Piecing together beautiful scraps to create clever, practical items ~ sharing dreams, ideas, and stories
Monday, May 3, 2021
Easy Does It
Last
week I finished the first of two quilts that I pieced while we were
camping. This tumbler design is a cute one, quick and easy to sew!
Bright blue and fresh green with white and gray make it perfect for
baby or springtime décor.
For
quilting, I used white thread to straight stitch around each color
layer. Two serpentine lines of quilting on the borders finished it
off nicely. I used the larger white and blue dot fabric for backing.
Easy Does It finished out as a 37” x 50” rectangle.
Fabric
Sale Follow Up: Well, I finished washing, measuring, folding, and
sorting my latest fabric bonanza. Final count for this amazing
purchase was 176 flour and sugar sacks and 170 yards of quilting fabric, plus
37 hand stitched vintage quilt blocks.
It's
all entered into my inventory spreadsheet, with swatches on index
cards filed by color in my master notebook. If I didn't have this
system in place, I'd never be able to find anything! As it is, I'm running out of space and storage bins, so I need to get busy stitching. I'm
not sure what to sew first but I already have dozens of ideas.
Last
week I finished the first of two quilts that I pieced while we were
camping. This tumbler design is a cute one, quick and easy to sew!
Bright blue and fresh green with white and gray make it perfect for
baby or springtime décor.
