It is time to share your finished quilts, tops, or progress so far.
Mine is being quilted, but isn’t there yet. Maybe next week. Sometimes life gets in the way.
In the meantime, visit Katy and put your progress in her link-up (if you have a blog), or send her (or me) a picture and we’ll have them to share.
Thanks for joining us, however far you are. This has been fun and we hope to do another one (together or separately) sometime soon.
THIS TUTORIAL provided a great starting point for our new couch quilt.
I just love it when a pile of fabric, a need and an idea all come together.
And then I found the perfect back!
And I had pre-made binding all ready to go!
Sometimes it is just meant to be. And I look forward to wrapping up in this cozy quilt.
Time to stitch all those strips into a top. So exciting!
I like to lay things out and consider my options.
This quilt has many prints and colors and it is probable that it will never be perfect, but I try to avoid color blobs.
When stitching long, pieced strips I don’t find it necessary to pin. Just stitch seam to seam, taking a moment to match them up.
The results will be beautiful in the end.
I love it when it all comes together.
Make sure to visit Katy and see how her version using larger pieces turned out.
And come back on October 12 to share and see finished tops from everyone.
There are many different ways you could assemble your piles of blocks into a quilt, but for this quilt we’re going to assemble all those blocks into strips.
First, sort them out. Make 7 piles of 20 blocks each of the 4-patch blocks. Make 8 piles of 20 blocks each of the fence rail blocks.
And sew them together.
NOTE: FOUR of your strips of four-squares should have light squares in the upper left; THREE should have dark squares in the upper left. And, don’t worry too much if you make a mistake. It will be easy to find and fix with just a little picking out.
Nope, it isn’t complicated. You already did the hard part with the cutting and block creation.
Just don’t give up.
When you are done you should have 8 fence rail strips and 7 four-patch strips for a total of 15.
Assembly next week. Be sure to visit Katy and see how hers is coming along.
And, in case you are just joining us or missed a section, all previous steps can be found HERE.
My Friday Night Sew In (FNSI),(Wendy of Sugarlane Designs) began with an hour of sewing Friday morning, and continued with more time Friday night. And, continued into Saturday. Between other necessary things, I was determined to get the last 13 setting blocks for the North Star State quilt finished.
YAY! All that are left are the friendship star cornerstone blocks. It is so good to see it finally coming together. It seemed like such a good idea to do the quilt in miniature…or at least much smaller scale. I am glad to have found a use for my smallest 1930s (and a few others) scraps, but it has been harder than I thought it would be. Ah, well, the end is in sight. Probably fairly soon. I am shooting to have a finished top by the end of the month. Maybe sooner.
Also stitched are the strips of rectangles for the Two and Four Quiltalong. You can check back here on Tuesday for the details.
Is it too early to be looking forward to next month? I enjoy the FNSI so much!
Tonight (or tomorrow) is the Friday Night Sew In (FNSI), organized and hosted by Wendy of Sugarlane Designs.
Get your projects together, put on the comfy clothes, and get sewing.
I plan for a big push on my North Star State Quilt
And more progress on the Two and Four Quiltalong.
See you soon with an update.
A section of my shelving is devoted to Potential Projects. Most often these come as groups of scraps in hand-me-down bags, or even partially finished projects.
And I have a lot of them.
So many, in fact, that I am going to take one bag or pile each month and decide to either make it into a project, or put the fabric back into regular circulation, or even just get rid of it.
This is the first pile.
And this is the first idea of what to do with it. Hmm…should be interesting.
This frame has been setting around for a while, wanting to become something.
So, I took all this.
And created this.
It can be used vertically, or…
horizontally, if you take the stand part off the back.
It isn’t difficult. Search “pincushion from a picture frame” and you will find all sorts of tutorials. This one will be a gift for a quilting friend.
While it takes a long time to build the blocks for a quilt made out of 1-1/2″ squares, it also takes a long time to assemble those blocks.
There are 360 blocks. The final layout will finish at 80″ x 72″ and contain 5760 pieces. One. Block. At. A. Time.
With school starting and all the craziness that means this year in particular, my sewing time is…much less. But, I have made a little progress on the blue quilt.
And this is how I keep my blocks, especially large ones, flat while I keep piecing. I guess it is a good thing my sewing space is in the laundry room.
