I managed to do some sewing yesterday and made up the blocks for Kellie for her month in the Australasian Bee. She asked for a block, or two, of quilt as you go, as shown in the this tutorial.
You can see that I got so carried away with the lovely, gorgeous fabrics that I left very little room for the border - ooops! Kellie had fussy cut the squares for the centre and then it was literally place and quilt.
A little tip for you if you are going to try this technique:
if you are using white as the border colour
make sure you trim the second to last round of fabric very neatly and as small as possible
so that it doesn't show through the white.
Something I learnt the hard way!!!!!
I LOVED making these blocks - very satisfying and quite quick (although if you were organising all the materials and batting it would take that much longer). This is what I'm really enjoying about the quilting bees over on flickr - being introduced to new techniques and trying blocks and colour combinations you wouldn't necessarily do yourself. You also get to 'meet' some great people!
5 comments:
wow, these are great! I'm still too daunted by quilting. I made a VERY basic quilted picnic banket and it was so wonky and crazy.
They look so pretty and very complicated too!!I've only done very basic patchwork and quilting, but I'd love to try something like this.
I saw this quilt on the other blog and loved it, you did it as well, it's so nice. You did a perfect job, wow!!!
Gorgeous fabrics!! And you are right - quilting can make you sore. I've just taken a break from machine quilting to ease my shoulders - I can get all tense. Glad you're enjoying your new blade! And thanks for your words about my FIL, and I'm sorry to hear about your Dad, real life is hard sometimes, huh?
These look so great Abi!I can't wait to get started on mine, and yes, I fear it will another project to add to the to do list :)
xxx
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