Purchasing Fabric for the Temperature Quilt! Quilt Along 2024

[@elizabethlampi7667]

This was wonderful, beautiful color choices. Good tips. My plan is to make several temperature quilts in 2025. My three children live in three different states in the USA with various weather. I need to come up with an idea to bring out birthday blocks and have yet to determine size of blocks etc. this was a great tutorial giving my ideas as I’m planning colors right now. Your shopping template is perfect 🫶🏼 I look forward to watching the rest of your videos in this series.

[@deetorres424]

Love the colors 💜

[@duckrivermama66]

👁👁 I've never done a temperature quilt. Just recently even heard about them. Went to the fabric store to pick out cloth. I found things I really liked. For instance, i picked out hot pepper cloth and flame cloth for really hot days. A plain white for freezing, and greys, darks and black for below freezing. The lady suggested that I wait for their sale since I was buying so much. We took pictures of the cloth and the ends of the bolts so it would be easy to find them again. I'm in USA so temps are in Fahrenheit.

[@stitchwithrachel]

Sounds like some awesome selection of fabrics!

[@SewWhittle]

I love your idea of fabrics other than the ROYGBIV chart. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[@delwyngraham4033]

Beautiful fabrics always wanted to do one maybe this is the year I’m in Western Australia so reverse seasons to you

[@juliejeavons6949]

I’m glad I found you. I’m getting a little bit obsessed with temperature projects. I’m almost finished on a quilt and blanket for this year and just started on a very bold and clashing quilt, started in September to finish on my 60th birthday. From your accent you sound like you’re not far from me in the Midlands. I’ll join the Facebook page, so hope to see your pattern and how you progress there.

[@stitchwithrachel]

I've always wanted to make a temperature quilt and im so excited that so many people want to join in. Yeah I live in the Midlands! xx

[@mrslincoln5118]

🎈🎈🎈 Happy Birthday Rachel 🎈🎈🎈 heading over to FB to join your temperature quilt community page! This sounds like it’s going to be sooooo much fun! My biggest problem is I live on the Canadian border in New York State and or year round temperatures can vary from minus 20 degrees in the winter months and to 98 degrees summer!!! That’s a huge variable and purchase of fabric…not to mention organization! However…I’m up for the challenge! I think my color changes are going to to be an even 10 degrees which is twelve fabrics and two extras if it goes below -20 or above 100 degrees. I am planning on using triangle log cabins…paper pieced…with two rounds to represent the high and low for the day…and a dark blue for the background…those upside down triangles separating my colored triangles. So for the center of my colored triangles I will also use the dark blue so it will look they’re floating. It may not make sense in writing…but it makes sense in my head…😂 Anyway…wish me luck!

[@stitchwithrachel]

Thank you for your birthday wishes! Your quilt sounds amazing, you'll have to share your progress in the Facebook group. That I'd a big range, you could always convert it to Celsius and that will reduce the big range... I think 🤣 x

[@LesliesLakeLife]

Rachel, I look forward to watching you progress through the year. I think this is a super fun idea. Unfortunately, I am unable to participate. Happy belated Birthday!

[@stitchwithrachel]

Thank you for the birthday wishes . That is absolutely fine, I understand that not everyone wants/can take part but I'm still glad to be sharing it with you x

[@jacquelineknox1977]

Happy 33rd birthday Rachel 🎂I love all your fabrics and it is so exciting planning for this quilt for next year. xx

[@janetknight8530]

Bramble Patch my favourite quilt shop - well done choosing so many fabrics 😊

[@stitchwithrachel]

It's amazing isn't it!

[@KelleysQuiltsandCruises]

Good plan for your temperature quilt. I have just subscribed. I live near Vancouver BC 🇨🇦 and we get pretty hot in the summer, mid to high 30s. Winter temperatures are most often similar to yours unless we get a jet stream change and colder air comes in from Alberta. If I decide to do a temperature quilt sometime I’d go from -10 to 38, or something like that.

[@maryt2887]

Happy belated birthday, Rachel! 🎉🎉🎉 You know, I have the same problem as you-fabric and notions just sneak into my bag! Love the fabrics you chose.

[@stitchwithrachel]

Thank you for the birthday wishes! There must be some fabric fairies hard to work sneaking stuff into our bags! If only they paid too 😂

[@melaniehopkins7541]

Happy belated birthday, Rachel🎉🎂. You are so fortunate to have your sister close and to be able to do things with her. Have fun! Smiles from Washington State 😊

[@stitchwithrachel]

Thank you for your birthday wishes! Absolutely, I have been so happy since she has taken up sewing. It's lovely to have someone to share it all with in person

[@PeaChips]

Happy birthday for last week, Rachel. Those birthday flowers are beautiful. I was thinking you could file a photo away of the flowers and sew something up using the colours of the flowers as a colour theme 😀 Love the fabrics you chose for your temperature quilt. 😁

[@stitchwithrachel]

Now that's a good idea for the flowers!

[@bridgettebaylis1819]

great colours. I have a great big stash. This is fun.

[@suzisaintjames]

2:50 now that you have purchased your fabrics. Enlarge this chart so that instead of a swipe of a marker, make that second column big enough to place a small scrap of fabric. (At the end you could use this scrap for your quilt label for the back of the quilt). 💖🌞🌵😷

[@stitchwithrachel]

Very good idea!

[@sabineviehweger3340]

Happy Birthday Rachel, your fabrics are beautiful. I think they will match very well in each temperature combination, as the most pick up colors from the others.

[@stitchwithrachel]

Thank you! I hope they look good layered together but only time and temperatures will tell! Xx

[@vanniceabigelow6074]

Happy Birthday 🎉!! Thank you for doing this with us.

[@stitchwithrachel]

Thank you 🩷 and you are very welcome

[@bbymks5]

Your fabric choices are beautiful!! Happy Birthday 🎂

[@janewardle5558]

Gorgeous fabric, I had a few ideas for my fabric choices, I buy online and considered your advice on using something I would easily get more of if needed, I settled on John Louden Cloud , it is sold at a couple of places I buy from and it is nice to work with, and relatively inexpensive. I ordered 14 half metres I think maybe it was 15, really looking forward to this, thank you for organising it.

[@roseanndeighan5872]

Happy Birthday!! Hope your day was amazing!! Sister time is fun!!

[@stitchwithrachel]

Thank you!

[@Auntie7024]

It looks like you had great fun shopping at the Bramble Patch. ❤😊

[@stitchwithrachel]

I sure did!

[@penelopeschinwag]

Lovely helpful video Rachel. I'm hoping to use stash and will be sorting out my fabrics this weekend. Good idea to label them in ziplock bags, ready for January. xx

[@SewWhittle]

Just found your channel. Although I am late to this (being the end of February already), it is a great idea. Maybe next year. On another topic, how are fabric prices where you’re at? I can’t believe how expensive they’ve become. Looking forward to following along anyhow.

[@stitchwithrachel]

Next year is a great idea, I'll be keeping rhe Facebook group open so you'll still be able to join next year and view photos and chat etc. Oh gosh fabric prices are crazy! I rarely buy yardage, usually just fat quarter or scraps so this quilt was a shock for sure

[@marionmathews9852]

It was wonderful to see your collection of fabrics for your temperature quilt. I did go to the Harrogate show, but my mind was confused about where to start with choosing mine. I think that the show wasn’t the best place, because there were too many distractions. Far better to go to an actual shop and take my time choosing.

[@stitchwithrachel]

Yeah the shows can be overwhelming if you are looking for something in particular, but I hope you had a great time and made plenty of other purchases

[@marionmathews9852]

I did indeed! All sorts of things that I didn’t realise I needed in my life lol

[@beverlyperry5343]

Getting excited! Joined the fb group but havent purchased my fabrics yet.

[@stitchwithrachel]

Excellent 😄 there's no rush x

[@sonyaraisey]

Hi Rachel, I know a year later and I have just watched the video of your temperature quilt, I’m thinking of maybe doing one this year thank you 🙏 have a coffee on me (someone) 😊

[@stitchwithrachel]

Thank you so much! I just uploaded a shorts video of my finished quilt top.. finished today 😀

[@gloriamaciel2289]

Parabéns 🎈🎈🎈 que Deus te abençoe sempre muitos beijos do Brasil

[@diannemcdonald6593]

How do you place the colour of each low med high and what they are please

[@stitchwithrachel]

You can choose what fabric is against each temperature xx

[@donnawilson7091]

What block are you going to be using for your temp quilt?

[@stitchwithrachel]

I am going for a square with a heart hand appliquéd onto each block. The square for low, the heart for daily high temp x

[@AussieCrimeCases]

I know you might not have much of a different temperature throughout the day but my days can be three season in one day...what would you do? do you just go by the highest temperature of the day or the middle temperature of the day? I dont have facebook..

[@stitchwithrachel]

I'm doing a block that has two elements, one for the lowest temp and one for a the highest temp of the day x

[@mandymullett1615]

Happy birthday. What is the name of your Facebook page please ? Xx❤

[@stitchwithrachel]

It's linked in the video description but it's temperature quilt along 2024 x