I enjoyed reading your preferences for either digital or printed magazines. Seems that most people like a printed magazine sometimes - especially with a cup of coffee - and other times like the convenience of the digital version. I just hope we will always have a choice and printed magazines don't disappear completely.
I've spun the random number generator and number 4 came up - that's you Sandee. Congratulations your pattern is somewhere in cyberspace hopefully arriving in your inbox shortly.
Hearts....
On Saturday I had some sewing time and wanted to start something new. Lately I've 'discovered' some new blogs and one of them is Temecular Quilt Co. They really appeal to me because of their small quilts and reproduction fabrics. When I looked on their blog on Saturday, I found a small quilt project that looked pretty quick to make.
The hearts are paper pieced and the pattern is downloaded from Carol Doak website. I printed the pattern out on normal printing paper and planned to use that for the paper piecing. There are 4 hearts and I chose a selection of pink and red fabrics. When you download the hearts pattern, there is a cutting guide provided but I didn't follow that I just cut a strip from each of my fabrics and just trimmed it to fit the pattern as I went along.
It's been a long time since I've actually done any paper piecing so the first heart took me a while to figure out which way to place the pieces to ensure that they folded down and actually covered the required 'space'. Along the way I discovered that unpicking incorrect seams on paper is a bit tricky!
I was also a bit worried about how easily the paper would come away from the fabric but there were no problems at all - ripped right off.
Once I had finished one, the other 3 were really easy.
The Temecula Quilt Co blog has all the measurements for the sashings which made the finishing really quick.
I machine quilted mine in the ditch of the borders and around the hearts.
Finished size is 13" square.
It turned out to be a great weekend project and added to my Stash Busting Summer goal.
Until next time
Lyn
Hi Lyn, love the little hearts quilt. I have been a fan of Temecula Quilt Co for a year or so, it's also a favourite. I am just putting the binding on their Twelve Days of Christmas quilt they had on the blog, each day a new 3 1/2" block with the same number of pieces as the day (day one 1 piece, day two two pieces etc, up the 12 in the last one!). It was great fun to make, and I only used scraps!
Posted by: Meredith | February 20, 2012 at 05:58 PM
Your little hearts quilt is lovely. Your choice of colours are great too! Regards, Nessie
Posted by: Nessie | February 22, 2012 at 09:58 AM