My current #1 priority is to attach the binding to my EZ Dresden mini quilt for which I'll be posting a tutorial on Friday for the blog hop. I've got a teeny bit of hand-stitching to do still as well. I've already shown a couple sneak peeks, but here's another.
The next priority item on my plate right now is this melon patch quilt. My best friend is getting re-married at the end of the month and I really wanted to make her and her new hubby a quilt. I've got my work cut out for me to get this finished by the time we head out to Oregon in a few weeks! The quilt will be four blocks by four blocks. Each block measures 16 inches, I think (or is it 18?), so it'll be a nice sized throw quilt. The fabrics are Anna Maria Horner's Innocent Crush (Potpourri colorway) and Kona white.
I'm still considering this next block a WIP since I haven't made it to the post office yet (sorry, Angela!).
For May in the Sew Beautiful Bee, Angela asked for improv pineapple blocks using this tutorial. She sent out a bunch of Hawaiian prints for us to use as the center square with blues, greens, and oranges for the strips and corners. I'm so excited to see her quilt come together. It's going to be gorgeous!
This last block isn't a WIP for me, but I think it still is for Sam, and since I haven't blogged about it yet, I'm including it here. In our local guild bee, La Beeda Loca, Sam asked us to make paper-pieced single girl blocks. I've done a bit of paper piecing and I still find it a bit challenging. I'm not sure what it is about it though. If anyone has any tips they'd like to share, I welcome them!
That wraps up what I've been working on the last little while. I've made a couple simple dresses for my three-year-old that I haven't had the chance to photograph yet. I'll hopefully post about those one of these days. In the meantime, you should check out the other WIP Wednesday posts, the EZ Dresden blog hop posts (there have been some really great ones so far!), and then come back here on Friday for my EZ Dresden tutorial.
Happy Wednesday, everyone!
8 comments:
Eeek! That orange peel quilt will be stunning, good luck! Great bee blocks :-)
I am really liking those orange peel quilt blocks. Can't wait to see it finished.
Wow, your melon patch quilt is incredible! It looks great with Innocent Crush. :)
I am in loooove with that Melon Patch quilt! Gorgeous! Thanks for linking up to WIP Wednesday. : )
Oh that melon patch - gorgeous! Actually everything's gorgeous here.
Looking forward to seeing your dresden!
Paper piecing--I now love it, thanks to the book and method I found! "Quick Strip Paper Piecing" by Peggy Martin. She also has a Craftsy class for her method; I recommend it!
No cutting swatches, just strips. It's super helpful with multiple units of a block, because it's very assembly line-like. Quick and easy and no headaches! She also shows you how to measure your foundations so you know how wide to cut your strips, so you can apply her method to blocks everywhere. I do!
Is the melon patch blocks the quilt that was shown last night at the SLMQG meeting last night? Those blocks look cool. I have not yet tried to sew a curve been afraid of them. Are they hard to do?
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