Thursday, August 23, 2012

Block Design

Which one do you like best?


Sunday, August 12, 2012

Pile of Pinwheels

I earned a little more sewing time and pieced the pinwheels together this evening...


The squares for the diamond blocks are waiting to be trimmed to 2 1/4"... which takes forever ...


Sunday, August 5, 2012

Diamonds and Pinwheels

I spent the last few weekends making notecards for my final work exam and decided I have earned a little sewing time. I have slowly been working on piecing together scrap half squares from Brody and Krista's quilt. I learned how to chain piece, which I should have learned long ago, but it is a fast way to piece and it doesn't waste so much thread. Here I laid out all the pieces and pushed them through the machine...


My vision for the quilt...


Here are all the pieced triangles with an example of what they will become...