9th
October
2008
Thursday Thirteen #9
- Choose fabrics, 1 “focus” fabric that will be used in between the pieced strips, 5 coordinating fabrics to use for pieced strips and 1 background fabric.
- Cut all pieces except focus fabric and store in labeled baggies.
- Draw diagonal lines on 18 background squares and 36 color squares for use on bow ties and flying geese.
- Stitch together piano keys (2nd multi-colored row in picture)
- Stitch together the confetti stripe. The directions say to stitch to long rows and then seam them together. I chose to piece together smaller blocks and then piece the blocks together. The end result is the same, but I found it easier to match the seams. (4th multi-colored strip in photo)
- Piece and stitch together the 9-patch blocks. This was done by first piecing strips together and then cutting them in to 2 1/2 inch segments. 3 of the smaller segments were then pieced together to form each block. (top multi-colored strip in photo)
- Using the squares that have diagonal lines on the (drawn earlier) piece together the bow tie blocks. Piece each block together. (bottom multi-colored strip in photo)
- using rectangles and squares, piece together the flying geese. This was probably the most interesting because it requires using squares to make triangles. I did enjoy this one the most.
- Stitch all of the geese together making sure not to cut off their noses. (middle mult-colored row in photo)
- measure all multi-colored rows and add or take away to make them the same length. I did add one piano key. Pressing the rest made them all pretty equal.
- Cut focus fabric to same length as all multi-colored strips
- Cut 6 strips of focus fabric to be 6 1/2″ x width of fabric (determined in previous step)
- Sew alternating strips together to get a finished quilt top.
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