Two More

Two more quilt along blocks finished and photographed.

And there are only two more block designs to be made. Yipee!

Quilt Along -So Far

The Beginner's Quilt Along on the Quilting Gallery site (button on the left sidebar!) is already through block ten and I think block eleven posts tomorrow.  Soon I will have to decide on sashing fabrics and bindings.
For now, I have did a quick layout with each group of blocks I made.  I didn't do very good layouts.  I noticed that when I looked at the pictures.  Did you know that taking a picture of your layout really helps you spot things you could make better?  Well if you didn't "ya heard it here!"

Pictures!!!

On the second set (brown, gold, green and red) there are four blocks with embroidered applique and two blocks with fussy cut centers. The three blocks with solid centers are just begging to be blinged up with some  embroidered applique.  So I just have to decide "what" and do it.  I will say that it is easier to add it BEFORE making the block and then just cutting out the square to put in the center.  Oh well, I didn't decide until it was too late for that.  It sounds like a good time to use the sticky backed stabilizer.

There will be twelve blocks total...and one extra for an on point setting.  I will use ONE extra block on the backing.  I am thinking the rail fence type block will be the one for that.

Playing on the Seesaw

This edition of the Beginner's Quilt Along (block 8) is playfully titled,  Playing on the Seesaw.  You may know this as a Spool Block.  I made two versions, a warm version in brown, gold and red; and a bright version with my purple, aqua and white (with pin dots.)

 The bright one, I made first.  I thought I would be clever and cut the white strips at 12.5 by 5 and cut triangles to sew on the corners; you know, like making HSTs with two squares.  There is a reason no one does this.  It doesn't exactly work.  You may see that this doesn't match up perfectly on my bright one.

Then I made the warm one.

I did it by following the directions.  It came out much better.  Sadly it wasn't laying quite flat so, the lower right corner looks funny in the picture.  Trust me that it is really just fine.

That makes eight blocks out of twelve for each quilt.  I am moving right along with this quilt along.

If you wonder what a spool quilt would look like, I made one in EQ7 for you.  The Spool Block is in the EQ7  block library,  I didn't even have to draft it.