A Messy House is a Sign of a Happy Quilter: This Week in the Sewing Room...

Saturday, 25 July 2026

This Week in the Sewing Room...

I subscribe to The Inquiring Quilter and each month as part of Quilt Block Mania, there is a different theme. I was first introduced to Jennifer and the Inquiring Quilter many years ago as part of Partners in Design, and over the years I have made a number of the designs. July is movie month, and I liked six of the designs, so this past week I made two of them.

Above is movie clapper by Tammy Silvers. This was the easiest to make as I already had black scraps handy and wanted to use an aqua scrap fabric as the RSC colour this month is aqua. It was all paper pieced, and I'm enjoying paper piecing at present.

The block has 4 paper piecing sections and then added borders to make the block. I think each section of the paper piecing would make great borders on other quilts - in different colours.

The next block was Movie Projector by The Inquiring Quilter. I started cutting out the pieces and got confused. It's been a while since I made a block with so many pieces, and I couldn't remember where I put my little tags so made some new ones to label the pieces.

I made the 'base' block ready to applique and discovered that I only had one leg cut out. I didn't realise that the one piece was for two legs. I traced the applique pieces and ironed them onto the fabric.

I then realised that the applique legs would overlap and I thought they would look better if sewn into the top part of the block - so I unpicked the bottom section from the top

and ironed the applique on.

I then stitched the bottom piece back on.

All that is left to do is to finish the stitching around the applique, iron and trim to size. I'm thinking these blocks will be wall hangings or pennant type hangings used for theme parties, or movie buffs.

In years gone by I would save all the off cuts from applique and iron them onto calico, but I'm over that now 😀. Below is one I made that still sits pegged to my curtain.