DESIGN WALL MONDAY -
Check out all of us who link up with Judy L. -
At Patchwork Times on Mondays.
We have some awesome stuff on our walls!
Well, THEY do - ME - not so much sometimes - ;))
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Something ELSE new on my design wall this week -
But let me digress - ;))
After I fixed this one -
There - much better - ;))
I got the rest of them together -
And up on the wall - ;))
I had intended to make one -
NOT like the others -
But THIS is NOT what I had in mind - ;))
I wanted to reverse the background blue -
And the print on the one FLORAL one -
Like THIS -
SO -
While these marinate on the wall for a while -
I picked up my January SUDOKU Quilt -
That has been kitted up for a while -
The card says 12/12/13 -
So, yeah - it's been a while - ;))
I got all of the 3-patch sections done -
And started with the bottom three blocks - ;))
The rest are ready to go -
So that's what I want to play with today - ;))
Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -
So I put some more blocks on the wall - ;))
The next three blocks are pink -
They read as solid -
But are really pretty up close -
The others are just as nice - ;))
So I'm just sewing along -
Having a grand old time -
And then -
OOPS -
This ain't right - ;))
Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -
Once again I have joined a bunch of other stitchers -
In Daffycat’s TUSAL - HERE -
It's a Totally Useless Stitch-A-Long - ;))
To play the game -
I have to fill my glass container -
With saved thread clippings -
Or ORTS - Old Ratty Threads -
Fabric trimmings -
Stitching cast-offs -
And then -
On (or about) the New Moon -
Take a picture of the ORTS in my jar -
Post it to my blog -
With a link back to her TUSAL post - HERE -
Label the Totally Useless posts with “TUSAL” -
And then visit her blog and comment on her ORT report for that month's TUSAL - ;))
It's EASY -
It's TOTALLY USELESS -
And -
It's FUN!! - ;))
This year I decided NOT to empty my jar each time -
Because last year my year-to-date accumulation of ORTs -
Made it look like I actually DID something - ;))
Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -
DESIGN WALL MONDAY -
Check out all of us who link up with Judy L. -
At Patchwork Times on Mondays.
We have some awesome stuff on our walls!
Well, THEY do - ME - not so much sometimes - ;))
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Something NEW on my wall!! -
WOO HOO!! -
I said on Saturday that I wanted to play with these -
Well - those were a couple of packs of 10" squares -
The ones on the left are the prints -
The ones on the right are the solids -
I had made a test block a couple of months ago - HERE -
And used the YouTube video -
Missouri Star Quilt Co.
The Churn Dash Quilt Block - Easy Quilting - HERE -
I didn't want to use white/muslin for the background -
Because it's BORING -
So I dug out some Blue -
And started with the solids -
And made three blocks -
Before I figured out my assembly line routine -
For the next four -
And got these done in an afternoon - ;))
Some of the solids look alike -
But they are different shades of the same colors -
And the prints should liven things up a bit -
So -
After I do my chores -
And work on some business/tax stuff -
I want to play with the prints - ;))
Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -
Yesterday I made the Heart -
From scraps that I had left over from my sampler quilt -
LHQSQ - Left Handed Quilter Sampler quilt -
See the page/tab above -
I found a bag of scraps for that top -
So I decided to sort through them -
And separate the colors from the neutrals -
And then Foundation Paper Piece the Heart - ;))
I have a full-blown tutorial on How I Do It -
Backwards - HERE -
It is also listed on the LHQ - Construction page/tab at the top of my blog -
LHQ - Foundation Paper Piecing
Check it out - ;))
I was asked once why I bother to do it -
The way that I do -
To me - my way is intuitive -
AND I like the WYSIWYG factor -
What You See Is What You Get - ;))
Here’s a quick - and - dirty (kinda) version -
Lay out a bunch of fabric scraps -
For a general idea of what goes where -
The corner (fourth section) will be “fussy cut” later -
And it would help -
If I sewed the “right sides” together -
So redo that -
And stitch together a couple strips -
For the third section -
Stitch together some scraps -
For the second section
Do the same for the first section -
And check for fit -
Lay out section 2 - face up -
With the foundation paper on top -
Fold the foundation back on the line -
Trim it 1/4” past the line -
Lay out section 1 - face up -
Sorry for the blurry picture -
Guess I was in a hurry -
Move section 2 to the top of the foundation -
Put section 1 on top of both of them - right sides together -
Flip it over and stitch on the line -
Flip it over to the right side and press -
Flip it back over to the paper side -
Fold the paper back on line #3 -
Trim it 1/4” past the line -
Flip to the fabric side -
Lay out section 3 - face up -
Put section 3 on top of section 2 - right sides together -
Flip it over and stitch on the line -
Flip it over to the right side and press -
Flip is back over to the paper side -
Trim it 1/4” past the line -
Flip to the fabric side -
Lay out section 4 - face up -
Put section 4 on top of section 3 - right sides together -
Flip it over and stitch on the line -
Then -
Flip it back to the right side and press -
Check to see that the entire Heart is covered -
Center it on a square of muslin - face down -
Stitch completely around it -
Starting on a flat area on the side -
Trim all the way around -
Trim the point -
Clip the “V” -
Remove the paper -
Cut a slit in the muslin -
Being careful not to cut the Heart -
Turn it inside out -
Press it -
And Voila -
What You See Is What You Get - ;))
As a side note -
I sew my labels to a piece of muslin -
The same way -
So there are no edges to “turn under” -
When I get to the “sewing on the label” part - ;))
On the “Organizing” front -
The boxes worked out nicely -
To hold the computer game CDs and DVDs -
That Grandpa wanted the boys to have -
So I got the rest of those together - ;))
And today I want to play with these - ;))
Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -
