Catching up with Hello Sun

After a relaxing holiday and back to work, which was hectic, I was able to catch up on April's Hello Sun Block. I'm making three blocks - one for each Grand daughter and a spare.

 First I cut our the pieces I need - 3 suns, 3 clouds and nine raindrops. I used some batik for the raindrops.

 Ironing the pieces in place. I bought this little iron from mail order on the internet - it gets hot enough to fuse the webbing and to set blocks, but not hot enough to iron most clothes. Great to take in the van and to have at my sewing table.

 Then all that was left to do was appliqué. 

 Now to the next project and Amy Gibson's Craftsy BOM.

 After reading some Q&A from Craftsy this site was suggested for hexagon shapes.

http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/hexagonal/

It worked really well, so now I'm hand sewing.

Sew long - until next time.

Catching up Monday LOL

Had a busy weekend with school work and visitors, so no sewing :-(
I was able to cut and sew some yellow strings for the Hello Sun BOM by April Mae Designs during the week, so that was a bonus.

Heatbond fabric ironed onto strips and cut according to directions

The suns ironed into place. 

I'm making two quilts, one for each of my granddaughters. 

January Block

Of course, the January snowman, will become Coopers July block.

Ava's will be January :-)

 

I love the material for the hats. 

Wish I had thought of fussy cutting to get the band the right way on both. 

Learning curve - I don't do a lot of appliqué.

February Block - minus the 'sun rays'

I'm using off cuts so will add them as I go.

 This is my favourite so far.

Here it is not yet ironed, and I've used my 'favourite' colours at the moment

Purple, Pink, and Teal.

  

Ironed and waiting to be sewn.

 The three pairs of blocks waiting to be sewn.

I chose plain blue as the background, and I'm very happy with it. I'm not sure I like the suggested black thread to appliqué, but I've got time to think about it. Thinking about blanket stitching in the colours of the fabric.

That's it for now.
Happy Sewing.