Quilt Along Progress
I finished the strip sets for Rachel’s Postage Stamp Quilt Along over the weekend. Just in time for the next set of instructions! Strip Set A Strip Set B Save
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Quilt Along Update
Ok. Now I know. When doing a project with pre-cut fabrics, make sure all the pieces are from the same manufacturer. In my quilt along fabrics, the purple strips from Island Batik are about an eighth of an inch wider than the cream strips from Timeless Treasures. Since this would throw off the corner alignments when it comes time to do the piecing, I’m trimming them down as I go. Hopefully this works. And in the future, I’ll stick to one manufacturer at a time since this fiddly stuff is the sort of thing buying pre-cut fabric is supposed to …
Quilt Along!
My fabric for the Postage Stamp Quilt Along arrived yesterday! I’m going with Meringue from Timeless Treasures and Sweet Pea from Island Batik. Love batiks. Love them, love them, love them. Despite all advise to the contrary, I spent my “creative time” this afternoon prewashing these strips. I prewash just about all fabric that comes into the house, but it gets iffy when the fabric is pre-cut. But since I’m using fabrics from two different manufacturers, I was concerned that the shrink rates would be different (in the past, when using pre-cut strips, I’d piece the strips and then wash …
New Project (’cause I needed one!)
About a year or so ago, I discovered PS I Quilt, just about the time that Rachel started a Pinwheel Sampler Quilt Along. It didn’t take long before I was wishing I had found the site just a week or two earlier, or that I had jumped into the quilt along before I really knew what it was about. And I promised myself that the next time Rachel announced a quilt along, I was getting involved. Guess what? Rachel’s announced a postage stamp quilt along and I’m gonna play! I ordered the quilt top fabrics yesterday, and they’ll be here …
I finished this over the summer, much to the consternation of the other parents observing at circus class – how could I stand to be working on a quilt in the summer, when it was hot?!? Of course, then I forgot to photograph it and then I wasn’t blogging much… Anyway, here’s how my second quilt repair project turned out: Now that it’s raining and chilly, it’s now totally acceptable for me to be working on a quilt while Caitlyn’s circus-ing. I finished the other one that’s been in progress forever yesterday – photos to come next time the sun …