Thursday, August 27, 2020

Another top completed

This is my quilt top for the Snow Flake SAL by The Fat Quarter Shop.
It was fun and fast. 
I used 14 strips from a old but good fabric jelly roll. I had these fabrics for a very long time. 
I will quilt it using my embroidery machine and a winter pattern.




 

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Completing WIP

My "collection" of work  in progress is diminishing in 2020. Stay at home and sew has been a wonderful past time for me.
The quilt top is a collection of blocks made by friends. It was a "shoe box challenge."
We put our fabrics in a box and each month the box was passed around my Bee . The person with the box made a block using those fabrics. In the end we got our boxes back with our amazingly beautiful blocks. It was a great fun to put the blocks together.
The placemats were made over 10 years ago. All I had left to do was to add the borders and quilt it. 
Life got in the way of finishing it and once packed it was forgotten.🙈
 

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Half Log cabin top

This quilt top was made using 8 inches squares of fabric. 
  • For each block you will need 1- 8"  square of white/black fabric, and 1- 8" square of a color batik fabric. So you will actually make 2 blocks at the same time.
  • Cut a 2 inches strips on one side, rotate the squares 90 degrees and cut another 2 inches strip and continue this way until a 4 inches square is left.  
  • note- I did cut several squares at the same time. I carefully stacked 4 fabrics and cut them all at the same time.
  • Alternate the black and white with the color strips and sew the block on a log cabin fashion way. 
  • Trim to size (my blocks are 6 3/4 inches unfinished), and sew the top together.
I chose to sew my blocks on a diagonal setting and added black  and white triangles to complete the top.
I cut the side triangles using a companion angle ruler from  5" strips of fabric.
The corner triangles were cut using an easy angle ruler from 5 1/4" strip.
This quilt top finishes at 54 1/2" by 68"

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