![]() To help further this quilt along, I’ve been collecting black-and-white prints to go with other 400 black-and-white prints (dear, I’m kidding). ![]() I’ve always wanted a Freddy Moran-style quilt, and now it looks like I’ll make one. You can read more about this project, written a few whiles ago, but basically I got the idea from Surfside Quilters, from their Blocks of the Month page. Several of my Piece Maker Quilt Ladies have arrived from the Gridster Bee, along with their cloth sewing treasures, like buttons and rotary cutters and topiary trees. Like me, in my almost early days…this probably won’t be done by Christmas. Many iterations and consultations with my quilt gurus (I have a couple) and I ordered some more red fabric. So as long as I was playing around, what would the quilt look like with red? I quite liked it. It’s because I wanted a longer drop on the sides, and didn’t have enough of the beige fabric (earlier version is seen here). Why do I bring this up? Because Tannenbaum will most likely suffer the same fate, arriving somewhere around Twelfth Night. (And she did get up early that morning to get the ironing done before she went to the hospital.) Now I share a birthday with Richard Nixon, the arrival of the Three Kings and the Storming of the Capital. But I came 12 days later on Twelfth Night, and dodged forever having my birthday on Christmas. ![]() Who would help the other three young girls? Who would get the ironing done? But I did not arrive on my due date. Many years ago, my mother stayed up all night on the 24th of December, worried that the child she was carrying would actually come on the due date of Christmas Eve. I am happy to have this great inspiration, so thank you Sherri and Chelsi! I also bought two half-yards of the strongest colors perhaps that is overkill, but I didn’t want to let this line get away from me. I started with one fat-eighth stack of Sincerely Yours, from Sherri and Chelsi, then purchased four one-yard lengths of the lights (always good for the stash, if I don’t use them all). While the theme is Heart’s Garden, there aren’t a billion hearts on this quilt, so you could make it in other palettes or groupings of fabric or from scraps. I use several methods of construction: piecing, appliqué, English Paper Piecing for starters. We will deal with any variations in the next post, coming mid-month February. If you are curious, your circle will probably measure about 12 1/4″ in diameter, largely due to the thickness of all those fabrics spreading it apart. And yes, I’ve probably made millions of mistakes, but after sewing over three dozen EPP circles, I’m getting the hang of it. Yes, I’ve been doing the EPP-circle-bit a while now, and there are lots of tips and tricks under the tab SHINE: The Circle Quilt (found above). Pin it evenly around the circle while on a flat surface. ![]() You’ll have a giant cross so you get your circle centered. I always iron creases: fold in half, iron fold in half the other way iron. Then cut a large square the size mentioned in the pattern. Other times I appliqué it to the background square, then sew on the center circle.įor this round, do the center circle first. Sometimes I put the circle on first, then appliqué it the background. I write about how I do the center circle in this post, and I will again express my undying love for Karen Kay Buckley’s Perfect Circles: both sizes. This helps when you go to stitch on the center circle. One trick I use for the inner circle is that I don’t glue down the inner curve, instead leaving it flat. I always love the look of these from the back. Once I’ve gotten this far, I sew those last two seams. For example, I join one G1 to the F point, then add the G2, taking an extra stitch at that outer point. I also like to take stitches across the seam points on the outside curved edge, for stability. I like to sew it in two sections, as it is easier to hold it. I’ve placed small colorful dots to help guide you in getting the pieces sewn. Prep them for English Paper Piecing, then start stitching them back together in the units. Follow the directions and print off four pages of, then cut them apart on the lines.
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