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In the sewing room, no 5.

February 6, 2013 jennifer Quilting and Sewing

This was definitely a “slow craft” week in the sewing room. Lots going on at our busy house!

My most exciting progress was this little mini heart quilt that went from sketch to completed in a couple of days. Every once in a while I need a quick finish to keep me motivated on my slower projects, and this was it.

After wishing I had more yellow fabric last week, I went through my stash and found a few yellows that hadn’t been sorted by color last year. I’m excited to add them to my Scrappy Trip along quilt, which I didn’t even touch this week!

I spent a lot of time with my seam ripper this week, ripping out some quilting I wasn’t happy with. I’m ready to get back to work on this now.

I’m making slow progress on the half square triangles for my sawtooth quilt, and each time I’m working on them I ask myself how I managed to jump into three projects at the beginning of the year that all have tons of half square triangles in them! Not good planning. I do love my choreography quilt top and backing (which awaits quilting right now) and I’m sure I’ll love this when it’s finished also. At least I’m using a different HST construction method with each quilt. It’s kind of fun to try new ways of making the same square.

My Scrappy Swoon quilt is taking shape. Next week we’ll do the last sections of this, then put it all together. I’m having a lot of fun with this project!

In the coming week I hope to make bindings for two quilts ( and maybe even get them on the quilts?), cut more white fabric to use with a bunch of Field Study squares I cut in January, and spend a bit of time embroidering. I’d like to baste a quilt or two as well, if time allows. Although I have several new projects I’m excited to start I’m going to focus on finishing these first. Patience.

Happy Sewing, Jennifer Linking to Freshly Pieced

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Heart Mini Quilt

February 5, 2013 jennifer Quilting and Sewing, Valentines Day

What a fun project this little quilt was! When I realized I’d gone a little crazy cutting pink squares for my Scrappy Swoon Quilt, I decided to use them right away instead of tossing them in the scrap bin. With Valentine’s Day approaching, a heart came to mind and I had just enough squares to put it together. I decided to use grays for the background squares.

Once it was pieced and basted, I quilted it in straight lines on both diagonals. Simple and cheery, it’s adding a bit of festivity to our wall.

I backed the quilt in an old Anna Griffin ticking stripe print I had on hand, and the binding is a Flower Sugar print from Lecien.

A few quick stats on making one if you’re interested:

fabric needed: 48 – 3.5 inch squares various pink or red fabrics for the heart, 9 – 3 7/8 inch squares of both pink AND gray fabrics, and 34 – 3.5 inch squares of various gray prints for the background.

Pair each 3 7/8 inch pink square with a 3 7/8 inch gray square and make 18 half square triangles using a scant 1/4 inch seam allowance.

Lay your squares out as follows, from left to right :

Top row: 10 gray squares 2nd row: 1 gray, 1 half square triangle block, 1 pink, 1 HST block, 2 gray squares, 1 HST square, 1 pink, 1 HST, 1 gray 3rd row: 1 HST, 3 pink, 2 HST sqaures, 3 pink, 1 HST 4th row: 10 pink squares 5th row: 10 pink squares 6th row: 1 HST, 8 pink squares, 1 HST 7th row: 1 gray, 1 HST, 6 pink, 1 HST, 1 gray 8th row: 2 gray, 1 HST, 4 pink, 1 HST, 2 gray 9th row: 3 gray, 1 HST, 2 pink, 1 HST, 3 gray 10th row: 4 gray, 2 HST, 4 gray Sew each row together (1/4 inch seam allowance, of course).

Sew strips together to complete quilt top:

The quilt top should measure 30 inches square. Choose a backing, then quilt and bind according to your taste. Done!

With all the projects I’m in the middle of right now, it was a pleasure to put together a quick little project just for fun. It’s also my first finished quilt of 2013. It will keep a smile on my face this month when I walk past it, and that’s no small thing on gloomy February days!

Thanks for visiting, Jennifer

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Scrappy Swoon-Along: Sections 7 & 8

February 4, 2013 jennifer Quilt Alongs

Welcome back to the Scrappy Swoon Quilt Along! Today’s post will knock out sections 7 and 8. I can hardly believe how close we’re getting to a finished quilt top! Let’s get started!

Section 7 Section 7 is another simple patchwork block. You will need 36 – 3.5 inch squares in your secondary color. These are the last of your secondary color squares!

Each block requires 9 – 3.5 inch squares. Lay them out in a 3 x 3 nine patch pattern as below:

Sew them into three strips:

And once again, the strips into a 9.5 inch square block.

Make 4 of this block.

These blocks will fill in the corners of the secondary color sections, completing the points on the corners.

Now we’re done with your secondary color! Next up is section 8 and the last of our primary color squares as well.

Section 8 Section 8 comprises the last of your half square triangles and the last of your primary color squares. For this section you’ll need 12 – 3 7/8 inch squares of both your primary color AND your background color. You’ll also need 24 – 3.5 inch squares of both primary and background prints.

Pair up your 3 7/8 inch squares and make 24 half square triangles.

Each block will require 3 half square triangles, 3 – 3.5 inch sqaures of background fabrics and 3 – 3.5 inch sqaures of primary color squares. Line them out in three rows of three with the half square triangles making a diagonal line throught the square.

Sew the squares into three strips.

Sew the strips together to make a 9.5 inch square.

Make 8 of these blocks.

(Remember the stacked paper method from section 4!)

These blocks will be placed along each side of the section 6 blocks.

OK. There we go! Finished with all the half square triangles (and we’ve made a lot of those!) and finished with your primary and secondary colors. Next Monday we’ll wrap up the background fabric with blocks 9 & 10. I’ve had so much fun watching all the color combinations and fabric choices popping up in the flikr group . Keep them coming! Can you believe you’re almost done? Have a great week!

Jennifer

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