It has been cold and wintery (as much as it can be) here in Santa Barbara for the past couple of weeks, so I've been hunkered down inside working on this baby hourglass quilt. I had a bunch of scrap fabric from a previous quilt, so I used the scraps to make half square triangles. I was bored with half square triangles, so I turned them into hourglass blocks for something new. It was a little tedious, but simple to do. I made the hourglass blocks over several evenings and then sewed the blocks together yesterday. It is a small quilt so I am going to try and free-motion quilt it. I purchased a book from Amazon (thanks, Grandma Hopp!) on how to free-motion quilt, so once it gets here, I'll be ready to practice! And luckily my friend's wife is not due until May, so I have some time to get the technique down before starting in on the real deal.
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Whoops -- I just noticed I sewed the bottom three rows on the wrong direction. Going to need to do a little seam ripping and re-sewing!
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