Eleven Days of Tape

 

Here's a series of photos showing each day's work on my Scrap Tape- 100 Days Project. This section didn't get trimmed down.

Lots and lots of batiks left over from making the Swamp Blocks.

Lots of the small piecing being done off the tape first.

Oooh a curve.

Teeny tiny pieces, that I had to make sure didn't end up on the edges of the Scrap Tape.

Lots of my hand-dyed fabric scraps to use.

Hey there's some of the new fabric I bought.

Several of these are weird backing fabrics I've used recently.

These are all un-ironed, just used the seam roller. *note to self* I have to remember to turn off the steam when I do iron it because the Seam Tape is a wash-away product.

I think this is my very favorite one of this group. Probably because of the inclusion of the hand-dyed checked hemp linen.

I guess when I get to the end of 100 days, I'm going to want to make a movie somehow of all these. I'll have to figure out how to continuously unroll it before I chop it all up to make a quilt.

Wedge Quilt Class

 My Studio Assistant and I took a BAMQ class from Christina Camelli about making wedge quilts. He was mesmerized watching people in the class sewing on the iPad screen. 

He was very helpful in making sure I mixed up the color choices as I went to end up with some random variety.

Before the class, I bought a non-slip 9° ruler, which was super helpful when used along with the template provided by Christina. I decided to use fabrics that I wasn't super invested in for the work done in class, just to try out the techniques and not be worried about "wasting" precious fabrics.

I also bought her book on the topic, Wedge Quilt Workshop, which is a great how-to on this type of quilting.  I bought the actual book instead of the kindle version because I wasn't clear on whether the templates were included.

Note to self: My next wedge project will be using this dotted ombre´ fabric.

After getting the wedges cut out, it was all about assembling them in sections and then trimming to make sure the unit measures 45°. How exciting to get to use the 45° lines on my cutting mat for the first time.

 

And then when two units are joined up, the result measures 90°. This helps to make a full 360° circle that hopefully lays flat.

I'm almost done with the circle, and then the fun comes in getting the appliqué of the circle to the background done.

Stitch Happens Finish

 

It's true, Stitch Happens is now finished. I stitched on the binding yesterday. 

I was so glad that I'd made the binding ahead of time, so that I could just get going when I was ready. It makes a lot sense, as long as you have all the fabric out when you're working on the quilt, just make the binding. Reminder to me: Just Make The Binding

I decided to continue with the orange thread I was using for quilting, I think it looks really against that purple.

Tah-dah! All done!

Here's some detail shots showing the binding.

I'm glad that I added that little border of squares around the outside.

My favorite part of the quilt I think.

Love that needle motion.