.

The binding is Kona White, the same as the background fabric, with just a touch of black.

This mini finishes at 19" square.

And with that, the January Challenge is complete!  And I will link this little finish at Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish It Up Friday and at Busy Hands Quilts for TGIFF.

Izzy