WIP Wednesday: Low Volume Baby Quilt Progress

Last week I shared my low volume baby quilt that I am in the process of making.

I wanted to get the quilt top finished over the weekend, but between a last minute invitation to have dinner with friends on Saturday night and the kids soccer games on Sunday by sewing time was cut down to practically nothing.

But never fear, yesterday I got stuck in and finished chain piecing all the squares into 4s and pressing them so they are all ready to be sewn into blocks of 16.

I have done some blocks of 16 already, but I was being lazy and only finger pressing them so that aren't perfect.

But hopefully these next set of blocks I put together will make up for that.

What are you creating at the moment?

Cheats Half Square Triangles Using Charm Squares

I love half square triangles, but sometimes they can take a while to make.

But here is a quick way to make them using charm squares.

What I used:
8 Charm Squares

Yield:
16 half square triangles

Place two charm squares right side together and stitch around ALL of the edges with a 1/4 inch seam allowance.

Cut in half on the diagonal.

Cut in half again.

Ta da! You now have half square triangles!

All you need to do now is press and trim them.

Then arrange how ever you like.

I love this method as you can make HEAPS of HST's in a fraction of the time.

Colour, So Much Colour!

I love having a lot of colour in my home. And truthfully I am still trying to add a lot of colour to this house. We have been in here 7 months now and it still feels dark. The floor tiles and blinds are dark, plus we have a load of dark furniture all thanks to B's dislike of colour.

I've thrown as many colourful soft furnishings about the place

and have recently started working on wall art.

But I would really really really like to make some patchwork curtains, and well B has said NO! He just will not have a bar of them.

But they are just oh so pretty and colourful!

Do you like having colour in your home?

basted.

I normally spray baste my quilts, but I am all out of basting spray since we couldn't pack aerosol cans in our shipping containers when we moved, so I had to go down the traditional route of using basting pins.

I also discovered that Ethan understands not to walk on my laid out layers of quilt, but the cats... not a chance.

I left the room and came back to a crumpled mess on the floor because two of the cats were wrestling on it...

Never mind, next time I will just have to bast in a room where I can keep them out of the whole time.

It didn't take long to baste with the pins, but man my back was sore after I finished.

Now I just have to figure out how I want to quilt it... Any suggestions?

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Sweet Pouch Swap

Last month I signed up for a swap over at Sew Delicious. It was a sweet pouch swap, I was excited and a little dubious on my zipper sewing abilities. I used to sew zipper pouches a lot and zipper were never my strong suit. I could do them, but no matter how many times I have sewn with them I have to concentrate, A LOT. And well, I haven't sewn with a zipper for well over a year. So I was back to being scared of them.

Silly I know, but hey, I am a big old scaredy pants at heart!

I knew what fabric I wanted to use for the pouch and I knew I wanted it to have a scrappy pieced look.

So I sat down with my scraps and set about sewing them together any which way.

I had a bit of trouble with the zipper, so I hope my recipient is forgiving on that fact.

But I am happy with the overall result. And I hope my partner likes it too.

Thanks so much to Ros for running this swap. It was fun!


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