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About A Quilt Sampler QAL #9 : Piecing Block 4

May 10, 2013 4 Comments

Hi!

Welcome back to About A Quilt Sampler QAL. If this is your first time here, you can read more on this QAL by clicking here.

If you miss previous post you can always go back to all the post by clicking the button on my blog sidebar or below:

We are already on our fourth block with this QAL. The fourth block of this QAL is the leaf block.

It is a fairly simple nine patch having 4 pieces of half-square triangles , a block for the stem and others are just plain 4.5″ square pieces.

Here is how you should cut your fabrics.

From the solid, cut one 4 1/2″ square, two 2 7/8″ squares and two of 4 7/8″ squares
From the printed green fabric, cut four of 4 1/2″ squares and two of 4 7/8″ squares

Please note that I use 4 different type of green fabrics, you may stick to one or two. I just love the scrappy look.

For the stem block, take the 2 7/8″ solid piece and align it to one corner of one of the 4 1/2″ green square.

Sew along the diagonal. If you need to mark it first with a ruler and a pen, please be happy to do so.

Press seam and do the other corner.

As for the Half Square triangle pieces, take the solid piece and the green piece from the 4 7/8″ squares and piece them together by sewing two lines which are 1/4″ apart from the middle diagonal line. Again, if you need to mark the middle diagonal lines so that you can accurately sew the 1/4″ line on its side, please do so. Cut through this middle line and press the seam to one side or open.

Arrange the patch as so that you will now can piece all of them together row by row into the leaf block

Trim your block to 12.5″ and sandwich it. Will be quilting it soon.

Have fun!

Till next time,

Regards

XOXO

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About A Quilt Sampler QAL #8 : Quilting Block 3

April 22, 2013 2 Comments

Hi!

We are already on our third block for About A Quilt Sampler QAL.

Today I am sharing how I quilted mine.

I planned the flow of the free motion roughly on paper. The allover echoed leaves filled the plain triangles and a simple fan filling the four patches. As for the centre four patch, I decided to fill the plain patches with back and forth free motion lines.

Again, same with other blocks, I travel from one point to another through the ditch and through the outside of the block. You can see this squiggly travel lines outside the block from the back view. It’s okay, these lines will later be covered when we piece the sashings at the end.

I hope you have fun quilting this block! Feel free to share on flickr too. Till then, see you on the construction of the fourth block!

XOXO

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About A Quilt Sampler QAL #7 : Piecing Block 3

April 8, 2013 8 Comments

Hi!

I am back here with the third block for About A Quilt Sampler QAL.

Here is the third block as planned:

From the background fabric (here is white) ; cut 4 pieces 4 3/4″ square & 2 1/2″ x 15″ strip

For all the four patches, you will need 2 1/2″ x 10″ strips from three of the fabric and 2 1/2″ x 5″ strips for one of the fabric which will be the centre four patch.

For the sharp hidden star points, you will need two pieces of each of green and red with the size 2 5/8″ x 5 1/4″.

For the hidden star points, take the 2 5/8″ x 5 1/4″ pieces and stack the four pieces as shown, and cut diagonally. The two pairs have an opposite diagonal cut.

Fold the 4 3/4″ square background fabric in half and crease the fold just so slightly at the top.

Cut diagonally from the bottom corner to the mark as shown below:

Now you have the complete cut pieces for the star points.

Piece the points to the background fabric by aligning the point fabric to the equilateral triangle as so that the 1/4″ seam would meet at the diagonal edge

Do the same for the other half of the point and all of the other 3 blocks

Trim the little block to 4 1/2″ square

As for the four patches, sew the strips right side together on one of the long side. Make sure you pair them with the right one as you want it in the patches.

Cut the strips into 10 pieces of 2 1/2″ strips as shown below

Pieces the 2 1/2″ strips into 5 four patches and arrange them for the 9 patch block. Sew them all in rows and piece the rows to complete your block.

Trim the block to 12.5″ block.

Have fun! I have to say this is my favourite block so far..

I hope you like it too. Share on flickr if you made one!

XOXO

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About A Quilt Sampler QAL #6 : Quilting Block 2

March 27, 2013 8 Comments

Hi,

I am getting back on track, and hopefully by April I will be on track and on time with this About A Quilt Sampler QAL post.

If you are new here, and want to know more about this QAL and join in, click the button below or the one one my sidebar. It will always bring you to all the post related to this QAL.

Today I am sharing with you ideas on how to quilt your second block.

Same as the first block, I would really recommend you to practice doodling your quilting design. You can download a pdf file with the outline of this second block here.

I did some practice and tried different designs. It is also helpful to practice your travelling lines using this method, try not to pick up your pen and travel from one point to another via the ditch or the outside of the block.

For my block, I first make an echo line inside the cards. For all straight lines, I usually mark them with water soluble pen first (using a ruler) as I find it more precise to quilt on this markings. Otherwise, you can go “organic” and a little wonkies won’t hurt I guess.

Here is my block from the backside. This side shows more of the quilting design as it is on a plain fabric. As you can see, I do a lot of travelling on the ditch and outside of the block.

I hope you will have fun quilting yours. Share them on the flickr group. I would love to see your version!

Till then

XOXO

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About A Quilt Sampler QAL #5 : Piecing Block 2

March 13, 2013 6 Comments

Hi!

Sorry for being late. My sewing mojo is definitely taking a break, so I am pretty slow at my sewing machine.

I guess the really busy times and stress at school has taken me over. I am now feeling the pressure of being the 2nd year student…Yikes.

Anyway, today I am sharing with you the instruction for making the second block of the About A Quilt Sampler Quilt Along. This block is commonly known as the card trick block.

You will need 4 pieces of fabrics for the cards and 1 background fabric

From each of the card fabrics, cut 1 piece of 5 ¼” Square and 1 piece of 4 7/8” Square

From the background fabric, cut 1 piece of 5 ¼” Square and 2 pieces of 4 7/8” Square

From the 5¼” Square pieces, cut them into 4 piece of triangles by slashing through diagonally while from the 4 7/8” Square squares, cut in half diagonally so that you will have 2 pieces of triangle of each fabrics.

For the large triangles, match one of each piece of printed triangle to solid background ones and sew along the diagonal edge.

For the smaller triangles, do the same but this time sew on one of thesides of the triangles, making sure that the printed one would be on the right side.

Position the sewn pieces as below

Now place the leftovers of the large triangles into place as below

Place 4 pieces of the small triangles in the middle part and take note where the seams are to be sewn.

At this stage I normally put the pieces to be sewn right sides together and carefully place them so that I will know which sides to sew.

Once all the pieces are sewn into 4 ½” square, sew them row by row. Trim to 12.5” block. And voila! You are done with the 2^ndblock!

We will be quilting it soon!That post will be up this weekend.

XOXO

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About A Quilt Sampler QAL #4 : Quilting Block 1

February 20, 2013 12 Comments

Hi!

Firtsly I am sorry for putting this up a bit late. I was totally wrapped up with moving to a new house and unpacking.

Which; the whole thing had caused me to lose my block 1, so I piece another one. LOL.

Anyway, I am done quilting it!

Here it is :

So, for your block, you can try and design how you would want to quilt it. I suggest you to try and do a feature in the plain background.

In mine, I had that squiggly seaweed that I want to pop out.

You can be free and do whatever you fancy. It can be a triangle forming a star feature for the whole block like the one I design in photo below (in blue); or you can add curves (eg the green one) which would definitely give a new look to your block. This is why we call it custom quilting.

Once you determine the main feature, determine what type of filler quilting design you would like to use.
If you really want to pop out some parts of the quilting design, make sure you use very dense filler design.

I love scribbling as it is very dense and very easy to do and to travel from one place to another.
Here is a great VIDEO TUTORIAL for scribbling by Cindy Needham. Practice the filler quilting on a piece of scrap sandwich (by sandwich, I mean a small scrap of top, batting and backing)

I first outline the outer 1/4inch seam and outline my feature. Then I start quilting the filler surrounding the parts where I want the design to pop out. (in this case I quilt densely around the seaweed)

Layer your block with the batting and backing. Spray baste if required. Then off to the machine!

First quilt following the outline you drew, then quilt the dense design surrounding the outline.

I continue to do the corners by adding some swirly. I travel to these corners by quilting in the ditch. Do not worry, it doesn’t have to be really perfect, mine is far out but I am happy with them.

Back of the block:

As you can see, I also tried to to pop the octopus out.. if you do not have any fussy cut, don’t worry – even better, you can outline a diamond or and kind of shape in the middle and do a dense quilting around it. It will create a great texture and pop the featured shape out!

If you are a beginner in free motion quilting, here are some wonderful videos to start with:

Beginning and ending by Cindy Needham

Tons of filler designs by Leah Day

and many more inspiration on my pinterest board.

Till then,

I hope you have fun quilting them!

I love to see your work, so if you like, please share them on Flickr group!

XOXO,

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About A Quilt Sampler QAL #3 : Block 1

February 5, 2013 6 Comments

Hi!

The first block of this QAL is this block :

From the fabric chosen, cut as per measurement in the photo below:

From the 4 7/8″ square, we are going to make 4 pieces of Half Square Triangle. Put one dark value fabric with background fabric right side facing one another and draw the middle diagonal line.

Sew quarter of an inch on each side. And Cut it in half and press towards the darker fabric or press open if preferred.

Sew the pieces in three rows of HST and the 4 1/2″ squares together and press seam open or to side as shown. Piece the three rows together.

Trim to 12.5″ block. You are done!

Have fun making the block!

See you in the next round where we will be quilting it customly!

XOXO,

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About A Quilt Sampler Post #2 : QAYG Inroduction + Other Requirements + Lets Link Up Fabric Choices

January 15, 2013 14 Comments

Hi!

So, today I want to just give a brief

Quilt As You Go (QAYG) Introduction.

There are many ways of QAYG, you can see some tutorial here,here and here.

But the one we are going to use in this QAL is basically,

Quilting block by block.

Trim the batting and the backing off.

Attach the sashing fabrics for the top and the back.

Slit in strip of batting in the sashing.

And finish it off by hand or machine.

The detail of all of this steps, will be in a complete tutorial when the time comes (October).

Today, I just want you to have a general idea of how we are going about to do this quilt.

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Other Requirements

So, since we will be quilting as we go, we will also need to prepare the backing fabrics as we start.

You can use various fabric for backing, and one colour sashing like this:

(you’ll need 9 pieces of 13.5″ square, 1 yard of sashing fabric)

Or all the same for all blocks and another colour sashing.

(you’ll need 1.5 yards for the blocks and 1 yard for sashing)

Other things you will need:

Quilting threads – either one colour or various – matching to your fabrics

9 piece of 13″ square batting and 2.5 Strips of batting (start collecting scrap batting about that size from now or you can always cut the strips from the large batting piece anyway)

Free-Motion foot

Walking Foot

Standard Quilting Tools

An advantage if you have Supreme Slider and Machinger Gloves but not necessary

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Now lets link up our fabric choices for this Quilt along!

You can also add your photo to flickr group here.

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About A Quilt Sampler Post #1 : Schedule + Fabric Requirements

January 5, 2013 10 Comments

Welcome to the second post for the About A Quilt Sampler QAL! In this post, I will be sharing the QAL schedule and the fabric requirements.

If you happen to land here without having to know what it is all about, please visit the previous post here or you can go ahead to the archive page HERE.

ABOUT A QUILT SAMPLER QAL SCHEDULE:

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Blog Hopping and Quilt Along 2013

January 3, 2013 6 Comments

Hi!

This year I plan to join the fun of blog hops and quilt along including my own quilt along “About A Quilt Sampler” here.

(For those waiting for the post of the About A Quilt Sampler, there will be one this weekend on fabric requirements, hope you’ll join in!)

This January I will be a part of In Your Words Bloghop hosted by non other than the best cheerleader of them all, Madame Samm and for this hop, we have Lindawho have been working hard sorting all of the participants!

Isn’t it a great way to find new blogs and share our love of quilting and sewing. You can hop on the day of their blog hop or hop on now to see what they are already up to! Mine would be on the 10th!

Monday, January 7 Stitch, Stitch, Stitch, Stitch Kwilty Pleasures Debby Kratovil Quilts Sew Darn Quilt Mary On Lake Pulaski Traveling Quilter Just Let Me Quilt Vroomans Quilts Cate’s Linens Nini and the Sea Sew Much 2 Luv	Tuesday, January 8 Piece Peace A Stitch in Time krislovesfabric Sew Mollie Sue, Quilt Much? Marjorie’s Busy Corner Grandmamas Stories Mrs. Pickles Garden Patchouli moon Studio Till We Quilt Again The Slow Quilter Quilting With Terry and the Cats	Wednesday, January 9 Kathy’s Quilts Sunshine Quilting Sew Incredibly Crazy Quilt Doodle Doodles Doodling in My Mind I Like to Quiltblog Michelle’s Romantic Tangle Grammie Q’s Dancing Moon (Betty V.) at “that other blog” The Fuzzy Hat Quilter	Thursday, January 10 Life in the Scrapatch Just Sew Sue Nati’s Little Things Amy’s Crafty Shenanigans Pig Tales and Quilts Scrappy ‘n Happy Little Mushroom Cap Kwilty Pleasures Moosestash Quilting Sowing Stitches Just Quilt It
Friday, January 11 Jane’s Fabrics Jane’s Quilting Nuts 4 Redwork Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio Bits and Pieces Life in Every Breath Quilting Lines Travel Thru Greece Meadowbrook Count It All Joy! Sophie Junction	Monday, January 14 Gracie Oliver Arts Clothes and Crafts Cherrys Prairie Primitives Simple Sew Woolie Mammoth RocknQuilts Celynn’s Sunflower Patch A Quilting Sheep Sane and Crazy Quilting Quiltsmiles Feathered Nest Studio	Tuesday, January 15 BQuiltin Studio Hill Valley Quilter Bumbleberry Stitches Buzzing and Bumbling Outback Crafter In Stitches and Seams Englating Stitchin by the Lake Selina Quilts Sheila’s Quilt World Words & Stitches	Wednesday, January 16 My Collection of Things Quiltin’ Jenny Shade Tree Quilting Rosemary) at “that other blog” Pat Sloan, The Voice of Quilting Dachsies With Moxie Sew Many Yarns Tomorrows Treasures Today The German Mom Christa Quilts Read, Quilt, Cook, Pray Sew We Quilt