Summer's End Post Card

 

I have a fabric postcard to make and send by tomorrow, so here's the beginnings before I began stitching. Yes, those are mostly Metro Twist scraps.

I went a little extreme on the machine embroidery.

A lot of stitching. Some of which was impacted by stitching on only one layer of fabric and batting.

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A detail before I added the final fabric piece.

The finished piece.

Details including stitched edges.

I like how this one piece of + + + + + + fabric looks like a ribbon.

I had fun doing circles on the "roof edges." Hopefully my recipient will enjoy receiving the card.

120° Degrees

 

This is mostly for me, but here's how I did the 120° corners on the mini quilt/tablerunner. Mark a diagonal line at the corner and stop stitching on or just shy of that point. Make sure and backstitch.

This step is where we see the biggest difference in applying binding to 90° corners, when you fold the binding back over itself- align the raw-edge bottom of the binding straight with the bottom edge of the next section around the corner you're working on of the item being bound.

The next step is to fold the binding down back over itself,  and then pinning down that fold. 

Start stitching (and backstitch) on that same point where you stopped before, at the center diagonal of the corner and 1/4" away from the raw edge.

Repeat those steps with all the corners, join your binding ends as per usual.

I sewed the binding down from the front by machine as this is going to be a frequently machine washed item. The trick to this is to go more slowly than usual, and take your time folding the binding on the corners.

Some closeups of how the binding looks.

I like how a new word is suggested because of the piecing, It looks like "dictrum" maybe?

More views of the words fabric and the quilting.

This turned out to be a fun project, and now I don't have these pieced triangles sitting around.

Here's how the corner binding looks, I did a needle-down pivot and stitched into the binding join at each corner a few stitches and then back stitched, pivoted in the next direction and .

It seems to make it a little flatter.

Pretty pleased with how this turned out.

Word Mini Quilt

 

Time for me to make another small quilt for the SBAMQG MiniQuilt Challenge. 

The challenge this time is "Words" so of course I thought of my favorite word fabric that I was using in the Ring blocks I was making a couple years ago. I had bought enough extra to spare a bit for this project.

I unearthed a baggie with the green leftover pieced triangles from making the Jawbreaker pillow and thought it would go together very well with the green word fabric.

I couldn't help but notice the perfectly highlighted word definitions on the seam allowances.

It really was cracking me up, how perfectly it worked out on so many of the seams.

I had to document it as it was soon going to disappear once this got quilted.

Definition of a needle.

There were a few near duplicates of the pieced triangles but I like the repetition in the overall design.

These really go together easily using the Hex-n-More ruler.

As I was cutting the triangles out, I made sure that the words were rightside up on either long edge of this so that the people on one side of the table can read the triangle's worth of words that is closest to them.

Here's how it looks all pieced together. Yes, another table runner has magically appeared...

Definitely needed a border, so it was back to the Tula Pink bin.

I got this quilted very very  quickly, just straight-line, nothing exciting.

 I think that it looks good and all the stitching will hold it together through many machine washes.

Now to got sew on the green binding to finish it before the meeting tonight!

Trinket Supplies

As I posted about previously, I"m doing the Trinket Sew A Long in April, and I needed a little more variety in the Alison Glass fabrics I was going to be using. There were several curated bundles on offer from various quilt shops and I ended up buying the 32 piece fat 1/8th bundle from Pink Door Fabrics. 

I'm very pleased with the variety of prints in the bundle. 

There are selections from several of Alison Glass's collections which are all so different from each other when you look more closely at them. I didn't realize she had a fabric design called Trinket which has the little symbols we'll be piecing. I guess I'm not a very thorough Alison Glass fangirl.

But they all use very similar colors so they all play very well together.

I also ordered some of the SunPrints range along with some solids from SF Bay Quilts.

The two peppered cottons are in Cheddar and Green Tea, and the FQ on the right was a freebie that they throw in. (Isn't that a nice touch?!)

This is the random palette I was assigned for a mini quilt that's due in early April for SBAMQG, they're all Kona colors, but I don't have to use all of them in the quilt. The color names are yummy aren't they?: Geranium, Lipstick, Gumdrop, Turquoise, Deep Blue. I like these colors and think I will make it a size and shape that will fit well on my dining table and use it as a table runner.

Here's how the SF Bay Quilts and the Pink Door fabrics stack up together, I really think it's gonna work for the Trinket quilt! I still need to decide on which version I'm doing and thus which and how much of a background fabric I'll need though. 

But, I can't start in on anything yet because I need to wash it all, and we're on day 6 of no hot water, sigh. Our hot water heater went kaput and is getting replaced on Wednesday. Guess what I'll be washing first (after myself of course)?
 

With Vitality and Enthusiasm

 

And done, all Energized. And submitted. It ended up at the bare minimum size after all the stitching, 10"x10" 

This was fun and I'm glad I got to work with these nice fabrics.