Saturday, March 1, 2025

My creative week spent sewing on my round robin quilt


I spent my creative time this week in my wee studio, adding to my Stay at home Round Robin quilt

the prompt was Kite blocks... I started with a search online to see them, and for my whimsical house piece decided to make them look like kites, and used blue sky scraps (Thanks, RSC!) plus scrap triangles from feedsack fabrics

I did them improvisationally. cut a rectangle from a blue scrap, then cut that in half on an angle both directions. Now to add a triangle that meets on the tips after sewing
did that on all four corners, then trimmed the excess kite fabric to match the original blue shapes. 
Sewed them together and this happened
patch more sky scraps (yikes, running out of this one!) to make them into same size, sew blocks to each other. Need another kite to stretch across the top...
they will get tails after the whole top is together

It was fun making these, I love little scraps and admit I keep tiny ones, and love how they turn into shapes or fill in gaps

Soooo...

 I was never satisfied with my quarter log cabins and thought, will they look better if made with all the same size logs? I chose scraps I could cut down to 1.5" and made another set
they didn't look better to me, so I decided they would go along the sides of the quilt top, and sewed those to each other, miraculously they came out the same length! 

Now I wasn't satisfied with the lattice slice blocks idea either, the ME fabric wasn't bold enough...
lattice blocks are on the bottom, too pale

then I thought... I love to insert little strips when making landscapes why not take a 3.5" strip of one of the feedsack repro fabrics, and insert tiny darker green "grass" pieces? 
It's done improvisationally as I love what comes from taking that leap into the unknown! 

you overlap the fabrics both right side up,  
 where you want the insert, cut a curve, 
then sew the curves together gently pulling the edges together as you go. Spritz with water and press


See the wide green insert on the left? it's too big so I just appliqued  the background scrap onto the to the middle of it and voila your eye tells you it's two grass sprigs! See below

remember I found six tiny yo-yo's in my feedsack fabrics scrap bag? Perfect for wee flowers in the grass! 
I actually clapped my hands when I stuck them in the new strip of grass!!!
Whee! it's coming together and making sense. 

I love the whole process of being given prompts for rows and the leeway to tweak them to suit me!


I think it's going to work in this orientation. 
We've reached the end of the prompt for rows, now I just need to fit the bits and pieces together, 
(sorry lattice strip, I think you'll go in the scrap bin for now)

into a unified whole top, and quilt it. 
another Whee! 
then add in some hand stitches, some geegaws to embellish, and it'll be done. 
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