Burlap Brights Block Hop - Block Tute

Welcome to Day 1 of the Benartex Burlap Brights Block Hop, let me start with a great big "hi" to my regular readers and a huge welcome to anyone visiting for the first time from the Benartex blog Sew in Love {with Fabric}.

Benartex, a leading supplier of 100% designer cotton prints, asked me to design a block for them as part of their Burlap Brights Block Hop using, you guessed it, 6 of their 26 new Burlap Brights fabrics.  The Block Hop continues over 11 days with a new block tute and giveaway each day - today's day 1 and, yay, it's my turn!!! 

Here're the fabrics I was given to work with - 6 fat quarters of Solid Burlap Brights:
red; bright green; blue; orange; sun; and grape.

All that colour and tone on tone visual texture really lives up to the fabric's name 'Burlap Brights' and needs a fun block to showcase it so this is what I designed - introducing my On The Bright Side block.

If you'd like to make my On The Bright Side block click through to the Benartex blog Sew in Love {with Fabric} - my free tute is available there.

Click To Get The On The Bright Side Block Tute

For ideas of how the block can look in multiples as a quilt and also for a tute on how to turn your single block into a pillow cushion with hidden zipper click the image below:



And now for a giveaway - everyone loves a giveaway right?!

6 Chances To Win 6 Burlap Bright FQs!

(open to US residents only) 

Here're 6 chances to win a Fat Quarter bundle of the 6 Burlap Brights I used in my block - you need to leave a separate comment here on my blog below for each chance:

1:  Leave a comment below telling me your favourite Burlap Bright colour

2: Follow me here @made by ChrissieD via email or blog reader then leave a comment letting me know where you're following via.  Existing followers can join in too :D

3: Follow made by ChrissieD on Facebook and leave a comment back here letting me know.

4: Follow made by ChrissieD on Instagram and leave a comment back here letting me know.

5: Head over to Sew in Love with Fabric, sign up to follow their blog by email or blog reader then leave a comment back here letting me know that you did so.

6:  Follow Benartex on Facebook and leave a comment back here letting me know.

Please be sure I can access your email.  

If you're a WordPress, Google+, no-reply or anonymous commenter, or maybe you're just not sure, please add your email address to each comment.  If I can't find you I'll immediately draw another winner.

This giveaway is open to US residents only and closes on Tuesday, 26 May 2015 at 10.00 am (EST).  A winner will be chosen from the comments using a random number generator, contacted via email and shared at the bottom of this post.

Best of luck!

Here's the Burlap Brights Block Hop schedule:

11 May: Chris, that's me, and you're already here @made by ChrissieD!!!
12 May: Mary @Mary on Lake Pulaski
13 May: Alison @Little Bunny Quilts
14 May: Debby @Debby Kratovil Quilts
15 May: Kristen @KD Quilts
16 May: Benartex Design Team
17 May: Stephanie @Stitched Together Studios
18 May: Julie @The Crafty Quilter
19 May: Cynthia @Quilting is more fun than Housework
20 May: Jessica @Quilty Habit
21 May: Wendy @Ivory Spring

If you want to know how to make my On The Bright Side block and another 10 great blocks too head over to the Benartex's Sew in Love with Fabric blog each day, including weekends, through to Thursday, 21 May 2015 to check out that day's tute and for a fresh chance each day to win these 6 Burlap Bright fat quarters at each blog on the schedule.

Updated on Tuesday, 26 May 2015:

The winner of the 6 fq Burlap Brights bundle is #215 - Kathy Davis.  Congrats Kathy, an email has been sent :D

And just for fun I've put together a Sampler Quilt image using all 11 blocks from the Block Hop - of course, it's one block short of the 12 you'd need so I've added the Block Hop logo in that space but you could repeat your favourite block from the hop here, maybe reversing the positive and negative colours.

That's one Bright Quilt!!!

Thanks for dropping by and taking part in the Burlap Brights Block Hop - Chris :D

Clicking on an image will take you to a new page of crafty goodness :)

Disclaimer: The 6 fat quarters pictured at the beginning of the post were supplied at no charge to mbCD by Benartex to create the tutorial otherwise this post is for informational purposes only, no payment or commission is received on click-throughs to links shared.