Safe at Home Row 4

Last week I worked on getting the fourth row of the Safe at Home quilt done. As I cut the various colored pieces I laid them out to make sure I had a good mixture.

I got to use some of my tools like the Seams Easy, alas this seems to no longer be an available product but this Omnigrid/Fons&Porter version would work well too.

This block is almost all half-square triangles so there were a lot to size up. I finally got to use my Bloc-Loc half-square triangle trimmer, and boy oh boy does this thing ever help!

After getting all those HST trimmed to size, it was time to lay out some blocks and get sewing.

I like this one!

I took snapshots of the preferred layouts of each block before I started sewing. That way I could make sure they ended up together as planned.

I'm glad I took the time to cut out a lot of prints for this one, it was worth it.

I am really liking the mixture of batiks with more modern prints and solids.

There are two colors of grey in this too, can you tell? The corner squares are a different fabric, it's a slightly different shade as well as texture. It's got a much rougher surface and looser weave.

All five blocks came together well.

Here's how all four rows look hanging up together. I haven't sewn them to each other yet, waiting to get all the rows done and see if I like the final layout.