Wheel Around Quilt

Here I am back to working on this project.  More than half of the blocks were done from my last go round (Sept 2013) with this project and they were all cut and prepared for sewing so it was easy to put these last blocks together.

Then into a finished quilt top.

Now what's on the design Wall...

This was a block I first saw on Lori Holt's Bee in My Bonnet, Barn-along  Her's is more flower-like but I was looking through some old quilting mags and saw it again and again - well I had to try it.  So here it is on the old design wall looking spiffy.

The block is 12 1/2 inches square.  The component small sections are all 4 1/2 inches square so it was pretty straight forward.  The corner square in a square is made with one brown square 3 3/8 inches and the corner triangles are the diagonal cut of a 3 inch square.

Spinning Star Blocks

I'm not quite sure when I started these but I came across them and decided I would just do a few more before I put them away again.  I remember them being a bit tricky but I think I was trying to learn partial seams.

I realize that things like pinning that I avoided at all cost back then, come quite naturally to me now.  Needless to say they are going together great this time around.  But now I am willing to spend the time pinning ( less ripping )

This is how the pile looked when I first dug it out.  Hmmm....

What is this mysterious block??  Let me tell you; that jog stitch in the centre of the block is amazing in that you get four HSTs exactly the same (no mirror images).  So you put the two contrasting colours together right sides facing.  Draw two diagonals on the lighter square.  Start sewing 1/4" to  left of a diagonal line.  When you reach the line crossing the one you are following stop with needle down in that crossline.  Make a ninety degree turn. stitch 6 stitches (at 2.0mm stitch length) Turn 90 degrees again.  Now you are on the right side of the same diagonal line you were following at the beginning.
Do the same for the other diagonal line.  Press.  Rotary cut the square apart on the pencil lines.  Press seams open of course.

Engineered Quilt by request

My sister says that I didn't blog about this engineered quilt.  So here goes.  I started out by making a nine-patch block tutorial for my mom's quilting group.  When my DH saw it the engineer brain kicked in and he suggested I do more blocks with more cuts....so I started with 5 in squares of fabric.

With his suggestions that sixteen square block was recut into a nine patch.  Then I manipulated the squares by just spinning them in their places.  Interesting...

I finished it by machine quilting each 17 1/2" block separately and then joining them with a 1/2" wide sashing hand finished on the back.  This was finished in January of 2011 so sort of old news but apparently I hadn't blogged about it before on this site.

What's on My Design Wall today?

A webby delusion I think.  I'm not liking these blocks.  Too low contrast and boring...

I think they will be moving to the junk pile.

Buggy blocks taking shape

I am very happy with these.  Super cute.  I will power on with the block units.

More Spider web blocks fini

More is always - well more...

Triangles in Red

More pressing, more pressing.  Just thought I would show you what a maverick I am with my seams pressed open.  It makes more sense to me and I feel the finished product is flatter.  Course it does take longer to press.  Those seam allowances don't always want to separate for me but I persevere.

Half Square Triangles a la Jo Morton

I watched  a PVRed episode of Fons & Porter and Jo Morton was the guest.  She demo-ed this clever way to make half-square triangles.  I liked it and tried to do it too.