Monday, February 27, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
More Star Blocks
All 54 blocks are complete. Now time to lay them out and sew the quilt top together. Whew.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Star Blocks
This very lovely star block required approximately 18 steps to get to to its completed 11" x 11" form. I have spent the entire weekend working on these blocks. So far I have 15 completely finished (out of 54). The good news is I have everything done up to sewing the nine squares together. So each block now only requires 8 steps (plus ironing). The next time I think a multi-step block would be "fun" to try, I will reconsider...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
What do you think?
Which do you like better? The same fabric in the middle of the star or a different fabric? I know which way I like, but we'll see what you have to say. Be forewarned, regardless of what you say, I'll still do what I want!!
Monday, February 13, 2012
The Beginning of a New Quilt
I am using this tutorial to make a star block quilt:
Tonight I cut the 486 blocks for the stars. The 54 stacks pictured above each have one 4x4 block and eight 3x3 blocks. Later this week I will cut the 432 denim blocks I need for the outline of each star. I am already excited to get to piecing the blocks so I can get an idea of how it will turn out. Luckily Mike is going to be busy the next two weekends with his histerid conference so I will have plenty of time to sew!
Sunday, February 5, 2012
ABC Book
Olivia loves books...but she's a little book monster who destoys paper books in no time. For Christmas I wanted to make her a fabric book she couldn't tear up, but never found the time :/ I finally got around to it today and made this super cute ABC book. I used some scrap fabrics for the letters and an old pair of jeans for the pages. I cut out rectangles of colored fabric for the letters, ironed on Pellon Fusible Web to the back of the fabric, traced the letter stencils on the back of the pellon, cut the letters out and then ironed them onto the fabric. Once they were ironed on to the denim pages I used my handy-dandy sewing machine to applique the letters. It took me a long time to figure out how to bind the book together, but luckily Mike was around to suggest button holes with a fabric tie (why didn't I think of that?). So that's what I did. I hope this can stand the test of the Book Monster.
Tasha said she already knows ABCD so now she can work on the rest of the alphabet.
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