Showing posts with label selvage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label selvage. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 November 2020

Messy House: Catch up #2 Nov.

Do you procrastinate? I do - all the time. I procrastinate about what fabrics to use, what sashing to do, what borders to put on, what backing, labels, quilting pattern etc etc. Some quilts are easy, like the last Sugaridoo sewalong. I had no problem with any of it - well except maybe the label, still working on that. When I am 'stuck' on these decisions, I tend to sew scraps!

I have had my Christmas fabric box out to make some more coasters so I have been using the scraps to make 6.5" and 4.5" squares, as leaders and enders. This last week I have been sewing just scraps.

About mid week I decided to sew some of the selvedge strips I have been collecting. I am making a chair cover using the selvedges, and have wanted to make a bookshelf wall hanging. This week was the week.

I love the different 'book' titles revealed in the selvedges.
Now to get ready for Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville Mystery.

Link up Parties:

Whoop whoop Friday

Wednesday-Wait-Loss

Off the Wall Friday

Finished (or Not) Friday

A Pageant of Finishes

Peacock Party


Thursday, 20 December 2012

Easy Street

Part Two

This part involved making 128 flying goose units using the purples and the black on white fabrics.
Bonnie recommends the Easy Angle ruler and the Companion ruler - I don't have either, but I do have the Omnigrid Fons & Porter half and quarter square ruler. I did use Bonnie's pictures to make sure I was cutting the right way.


Both triangles were cut from 2" strips of material. I needed 128 of the purple half square triangles and 256 of the black on white quarter square triangles.

I forgot to take a photo of the finished block :D

PART 3

This week we needed 64 x 2" purple corner squares, 128 black on white triangles cut from 2" strips, and 64 turquoise/teal triangles cut from 3.5" strips.
Sew the white wings onto the squares to make a larger triangle unit.
Add the new unit to the teal triangles to make 64 x 3.5" squares.











PART 4

This was was more flying geese, but only 64 this time. Instead of  black on white wings we made turquoise/teal wings.

Next we added the new geese blocks to 64 of part 2 geese blocks with the new geese at the bottom.
Easy.

As a final part this week Bonnie has us cut out 145 3.5" pink squares - yay pink at last!!
Remember I agonised about using the lime green, and went back to 'my' pinks :) 


Now to post on the 'link-up' and then - sadly - do some house work!

Before I go - did some more selvage sewing - can't wait to have enough to show you what I'm making.

Sew long - until next time
Allison