I'm down at Shonny's, waiting for our baby to arrive, but he's in no hurry. It's so hard to be patient, especially when Hayden has a limited amount of time home. But I'm making the most of just having Isla, it will all be different once the new baby arrives.
I did get some more sewing done, and put all the blue-green blocks together. I'm really pleased with how it turned out, and pleased that I didn't go and buy more of that colour to have more variety. It worked out just fine with what I had. I will have to get a metre of darker print for the borders, but that's OK. I won't have to add that to the stash.
The picture above is very washed out, the colour in this photo is more true to life.
The pattern was
Checkered Lattice, from Missouri Quilt Company. However, that method created bias edges on the outside of the blocks, and I can't be doing with that. I cut 7" squares, cut them on both diagonals, and used those triangles to build the blocks. All the finished blocks were trimmed to 7.5" and because the edges were on the straight grain it went together really easily. I could use even small pieces of fabric instead of the 10" squares in the video. It wasn't as quick, but I enjoyed the process of choosing fabrics for each block.
I have several things to work on next, I'll spend today sorting out some blocks to sew. I want to have things ready so that I can quickly sew a few things together in any spare moment.
2 comments:
Best of luck! And, I love this quilt!
I'm not a follower of Missouri star because so many of her blocks leave the bias on the outside edge and that's a disaster in the making. That's my humble opinion. Good luck with the new baby, busy times. I like the quilt.
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