Cut, Sew, Repeat with Cheryl Arkison

The first week in December, Cheryl Arkison offered a Party Class on Zoom called “Cut, Sew, Repeat” as part of her Quilters Playcation series.

You could choose any size blocks you wanted to work with, as long as they weren’t really small. I had a set of fat quarters and some matching solids so I went with large format blocks. I was going to cut the fat quarters down to a smaller size, which I really prefer working with, but realized I was going to be adding a lot more fabric to my bin of scraps if I did that. So, large it was.

I used two of the fat quarters and ended up looking in my stash for another fabric—the orange dots. That made a total of 7 fabrics, repeating the solids in the block sets. I also varied how I cut the fabrics in the block sets.

In the end, the blocks finished at 14 inches square. The top and bottom borders are trimmings from squaring up the blocks. That made the quilt a little rectangular and was a good way to use the leftover off-cut strips of fabric.

This class was a lot of fun and I really like the quilt. It was also super fast to sew. Cheryl said she’d definitely repeat this class in the future. Check out her future offerings at QuiltersPlaycation.com in the Parties box.