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Welcome to Step 2 where we begin to sew all our lovely triangles together to make them into squares again. So, you have cut all those 360 gorgeous triangles, yes? Bella loves them This time around hosting this QAL, I've split sewing the quilt top into three steps: we will make a third of the quilt at a time. This way I can show you some super-cool tips for construction which will make your assembly life a lot easier. Now maybe you're a quilter like me, who often cuts a bunch or sometimes even a bit of the quilt out, and starts sewing because I just have to see what it's going to look like. So you may not have all your triangles cut, but you've started sewing. That's fine. This QAL is not hard and fast on rules, other than I have been asked by Kelly Liddle, the designer, to only share the pattern with participants, and that, I realize, is on the honour system, so please do show your progress and we can cheer each other on. Labelling Tip #1 It is imperative to keep the colours numbered and clipped together. I found that my stick-on labels often fell off after the amount of handling all these triangles take. To avoid the peril of not having a clue which number the various pinks are if labels have fallen off, I clip the triangles together ensuring my clip is also holding the stick-on label AND I also label the top triangle in the seam allowance with its appropriate number. Below you can see #22 Thistle pulled out of my basket of 36 colours. Each one of the 36 is similarly labelled and clipped with either a binder clip or clothespeg. When I pull out a Thistle triangle, I take it off the bottom, so the top triangle that is labelled with my Micron Pigma pen is always on top until the last one of that colour gets used. Pressing Tip Follow Kelly's excellent numbering system for assembling her design, and you will see that for Row A Column 1 square you take Lipstick and Bright Pink and sew them together. Easy. If you've used an AccuQuilt die to cut them, press open or to one side and you're done. Personally, I like to press to one side for a quilt with a lot of HSTs, so that you can nest the seams, which gives you lovely perfect intersections. For the most part. I mean I am human. If pressing to one side, press all the seams in Row A in one direction (i.e. to the right) and all the seams in Row B to the opposite (i.e. to the left). Trimming Tip If you've not used an AccuQuilt die, here is a tip that will cut your squaring up time in half! Stack two HSTs on top of each other. Wiggle the seams along the bias together. You can feel them butt up against each other. Carefully set them down on your cutting mat. One of the rotating ones by Olfa works wonderfully for this. If you don't have one, (I do not) simply set a smaller mat on top of your large one, and place the squares on the smaller mat. Carefully set your ruler on top of the stacked squares, aligning the 45° line along the bias seam. Trim two sides. Turn the small mat carefully around, and trim the opposing two sides. Voilà! Two HSTs trimmed. It takes a bit of practice, but you will soon get the hang of this and use it everywhere. I rarely trim HSTs one at a time now. Labelling Tip #2 Take a Micron Pigma pen or any permanent labelling pen and write within the seam allowances, A1 on the Lipstick/Bright Pink square, A2 on the Thistle/Cerise square and so on. Do this after you press to one side, somewhere close to the middle of the squares. Get diva cat who loves to be in photos, out of the way... Construction tip Kelly has you assemble the quilt in rows. I found that assembling the HSTs into blocks of four, pinwheel style, worked better for construction. This way you can spin the seams so that centre intersection where 16 layers of fabric meet, will lie flat. Here is A1/A2 sewn with B1/B2 into a pinwheel. You will get the hang of gently easing apart the centre to form a teeny-tiny pinwheel there. A hint for how to do this is to press the horizontal long centre seam up on one side, down on the other depending on which way you diagonal seams are 'spinning'. Note how all the seams here spin in an anti-clockwise direction. Two years ago I made a short video on how to do this using a 4-patch block. The same principle applies for this one, which is a 4-patch in actuality. How to Spin Seams is on my YouTube channel. Hope these tips help! Organization is key for this quilt. Then again, if one or two triangles are out of place who is really going to know? 😉 Another minor correction My good friend Debbie in New York (she has a good eye!) emailed me to let me know that the last square on Row E is oriented differently on Kelly's actual quilt, as compared to her quilt layout diagram. It is not a major error; my first quilt is made according to the layout and looks fine. Flimsy of my 2018 quilt Compare the quilt along graphic to my photo, and you decide which way you want that green square: 14/15 as in the layout, or 15/14 as in Kelly's quilt! Thank you Debbie! You now have two weeks to get the top third of the quilt sewn together. If you are assembling it in rows, that will be the first five rows. If you are assembling it in the pinwheel method I showed you here, then you have a choice: assemble the first four or six rows. You know your own schedule and real life demands! Please be sure to link up a photo in the hashtag pool #postcardfromswedenqal2022 and tag me @mmmquilts Your Instagram account must be public to have your photo show up in the hashtag pool. If you don't have Instagram, you can email me a photo and I can post it for you. Click View my complete profile on my sidebar for my address or: ephdra at gmail dot com Happy piecing!
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I, along with Helen of Midget Gem Quilts, recently hosted a QAL for making the absolutely gorgeous Postcard from Sweden quilt, a pattern I downloaded from Craftsy (free!!) shortly after I became a member. It is designed by the talented Kelly of Jeli Quilts. Here is my finished quilt back in April on the little stone bridge over Mill Creek which runs into Lake Erie: Whilst making the quilt, I came up with a few strategies, as it were, (I'm channelling my mum here, I can hear her voice in my head) to help with the construction and pressing of the quilt. I took photos which I popped on Instagram, intending to write this post oh, over a month ago. It took the Tips and Tutorials Festival going on at Meadow Mist Designs and Quilting Jet Girl to spur me to writing it up. Tip 1 The first one helps with organizing the myriad of HSTs. Suggestions are to label with either Washi tape or white sticky labels. The first problem is they can fall off (ask me how I know that, ha) and the second is that pressing seams with one of these under the iron is not a good thing. So I hit upon writing with either a permanent marker or a Micron pen in the seam allowance to label the paired HSTs. No more lost labels! Tip 2 The second tip is on pressing. Kelly has you construct the quilt in rows. I found that putting the HSTs together in blocks of four, pinwheel style gave me a great pressing advantage: I could spin the seams where so many intersected. For this you just have to press alternate rows in alternate directions. For example, odd numbered rows might have the diagonal seam pressed to the right, while even numbered rows would have those seams pressed to the left. Instead of sewing the row together, take two HSTs from, say, row A, let's say they're A1 and A2, and pair them with the same numbers of row B, which would be B1 and B2. Press the vertical seams in the same direction as the diagonals go, and then sew the horizontal seam to make the block of four HSTs. Gently open a couple of stitches right at the centre, and continue pressing the horizontal seams in the same flowing direction as the diagonal seams are going (see above). You will get a cute little 'quilt block' at the very centre. The magic is that where you join the blocks of four, the seams will be pressed in opposite directions, so they nest perfectly! This ensures a nice and flat quilt top, with no lumps at the centres where 16 layers meet! Furthermore, the seams all nest or butt up beautifully against each other for nice crisp points and intersections! Tip 3 The third tip with this quilt will cut your squaring up of HSTs time in half! I forgot to take photos as I constructed this quilt, but I used another one I'm working on, Tish N Wonderland's Fireburst Mystery Quilt, to show you how it works. I've also written about this method before, here. First of all, press the diagonal seam to one side, the dark side is what I usually do. Then stack two just-sewn HST units atop each other, abutting the diagonal seams. You can wiggle them together; you'll feel the two ridges butting up against each other, and trust me, you get really good with practice. You can pull back the top corner to check: Check the opposite corner to ensure the dog ears are on either side of the seam, which is centred exactly between them. Lay a ruler with a 45° angle along the stitched seam. Trim the two sides as shown. Now! You might notice I have a small cutting mat on top of my large cutting mat. This is my cheap-ass alternative to the Olfa rotating cutting mat. Of course, if you have one, this is a perfect opportunity to use it! Once you've cut the first two sides, swivel the mat so you can get ready to cut the remaining two sides. Cut! Notice that the seam lines are going exactly (yeah!) through the points at either end of the HSTs! Finally, unstack the two HSTs, and.... (drum roll 🥁)... Voilà! Two HSTs all trimmed up in the cutting time it took to do one. 😀 When you have 180 of these puppies to do, as for the Postcard from Sweden quilt, this can sure save your wrist and save you time! Tip 4 Once you have your quilt quilted, it can sometimes be daunting to try to square it up. You may have a 15" square and a 24" ruler but your quilt size is 48" x 60" or 60" x 75". This query came up during the QAL, and so I took a couple of photos of how I did my PfS quilt. For most of you, this may not be anything new. I'm using my 15" square. Lie it down in the corner, aligning the horizontal and vertical lines with seams, and the 45° line on an appropriate seam on the quilt. Trim the two sides. I went slightly beyond 1/4" past the points so I would be sure NOT to cut any off with the binding! Repeat with the opposite corner along this same side. I'm doing the shortest side first, the 48" side. Without moving the 15" square after you cut, carefully butt up your 24" ruler against it, ensuring you are lining up seams with lines on the ruler. Trim. Repeat this for the other short side. The long side is a bit trickier. 15" + 15" + 24" = 54" which isn't quite long enough for the 60" side (which is the short side if you've made the large version of this quilt! Did you follow that?!) It will still work if you align the markings on your ruler with seams on your quilt, gently pulling them into submission, ha! (my secret's out) and knowing that once the quilt is laundered, you can block it (that's another post, ha) to make them behave and be square! When I had a lovely large basement floor upon which to work, I'd take my cutting mats to the floor and work there. This cutting counter works quite well though and isn't so hard on the knees! Once you've trimmed all four sides, step back, or in my case, because it was just misting rain at the time, stay IN and toss your freshly trimmed quilt down on the deck for a quick 'AHH!' photo: Nice 'n square; we like that! An absolute RsOT of colour; we LOVE that, right?! I hope these tips helps for your own Postcard from Sweden quilt. My original finish post is here. And here's one more pretty shot on the bench in Lakeside Park. I miss going here on a daily basis (our previous home was within walking distance) and watching everything grow and bloom and be glorious! Might have to drive over this weekend and see what's happening. Foof! Got this post done just in the nick of time to link up!
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This T-shirt features a "Menopause Warrior" logo in pink. It has a lightning bolt running through it. The logo is placed in the upper left of the chest area. It comes in a variety of sizes and colors, like white, black, military green, aqua, turquoise, baby blue, gray, and medium blue. This classic unisex jersey short sleeve tee fits like a well-loved favorite. Soft cotton and quality print make users fall in love with it over and over again. These t-shirts have-ribbed knit collars to bolster shaping. The shoulders are tapered for a better fit over time. Dual side seams hold the garment's shape for longer. .: Made with 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton, a lightweight fabric (4.2 oz/yd² (142 g/m²)) that is easy to layer, breathable. Perfect for active and leisure wear. .: The retail fit that is perfect for casual and semi-formal settings. The crew neckline adds a classic, neat style that's perfect for accessorizing. .: Bella+Canvas manufactures all its products in the US and internationally in humane, no-sweat-shop, sustainable way and is part of the Fair Labor Association as well as Platinum WRAP certified. .: The tear-away label minimizes skin irritations. .: Fabric blends: Ash and Heather Prism colors - 99% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester; Heather and Solid Blend colors - 52% cotton, 48% polyester; Athletic Heather and Black Heather - 90% cotton, 10% polyester.
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It's almost like Christmas morning the day this post goes live and I start to see the house blocks being linked up. I'm thrilled by those I've seen so far on Instagram and blogs. It is such a thrill when I turn a design I sketched out on graph paper into real live fabric, but when I see others make my design, it is even more of a thrill. As I noted last week, the pattern has virtually endless possibilities for making it your own unique quilt, and already I've seen 'outside the box/block' thinking! Andrée added a sidewalk to her first block, breaking up the lawn, and Rose has decided to not do various stars on all of her houses...but you may have to wait for a bit to see what she's been up to, that rebel. If you didn't catch it on my Instagram, here is my first house block, done in purple for two reasons: 1. it honours the first house block I made from my graph-paper sketch, which was done in purple because that was that year (2017) colour that month, and 2. it happens to be this year's colour of the month (April)! Check towards the end of the post for a couple of tips for this block Except for the Ohio Star on the side of the house, the grass, and the sky, the block is made entirely of pieces from 'Broken Glass', a new line by Island Batik. According to the UPS email notification I got Sunday evening, a 10" stack of squares is arriving at my house on Monday! It's one of the main prizes I'll be shipping to one lucky winner. This week, I'm highlighting two more fabulous sponsors who I hope you will support when you can. Canuck Quilter Designs has been a sponsor every single year. Many years ago, 2014, to be exact, when Joanne had first started venturing into the world of designing, I discovered her 'Snow Along', a QAL where we made paper-pieced snowflakes that are exquisite. I was so not a fan of paper-piecing, but I joined because one of my new online friends, Judy, was doing it, and like most things, quilting is always better with friends. Well, I learned how to paper-piece using freezer paper, so you do NOT sew through the paper! It was one of those eureka, quilt-life-changing moments, and I now love paper-piecing, always always do not sew through the paper, and never ever have to rip off that pesky paper. It's all thanks to Joanne and joining her QAL all those years ago. So you never know when something can completely alter your quilty life. My very first QAL, in 2017, used this freezer-paper technique to paper-piece the maple leaf point! The tutorial is here. Joanne has some stunning designs. I made her Blaze pattern for one of my Island Batik ambassador projects, but one of my all-time favourite designs of hers is the one she designed to commemorate the eclipse in August 2017. She is offering one winner a free PDF pattern of their choice. AND!! (drumroll) For my readers only, she is offering a special discount code: MMM2023 which will give you 10% off any of the 63 patterns in her shop! It should apply automatically by clicking that link, but if not, just apply the MMM2023 code. This code is effective for you throughout the entire QAL. Quilting Jetgirl is also one of my long-time sponsors for my annual QAL. I got to know Yvonne when she was a host for the New Quilt Bloggers group. I would go on to be a host myself one year! Again, see where venturing into the unknown can take you. I joined in with one of Yvonne's early, if not the first, QALs: Wayward Transparency back in 2017. It was my take-to-yoga-class quilt during the month of February. I always sit on the edge of a folded-up quilt (good for your low back and hips) when I teach, and sometimes it's handy to put on my lap if the gym is cold! Her current QAL is a beauty of a quilt. This is one of the options you can make. You can check out this QAL (what's one more, right?) and you can still join in, by clicking below: Yvonne is offering one winner a $12 coupon to her shop! Homework for April 17 For next week, make another house block! If you check the schedule, you'll notice that it is one block per week for both quilts, with the twin getting some extra assignments starting in week 3, which is next Monday. Can you work ahead? Absolutely! Here is a little tip for trimming the QST units when you make the Ohio star. These need to be trimmed to 2.5", so the first thing to do is set the 1.25" point, indicated by the red arrow, on the very centre intersection. Gently wiggle your ruler back and forth until the corner of your ruler is on the upper right corner diagonal seam and the 2.5" mark is on the lower right diagonal seam, both indicated by the yellow arrows. The 2.5" marks should be on the upper and lower left diagonal seams. The second tip is that I fold potential fabric into the basic shape of the house parts when I'm auditioning fabrics. None of the pieces below were cut other than the sky HSTs and the door, but I got a pretty good idea of how my house would look. I plan to use the door fabric for all the houses, as it has a stained or etched glass look to it, and interesting dye effects. Let's see those first houses! Link up below. If you don't have a blog, and don't do Instagram, email me a photo and I'll post it for you, and link it below. You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter
