Saturday 25 May 2013

Saturday Star

Well I had a "home alone" day today, waking up to an empty house, and it'll be just me until 10pm ish.

Much as I love my family, this is the best kind of day (once in a while at least!)

So in my pyjamas, over the first cup of coffee, I cut the biggest squares I could get out of my half metre dots.  Then I cut them into triangles.

Then I stitched and stitched and stitched.  Then pressed and pressed.  Then I joined the blocks into strips and then I realised what a beast I had created.  I joined two Ikea fleeces together and sewing the strips together, until I had this:

Isn't it wonderful!  I love this method of making a quilt top - I reckons HSTs aren't too bad when they are big, but these are probably too big, so I started a smaller version - then the iron packed up, so no more today.

(PS, if I turned this over you would see that two Ikea fleeces are not enough, I need to go and get a third!  So no more work on it for now, until I get to Ikea!  I can see errors: the puckered stitches and the mismatched seams, but I don't reckon you can!). 


9 comments:

  1. Puckering and mismatched seams? I dont see any and I have my glasses on!

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  2. These are the size of HSTs I get on with. Just...

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  3. Fabulous quilt in a day! I still want to do one like this ; )

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  4. Looks great Benta! But did I get this right? You want to take it apart and make it smaller or are you gonna make another one? How big is it?

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  5. Well done you! Looks like a lovely quilt top - hope you get to Ikea soon to get the extra fleece(s) that you need!

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  6. Guessing that is 80"plus!! Good fun though x

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  7. Now that was a productive day Benta :)

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  8. You've done lots of sewing since last week. I've just realised I've missed about four posts! This star has turned out beautifully :)

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