Red and White

Today finds me with a head cold and

with family flying in to visiting tomorrow for a few days.

So not great timing.

Prayers Requested.

I am have made myself chicken soup meanwhile....

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Some wash cloth knitting done, but not a lot else.

I did however finish the quilting block

for my Quilt Guild Meeting!

We raffle the blocks we win off at the meeting....

No one was more surprised than myself

that I won them!

I have a great idea for a quilt using them

but it will be a surprise gift God willing and not started

until I finish the first two quilts I am working on!

Reading is still the book of Saint's lives - and cookbooks.

It's a busy season so not a lot of reading...sadly...

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What are you reading and creating?

Yarn Along with us!

{Quilting Adventures} ~ Learning a 9 Patch Variation

I learned this in my local quilt guild and sewing classes!

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Using pens with ink that disappears with ironing,

three centre lines, 1/4" apart.

Sew on two outer lines....

two squares together, wrong side out on both ends...

when sewn together cut the middle line...

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Another way to do this is the just do the centre line

and use the 1/4 guide on the presser foot to made the two

1/4 lines on either side of the centre,

which is the line that you cut to make the two sewn triangles. 

And you have two half triangle squares! 

These were made larger than needed so that after

they could be cut down to size.

I used the strip cutter to do this and messed up on two of them,

forgetting to put them on the 45 degree angle line where

the red and white meet in the middle...

My quilting friend was helping me so she redid these for me,

as I was running out of time!

2.5 inch squares, 8 of them, from measured strips of fabric

sewn together and then cut with a 'strip cutter', inverted

red and white make this cute 4 patch!

I am learning how important ironing before and after sewing 

these is important so that one does not lose

the right dimensions...

Then you put it together, with a centre red piece already cut out

to proper size!

Now I just have to sew it all together

for a very fun quilt block!