twelve

Twelve is my new favourite number.

That's because I have twelve of these and I'm going to make them into a quilt. Usually I like a square quilt but this will be a rectangle.

The finished blocks are 16 inches square. Okay, so not twelve.

I was browsing the 'Net and found some videos on Quilt-As-You-Go with no sashing. It involves a lot more hand sewing but I don't mind that. It also means that I can comfortably quilt each block first.

To do that, I have another twelve. Inches that is. On my new sewing machine. Of throat space.

I'm really excited to have a machine (and on sale at 50% off retail mind you) that is a whole nine more inches of throat space than on my other machines.

Okay, so I'm more than a bit rusty when it comes to free motion but hey, it's a start. I used an 11 inch quilt stencil and manipulated the design to fill out to 15 inches. 

Look at those 12 inches of throat space! Did I say I was excited? You bet I am - jumpy claps!

chains

This weekend proved to be less eventful than the last and I've been able to catch up on some stitching and made some of these . . . 

and these . . .

and these . . .

until I had these . . .

I am one and a half blocks away from having enough to start putting this together as a quilt top but there has been a change of plans. More about that next post.

I've just noticed that I have put some of these blocks together the wrong way. Oh well, I can see a little unpicking in my future!

mistakes

I've made a few

When I finally got around to spending some time at the sewing table I got real friendly with the stitch un-picker.

Unperturbed, I carried on.

Then ran out of thread.

Went to the store.

Drove around looking for a park.

Found the thread.

Joined a long queue.

Kept 1.5m social distancing.

Hand sanitised.

Drove home.

In traffic.

Filled bobbins.

Made tea. Ate cake.

Ran out of half square triangle blocks.

Measured, Cut, Stitched. Snipped. Pressed.

I'm off to catch up on all your blog posts.