Sunday, June 7, 2009

Baby Quilt Part II (of III)


FINALLY!  I am going to continue this tutorial that I started way back when for a quick and easy baby quilt.






In that previous post, I showed you how I sewed the 5" squares together to make triangle-squares (half-square triangles, in quilting lingo).  This shot on the right is a close-up of the triangle-squares up on my design wall.  This is the fun part, arranging and re-arranging them to get just the right placement.  






Blocks on the design wall, getting rearranged endlessly!











Now (photo on the right) I've started at the upper left-hand corner of my laid-out squares (on the design wall), and I'm sewing them together in diagonal strips.  (To do this, I take one strip at a time down from the wall, laid one block on top of the next.)  











Here is a photo of the diagonal strips sewn together.  I put them back up on the design wall, as I sew them into strips.

4 comments:

  1. That looks awesome! I wish I could make one like that...and maybe some day I will. but for now Im working simple things and then working my way up to harder things!

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  2. Thanks for the comment, Queenie! (May I call you that?!) I happened by your blog recently and really loved it. Feel free to stop by this way again!

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  3. The Sonoma Coastline quilt is amazing but silly old Blogger wouldn't let me comment on that post.

    My mom lives in Gualala and you captured it perfectly!

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  4. Thanks, BB! I started with a photo that I took, and it (quilt) turned out pretty true to reality.

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