Graph Paper Quilt Along 2

After some frustration with my Whole cloth quilt, I spent some time earlier in the week to cut up a whole lot of country fabric and got a bit excited...it actually did make a dent in the stash.

Using up my stash

Love this dandelion fabric

I left them sorted into their colours, put them in little zipper bags, and with a quilt diagram next to the sewing machine started to sew the squares together. So relaxing and calming...just quietly following the quilt diagram.

Making a start

See that little tool next to the quilt diagram...this is my finger pressing helper. As I went through, I pressed the seams with this gadget, so that I did not have to get up at all. I chain pieced my squares together ...squares of several rows at a time, stopped, then put sections of individual rows together, then the row and so forth.

Not getting up to press the seams with the iron made this a very quick process. As I went along I marked any changes in fabric on my quilt diagram to avoid confusion as I sometimes did not have enough pieces to complete the plus (was not quite that organised in cutting up my stash).


Finished it today

Very happy with the outcome. Just need to sew the rows together now. The quilt will measure about 49" x 55" if I do not attach a border.

Linking up to Anything Goes Monday  over at Stitch by Stitch and the Graph Paper Quilt Along at Fabric Mutt

Until next time

Karin

The Graph Paper Quilt Along

I am joining Heidi's Graph Paper Quilt Along over at the Fabric Mutt.

Could not believe it when I saw it...this is exactly what I had just done...just sewn together some squares as part of my latest obsession of getting rid of some of my overflowing stash.

So I could say that I already have completed a quilt top ...however, I did this before I had even heard about the QA

For this QA I was thinking of using some fabric that I found on the bottom of the stash...not particularly pretty, but obviously must have bought it for a reason. Then I found the Pig fabric and bingo...a match!

However then I saw the suggestions that Heidi from Fabric Mutt put up last week and I found the perfect project for me.









Spend last week working through some fabric and designing this Plus quilt top using the fabrics in my stash

Have not started cutting yet, as I then got side tracked on some other things and also sported a major migraine. But I have the Accuquilt Go cutter and cutting out the squares will be quick, so I am hoping to catch up by the next link up.

Linking up to the Graph Paper QAL over at Fabric Mutt.

Karin