Great Granny Squared #3 - Last Blocks Completed

I have finally completed all of my little great granny square blocks.  They where so much fun to make, but it got a lot trickier as I was getting closer to finishing them.  Deciding which fabrics, colour and prints would work well together is not my strong suite, but I think when placing all of the blocks together they really work well.  

It is really hard picking a favourite, I love them all!

I cant wait to see this little quilt stitched together and quilted.  It is going to look so cute!

If you'd like to see all of the blocks I made you can find them here and here.

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Great Granny Squared #2 - Sorting Scraps

A couple of weeks ago I started up a Great Granny Squared table runner and in the process of digging  through all of my scraps I realized that if I want to be in charge of this project I needed to take charge.  

My scraps was a total mess, scattered between three bins, large, small and odd shapes of fabric.

That was when I decided to start sorting them before I would carry on with my quilt.  I sorted them according to size, larger fold-able pieces, strips, squares and larger pieces.  Now digging through my scraps is much easier.  At least now I have a clear idea of what I have to work with, and this way NOTHING will go to waste.

I bought some small clear plastic containers and labeled them accordingly.

Once I had all of my scraps sorted I stared piecing up a few more blocks.

This is going to be a fun and colourful little quilt!

To see the other blocks I have finished so far, click HERE.

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Great Granny Squared #1

I recently purchased both 'Great Granny Squared' and 'Quilty Fun' by Lori Holt from Bee In My Bonnit.  I was completely drawn to the fun, bright and cute designs I've seen on Instagram.  It was hard to decide which pattern from both books I wanted to start with, but chose to start with one of her Great Granny Squared table runners.

So, after cutting all of the background fabric pieces I was ready to start.  I am not working with a direct plan for each block, I just grab some pieces of fabric that I think will go together, cut what I need and start piecing them together.  

For some time I had no idea what I was going to do with all of my fabric scraps that I've accumulated over the past few years, so at least now I will be able to make good use of them.  For the time being I have finished 5, 6½ blocks.

...I will share more blocks as I've finished them.

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Purple Diamond

I named this quilt Pers Diamant translating Purple Diamond.  

I had so much fun making this quilt.  It measures 55½ by 77½ inches.

I started out by making a few mistakes with the fabric placement, you can read up on it here.  At first I tried random colour fabrics to make the block, but it just looked too busy, and it had no real structure, so I went back and changed it to the way it should have been, which turned out much better and much prettier, this post clearly shows the difference.

So instead of placing the blocks exactly alike next to each other, I rotated them, and it made the green diamonds look different from each other.

This is my personal best at piecing, my corners matched up close to perfect.  Clearly using a ¼ inch foot makes the world of difference when piecing your quilt.

I made my own stencil to quilt the inside blocks, using transparency paper.  I drew out the design with a marker, and used my husbands soldering iron and lightly touched the paper to burn out the design.  It worked out great.  

  

Here is a useful link that I've posted a few days ago to hand baste your quilt, the same method I used the baste his quilt.  And I'm happy to say I have not one single pleat or pucker at the back of my quilt.

Take care.

Happy quilting.

Diamond block, -the way its intended UPDATE

If you go back to my previous post "Diamond block -the way its intended" you'll see what a mess I've made of a block which should be so simple.  I completely went at it all wrong, and I'm so glad I went back to change it.

Here is a sneak peak of my quilt.  I've finished basting it this afternoon, and I will start quilting tomorrow.

Happy quilting

Diamond Block, -the way its intended

A couple of days ago I posted that I needed help with a quilt I was planning, you can read up on it here.  

HUGE FLOP..

But  when I looked closely to my original block (right), I realized it didn't look one bit like the one I intended on making in the first place.  Why would I want to complicate something that is already done, and which I liked enough to make.

Diamond HST Block

Because of silly pour planning, I started out all wrong, so after looking at the block (left) again, and comparing it with mine, I noticed that my purple block did not even 'match' the one shown in the picture.  So I drew out the block on a piece of paper, numbering the fabric, and went from there.  I should have done it in the first place, as the tutorial called for 4 different types of fabric, I wanted it like the picture, using 9.

Now the center block, is purple all round with the green around it.  Exactly the way it should have been.  At least now, the block makes sense, right?

After I was happy with the result I carried on piecing all the little half square triangles.  I've linked up the video tutorial I used to make them at the end of this post, be sure to check it out, it's very simple to do.

So after cutting, piecing and pressing the seems open, which comes to a total of 160 small half square blocks (excluding the 2 finished blocks I already made) I decided to carry on tomorrow.

Happy quilting.