Bring the right hand corner down until it touches the opposite edge, crease with your thumbnail.
Open it up and use the crease as your stitching guide. Continue pulling strips from your pile and sewing them to the continuous strip. I found I preferred to work with strips that were 22" or shorter, I figure the more variety the better! I didn't measure as I went along, but stopped and measured about every half hour, so that I was getting up to move around too. I found I pieced on average 10 yards every thirty minutes, cool!
Trim all.
And I actually threw these away. It was so freeing, I can't tell you. :) I rationalized, if I stitched them again, they wouldn't make good HST's because the contrast would be too low.
Press open.
Next fold the strip in half RST and sew along one long side. Cut the bottom apart and press open, fold in half again and sew along the long side, and do this again and again. It's sooo fun! Everytime I opened it to press, I was delighted by the color play.
Here it is at 16 strips - or 32". Lila came to inspect my work.
On the next row, it turned the vertical into the horizontal. I love it! I didn't know it was going to do that, but I really like it. I was ready to do another one with a different set of strips to see what it would look like!
Close-up
Machine quilted
This took me a Sat/Sun to sew and 2-3 hours to machine quilt on my Janome. REALLY fast for me. I was so psyched!
This took me a Sat/Sun to sew and 2-3 hours to machine quilt on my Janome. REALLY fast for me. I was so psyched!
5 comments:
Love everything about it - including how speedy it was to make!
Hi Leslie, thanks for letting me know *VBS* It looks absolutely lovely. Love the color choices, and personally I'm totally hooked on the construction method and using it as mindless sewing. It gobbles up the strips and gives such a nice looking top. Big hugs, Finn
P.S. LOVE the red/brown on you finished recently...it's wonderful!
Wow, while I have been on "medical leave" you have really put the "pedal" down. It feels good to see all your lovely creations.
Love the colour choices...it looks wonderful.
Looking great! Looking forward to making one some day myself! 8-)
Back to Finn's now...
Happy stitchings!
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