Friday Finish

Hot on the heels of Blue Chunky Chevron came another finish . . . Pink Chunky Chevron!

Amazing how much sewing you can do in front of junk TV when really you should be doing college work!!!!!

Finally A Finish

I don't feel as if I've finished a quilt for months, but at last the Baby Blue Chunky Chevron quilt has been bound

Ooops

Previously I have had a resources allowance for the Adult Education classes, so I have just claimed that and then supplied everything from home.  Now I have to submit receipts and claim what I have spent.  So that gave me an excellent excuse to go shopping.

So in the first shop . . . picture fabrics, more needles, more pins (where do they all go?) fabric pens and Dalmatian fabric for the classes

And binding for me for the yellow Chunky Chevrons, and for the pink and for the blue Chunky Chevrons

Slik and Quick Chunky Chevrons

I love the yellow Chunky Chevron Quilt, so decided to make a few more - a pink one.

And then a blue one. 

 

This time I took stage photos so I'll remember next time , so if you are interested, here are instructions for one of the quickest, cheapest and cuddliest quilts you can make.  I really do mean quick - it took me 90 minutes to put this top together - from pulling the fabrics from stash, to sufficiently quilted, just 90 minutes!

You will need 1.5 yards assorted fabrics equalling 10 strips of fabric - width of fabric (minus the selvedge edges) x 5 inches, You can get more 5" strips from a FQ than from a thin Q, unless its very generously cut.  If you want to, pre-join into one long strip for each fabric.

And you will need a piece of fleece about 80cm x 110 cm (30"x44" ish)  I used an Ikea one, cut in half with the fancy ends trimmed off.  You can make this quilt as large as you want, but this size works perfectly for a child.


Finger press a triangle at the end of one strip, matching the edge like this, and neatly cut along the folded edge.(this gives you a right angle isosceles triangle)

Place the triangle, right side up, long edge along one edge of fabric. Anywhere.  Really!  Maybe anywhere except close to the middle, now you don't have to worry about it being symmetrical!

Take a strip of a different fabric, and place it on top, matching one side (right sides together), pin and stitch in place, flip open, and press (plenty of pins as fleece stretches)

Repeat, along the opposite edge

And again, and again and again

Trim any excess as you go along (These cuts will be at 45 degrees, and to use them economically some strips can be started at the edge of the quilt rather than at the tip of the chevron)

Continue until the fleece is covered.  If it gets bulky in the throat of the machine (to the right of the needle) roll the excess fabric to make it easier

You can now quilt it: perhaps echo quilt some of the chevrons


But if you don't want to, it's no problem.  By using the fleece as a foundation piece you have already quilted the layers together

so there wont be any movement, so you can go ahead and bind. 

There should be some 5 inch strips left over.  I made them into 2.5inch strips - perfect to join into a strip and use for scrappy binding.  (If you cut your binding wider or narrower than I do, I suggest you cut your strips at double your binding width)

The quilt police will tell us that is it NOT a quilt as a quilt needs to have three layers, but any child will tell you that this is super soft and cuddly, and the clock will tell you it's really quick

Chunky Chevrons

I managed to spend some time sewing on Sunday, and then a bit of time quilting (!!!!) and here is Chunky Chevrons in Yellow.  I cut half a dozen yellow fabrics (mostly FQs) into 5 inch strips and then started with a triangle off centre along one side of a fleece blanket.

The strips were then added (right sides together, stitch and flip method) on alternating sides until the fleece was full.

I then echo quilted each side of each chevron with more or less straight lines, and also a few extra echoes on every other one

Now I just need to get some more yellow for a binding!