Vicki, HollyAnne and Kristin are back for week 2 of their blog hop from my new book, Piece and Quilt with Precuts. Each of these talented gals is making a different quilt from the book and sharing tips and videos about their progress over a 5 week period.
So let’s check out what they’ve been up to this week!
Vicki Holloway from My Creative Corner 3
Vicki is making progress on her version of Gridwork using my Modern Marks fabric. For the finished quilt she’s going to make it completely out of my fabric. However, in her blog post, she’s made a few bonus blocks incorporating some solids to show how that can change up the look.
Vicki took some of her leftover scraps and pieced a Frequency block (also from the book). Her plan is to make one block from each of the quilts in the book to make a sampler quilt. I think that’s such a clever idea and can’t wait to see it!
Click here to read more about Vicki’s progress this week.
HollyAnne Knight from String and Story
For her version of Spools, HollyAnne is doing something I recommend in all of my books and classes – make a quilting plan to audition possible design ideas. I love how she’s combined different quilting designs from all three of my books for the spool blocks:
Here’s her finished quilt top, also made from my Modern Marks fabric. Don’t you just love how she reversed the color placement? Now they look like empty spools!
Compare it to the original version that’s in the book, to see how different a quilt can look when you switch the color placement. I really love it when quilters take my ideas and make them their own!!
Spools quilt, made by Christa Watson, from Piece and Quilt with Precuts
Click here to read more about HollyAnn’s progress this week.
Kristin Esser From Kristin Esser.Com
Kristin whipped up her Squiggles quilt top in record time. It’s easy when you start with most of the cutting already done for you!
She quilted the wavy lines as shown in the book, using my “divide and conquer” process. In a nutshell, you quilt wavy lines “near” the ditch (rather than in the ditch) and then you subdivide each section, adding more lines until you are happy with the spacing. It’s organic, liberating, and adds lots of yummy texture to the quilt!
Kristin also quilted several of the free-motion quilting motifs on practice blocks.
Click here to see her progress this week, plus bonus free-motion inspiration.
Remember – if you are working on any of the quilts from my books and patterns, please share them in my Facebook group: Quilt with Christa. I’d love to see!
Christa Quilts 
Love the various ways they took your patterns and made quilts theirs. I look forward to seeing more.