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| The box of Blocks. |
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| A ziplock bag containing one block ready to sew. |
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| The block when it is done – minus the mistake! |
At the weekend I managed to get Eldest’s quilt cut out. Now if you read lots of books about quilting and blogs there are two schools of thought about this. One – cut the blocks one at a time and sew as you go. Two – cut all the material for all the blocks out and then sew them.
I decided that I would get all the cutting out of the way to start with and put all the material for one block in ziplock bags. So I know that one bag equals one block and I will sew them like that. I also thought it would make it easier.
Attached is a picture of all the bags ready and waiting and one of just one bag. Also there is a picture of the block. Spot the deliberate mistake! On the lower half I have managed to sew the pale blue stripe the wrong way round! Sew I will have to redo those, but I just wanted to see if the colours worked together and they do, I think.
This, when done, will make a twin/single bed quilt and hopefully I will get it quilted with a wave like design, to represent swimming, as Eldest is now Captain of our swimming club!
He likes the design and the colours so we are on to a winner hopefully.
Happy Quilting Thursday
Susie x
The block looks really good—I bet it's going to be a beautiful quilt.
I usually cut as I go (and sometimes I run out of fabric!) because I find it more fun. I also usually do scrappy quilts, and love dipping into my stash at all stages of the process to add one more fabric. My quilts tend to look a little crazy sometimes, but it's fun that way.
Hi Ginny, yes I like scrappy quilts, Eldest picked all the fabric for this as it is his quilt. I hope the blocks turn out well, although by the time I had sewn that first block my eyes were glazing over which is why I put the blue stripe on the wrong way round! doh!!! Susie
Nice colors!
Saludos