When I finished writing yesterday's weblog post, I noticed Smitty was taking his morn nap on the slow chair inward my office. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 piece back, I added a binding to a complimentary motility quilting practise piece. It's used to encompass the chair to prevent, um, truthful cat crumbs from roofing the chair. Smitty likes it.
They ever seem to sympathise as well as appreciate that sure enough quilts are meant only for them.
After that, I headed into the sewing room. Recall that I had selected fabrics for a mini quilt, as well as I got straight off to function cutting them. It required thirty dark 1-1/2 inch squares, thirty impress 1-1/2 inch squares, as well as thirty 1-inch squares of each print. That took seemingly forever, but I got 'er done.
My goal was to brand piddling bow necktie blocks that would destination upwards at 2-1/2 inches unfinished. And you lot likely know how this goes. The one-inch prints were chain pieced to the dark 1-1/2 inch pieces. That went pretty quickly.
Then I trimmed off the corners...and at this size, I didn't relieve those bonus triangles. I mightiness hold upwards crazy, but I'm non insane.
Those were pressed back, as well as and then I was laid to larn on amongst things.
The instructions said to sew together a impress slice to the correct of the dark pieces I'd only made. That seemed impossibly simple, but I decided to consummate the commencement i only to hold upwards sure.
And, hey...that worked out great, thence I only continued on. It likely would convey been quicker to chain slice these, but I believed (rightly or wrongly) that doing them i at a fourth dimension would amend my accuracy, thence I soldiered on.
When I visited Temecula Quilt Co. concluding month, I had the rattling goodness fortune to convey a conversation amongst the owner, Sheryl Johnson.
If you click on this weblog post, you lot tin run into the astonishingly beautiful mini quilts she's made as well as has displayed inward her store. Here's an expert, I said to myself. So, I wasn't shy most picking her encephalon for tips on how to amend my ain accuracy. Did she trim her seam allowances? No. Did she press her seams open? No. She only sewed them similar whatever other quilt block, but amongst bang-up attending to accurate cutting as well as piecing. Even Mike looked at her quilts amongst open-mouthed amazement. To quote Sheryl,"When you lot brand a 12-inch block, there's some wiggle room. Not thence amongst these minis." No kidding.
So I was super careful, as well as I trimmed each block equally I went. As I've said many times, I love these Creative Grids rulers. They are the best. This piddling 2-1/2 incher was perfect for trimming these blocks. I could house the middle white circle correct over the intersection of the seam lines, as well as then trouble upwards the white lines on the seams as well as larn a actually accurate trim to size.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 piece back, my honey friend Sharon Vrooman also suggested these Clover Fork Pins as a way to amend accuracy.
I was a piddling fumble fingers amongst them at first, but amongst repeated usage, they began to experience to a greater extent than natural. And they do help, although I can't state why exactly. Here's my guess: the approximate of the pivot is smaller than amongst a regular glass-head pin, as well as thence I worried less most sewing over them. Also, they allowed me to pivot both sides of the seam allowance without distorting the block. With a glass-head pin, I convey to pivot form of diagonally to larn both sides of the seam, as well as that leaves them only slightly distorted as well as unbalanced.
So it took most of the afternoon, but yesteryear day's end, I had all fifteen blocks made.
From there, it was pretty quick to sew together the whole top together.
It measures 10-1/2 inches x 6-1/2 inches unfinished. Then I went scrounging closed to inward my leftover bindings as well as pulled out a dark i of a perfect length. From my multi-colored flake bin, I pulled this slice of cloth to role for the back.
I'll larn that sandwiched as well as quilted today. Probably I'll only quilt some diagonal lines over it as well as telephone yell upwards it good.
Changing the subject, I've been gnashing my teeth most what projection I'd similar to do for this year's Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Mine isn't fifty-fifty started yet, but I've been keeping rails of the colors each month. For my side yesteryear side trick, I'd similar to larn caught upwards on the blocks through April, but my commencement chore was to create upwards one's hear what to make.
I'd considered multiple projects as well as rejected them for diverse reason. I liked some, but couldn't envision them inward rainbow colors. Applique? No. Definitely non paper-piecing. Something that was straight off piecing as well as non also fiddly. Finally, I establish this project...
inward this book.
I don't retrieve when or why I acquired this book, but in that place are some bang-up projects betwixt its covers. The i I've selected has 48 colored blocks (so, iv per month), as well as 96 half-square triangles of dark as well as white strips. It'll hold upwards a goodness i for my colored scraps, but it volition also aid me cut the mass of my dark as well as white scraps. There are enough of those too.
Having chosen a project, I'm committed to doing iv colored blocks each calendar month as well as 8 of the half-square triangles of dark as well as whites. I'm hoping to grab upwards to Apr earlier the destination of the month, as well as that's where I'll start my sewing when I complete upwards the mini.
Oh wait...but commencement I'll sew together the names onto the commencement row of Shop Hop blocks as well as sash those together. The embroidery was finished upwards this morning.
So many projects...so piddling time.
My kitty awaits.
