Category: Quilting

Modern QAL – February Block

 

It’s February – oh wait, no it’s April!

It’s about time I caught up with posting my blocks for the Modern QAL, since this is the last month before putting all the blocks together!

February’s block was called Parisian Star, and like all the blocks comes from this book:

Here is my finished block:

 

You can see all the other blocks that people have made over on And Sew We Craft 🙂

 

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Modern QAL – January Block

 

It’s January! And there’s only four months of the Modern Blocks QAL left!

So everyone who knows me will know that I can’t possibly have made made my block this month. Living in a house with no table/chair/desk and with my sewing machine and all my fabric in a box ready to start its 10,000 mile journey to a new home I’d need some superhuman powers to have made it in the last two days!!

But when I made last month’s block, suspecting that this might be a possibility, I got ahead. So actually I made all the rest of my blocks, since there was only four, which is cheating a little bit, but now I can still link up when everyone else does – yay!

All of the blocks for the QAL come from this book:

 

This month’s block is called Everything Equal, and Alyce’s tutorial can be found on Blossom Heart Quilts’ blog.

I looked at all the colours in the fabric I’m using for my blocks, and couldn’t resist making it a rainbow!

I think it looks really pretty!

 

You can see all the other blocks that people have made over on And Sew We Craft 🙂

 

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Christmas Table Runner

This is one of my Christmas present makes, which I can show now because it has arrived (posted in Australia Monday, arrived in England Friday – post is doing well this year!) and I gave instructions to open on arrival so it would get more use.

I made a Christmas table runner! It is made from 4.5 inch squares using a variety of Christmassy fabrics, including some Christmas koalas and kangaroos! I quilted it using a wiggly stippling pattern.

It’s the first time I have used free motion quilting on something I have made. I watched some of this Craftsy course to learn how to work systematically and try to get the stitches of even length. I learnt some basic stippling designs that I repeated over and over.

Online Quilting Class

You can see the pattern more clearly on the back. It’s not completely even all the way across – I started at the end where it’s closer together, but for a first try I think it’s pretty good! I bound it using red cotton and hand stitched the binding onto the back. The tutorials that say that is quick and easy lie! But is does look good once it’s finished.

I’m really pleased with my finished table runner, and it’s now sitting on my Mum’s dining table 🙂
I’m linking this project up for Sew Cute Tuesday on Blossom Heart Quilts.
Sew Cute Tuesday

 

 

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Modern QAL – December Block

This month is month 8 of the Modern Blocks QAL!

The block this month is called Crosswalk. The tutorial for it can be found on Actually Amy’s blog.

I chose just two colours of the fabric I’m using to make this block – purple and orange, with the plain around the corners.

Here is my finished block:

All of the blocks for the QAL come from this book:

You can see all the other blocks people have made over on And Sew We Craft.

 

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Modern QAL – November Block

 

I was eager not to leave this month’s block until the last minute, and have managed to complete it early on 🙂

This month’s block is called Pogo Stick. The tutorial for it can be found over on the Sew Delicious blog.

My version is a quite colourful, with more than one fabric. I read the information about the block in the Modern Blocks book:

and in there it suggests placement for different coloured fabrics. I thought that the block would fit in better with the others I have made if it used more than one colour.

Here is my finished block:

You can see all the other blocks people have made over on And Sew We Craft.

 

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Easy As ABC QAL: Catch-Up

Easy As ABC QAL

 

It’s been a big catch-up month for me this month. Instead of five letters for the Easy As ABC QAL, I’ve done twelve! But it means that I’ve now caught up and have completed all the letters from A to T 🙂

F:

G:

H:

I:

J:

L:

N:

P:

Q:

R:

S:

T:

You can see the other blocks that people have made this month over on Blossom Heart Quilts.

There’s only two more months of letters to go!

Modern QAL – October Block

 

It’s now six months into the Modern Blocks Quilt Along – halfway! Only six more blocks to go!

Here are all my blocks so far:

May – Follow the Leader:

June – Spool:

July – Megan’s Star:

August – Quatrefoil:

September – Escalator:

October – Best Friends:The October block is the one I have just finished. It was a nice quick one to put together.

I’ve been looking forward in the book to see what other blocks are coming up.

I’ve been thinking about which colours to keep for which blocks – they’re going to look pretty 🙂

Here are all the blocks so far together. You can see everyone else’s and vote for your favourites over on And Sew We Craft.

 

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Modern QAL – August Block

I’m catching up this month with the August quilt blocks I missed.

First up is this block for the Modern Blocks Quilt Along from And Sew We Craft, a twelve month quilt along of blocks taken from this book:

The August block was called Quatrefoil.

I looked through the different colours I had in the spotty fabric and picked out the ones I had used least often in the previous blocks, so that when all twelve are complete they’ll be evenly spread across the quilt.

Here is my finished block:

 

 

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