Despite careful sewing, measuring, cutting & pinning things just weren't working out when i tried adding the 2 round of squares so before the quilt ended up in the naughty corner i decided to just make it a lap quilt.
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My day for FNSI hosted by Wendy started with a ufo from a few years back.
I thought i'd be chain piecing 2-1/2 squares for it but when i opened the tin I was using for storage i found it was quite full of squares already pieced together. :) The original pattern i'm following is a square quilt but i wanted it rectangle. I had to unpick what i'd sewed of the quilt to get a rectangle shape. I manged to add 3 rows each side, 4 top & bottom then the grey borders before it was time to stop. As i'm winging it i need to work out how many rows to add to get it to a decent single bed size.
Or maybe i should quit while i'm a head & turn this into a lap quilt & just make the square quilt .lol. Not like i don't have enough scraps to cut out more 2-1/2" squares. I've plenty of the gray fabric to start again.
Night time saw me stitching the 6th of the 10 stitcheries i needed to redo.
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Since the churn dash block is one of my favourites & Chookyblue mention making another & a sew along was hatched i decide to join in. The goal 8 blocks a month & complete the quilt in October, Well the top anyway. :)
I've has my fabrics chosen for a little while. All repro's. Background is a Jo Morton. Main fabrics are from a fat 1/4" bundle "collection for a cause" fabrics by Barbara Brackman. The 2 other fabrics for sashings & borders arrived the other day & they are from Jo Morton & Betsy Chutchian.
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My red & white quilt "festive flocks" is officially a flimsy. If there is anymore mistakes they are staying there. I finished it off yesterday & posted a photo on various medias & it was kindly pointed out to me that some of my flock had decided to fly different directions. Shit, seriously how did i not notice that when pressing the blocks & laying them out to see which blocks i'd like where as there are some brighter reds than others & i wanted to try & separate them where possible. So all photo's taken down & back to the machine to rectify my mistake. 3 rows in 3 blocks upside down. :(. Silly thing is whilst putting the top together i though several times "i hope all the birds are round the right way" but instead of stopping & checking i just kept merrily sewing.
Anyway about the top. I changed how the sashings were added. The patterns said to cut 18- 1/2" & 20-1/2" sashings which i did. They were added to sides & bottoms only. I then read about how the border was done after looking at the picture & wondering why there was a little square in on corner. Hmm i didn't like that so refigured how the sashings would be added so that i could add borders in one piece. Then another light bulb moment. Why not one long sashing across the quilt between each row. So that is what i did & now i have a pile of left over strips i needn't have cut in the first place if whoever had designed the quilt did the same as me. :)
Top measures 62" square. I had considered adding another 3 blocks to make it rectangle. If i had cut them when i did the other blocks i may have done but by the time i did the last blocks i was ready to move on to my next quilt.
happy Stitching,
Hst's trimmed i could get stuck into making blocks. i only managed 2 before i needed to do more yard work.
Block 2
and the 3 together
I had left my blocks on the ironing board & Lil P thought i hadn't pressed them enough. Luckily she isn't the very furry cat.
Now that i knew how to cut the red fabrics so i didn't have any waste i prepared what was needed. Then matching the squares up of red & white i drew lines for the magic 8 blocks & set them aside until all were done but my helper must have thought they needed pressing.
To early silly kitty i'm just drawing lines. That done over to the sewing machine where more help was given.
After that she left because my son had scared her when he opened the gate beside my sewing room.
After cutting 24 blocks into the half square triangles it was onto pressing them. Oh so many to press. Then comes the trimming. I only have a couple of piles done as i need to get out into the yard & get it tidied up from all the rain making weed, grass & the plants(they badly need pruning again) grow.
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For FNwF hosted by Cheryll i started early. I've managed to get 2 blocks re-stitched from my cutting stuff up last week so they were double checked for the correct size before trimming. :)
I've wanted to make a red &white quilt for a while & when in a birthday fat 1/4 swap many years back hosted by Cheryll i asked for the colour red. All i needed then was a pattern. Last year Family Circle i found a quilt pattern that i liked & it was done in red & white.
I'd already worked out that using fat 1/4's would work with this pattern but because of the cutting instructions i was going to be careful so i didn't waste fabric. I decided to make just one block. The white fabric was easy to cut out being just the one fabric. :)
complete with a "fancy" labelling system. lol
After some fun & games making up the block it was finally done
It took a wee bit longer than i thought due to some reverse sewing, losing a half square triangle, making up another then after the block was sewn i found the missing one. Though i tried to match up seams as blocks were sewn together there was some fixing there to do as well. Block measures 18-1/2" So now i'm off to make the other 8.
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Yesterday Chooky hosted a Chookshed Bithday Zoom to celebrate having her shed for 10 years Ladies from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Norway, USA & England all popped in.
The other day i had one of my ufo's out to stitch together. I already knew there was a slight problem with the sizes. Stuff up number one - i didn't cut the blocks larger than what the size said. I should've remembered that this designer doesn't give larger cutting size to cut back. The blocks weren't to badly out or so i thought. Well they didn't play nice when sewn together. I tried cutting back a little to see if that would help. A big fat NO. So i pondered a while & decided to cut them an 1" shorter all round. The finished hanging would be smaller but all the blocks would still fit the layout.
Thursday saw me trimming back. All was going fine or so i thought when i had about 3 or 4 blocks left of 23. Stuff up number 2- there are 2 blocks each in rows 2 & 4 are cut on a 3/4" line & i merrily cut them all that way when i suddenly realised the rest blocks should measure 7" by 9" not 7" x 8-3/4". Damn
Friday saw me tracing out the 10 incorrect cut blocks & start to restitch them.
Saturday on Zoom i finished the first one
& the next started
as each one is done i'm going to make sure i cut them to the right size.
Happy Stitching,
Spring & summer stitcheries were finished off yesterday ready to hang when those seasons roll around.
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I'd stitched these earlier in the month though the one on the bag front could've been stitched back in April. :)
First finish yesterday was the little hanging by Petal & Patches
2nd finish was supposed to be a pouch with a zipper in the top. First attempt i put it in the wrong way & despite careful unpicking the fabrics frayed a little. Tried again but the fabric just kept slipping. The choice throw it in the naughty corner or turn it into something else because the fraying was getting bad. Hmm bag it is.
Since it came as a kit to make a pouch there wasn't enough for bag handles. I hunted through my blues until i found some fabric that i hoped went with the Liberty print.
Last was to make up the Marg Low Designs pattern which i stitched last Zoom session.
Open
& closed
My FNSI was quiet, just a wee bit of embroidery on my latest stitching project.
Thankyou Wendy for running FNSI again. Pop over here to see who joined in
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The day of sewing started fairly early making blocks. 1st up was block 24 for Sewcialites It took a little longer than i hoped. Next weeks ...
