As usual, I will start with the photos that I have received from last week's blocks. I only have Marian's blocks so we will start with her Spool Block:
Then we did the Friendship Star block:
Last, we did up the Contrary Wife block:
Lovely!
I can't believe that summer is almost over. Both kids have had a great and busy summer with some camping time, a week with Nana, a variety of daycamps and bunches of downtime to just relax. There has been Tae Kwon Do camp, swim lesson camps, art camp, cooking camp and bike camp between the two kids. Rhylee grew enough to require a new bike and got good enough at biking that we took him to get a new bike. Turns out that he went from needing a child bike to needing a "young adult" bike. He ended up needing a 14.5" frame. MY bike frame is only 16"! We have a tall leggy little man.
Brianna is getting to be such a big girl too. She lost her first two teeth almost a year ago. They were the bottom two centre teeth. She just lost her first top centre tooth, the second one is loose and there is another "wiggler" on the bottom. She is a leggy girl too and all smiles - even if they are a bit goofy!
In a week and a half Brianna will turn seven and on the same day she will start grade TWO. Rhylee will start grade FIVE on the same day. How on earth did so much time pass that we have an almost seven year old entering grade two and a nine and a half year old entering grade five? Our kids are getting so big and they make us so happy.
All right, enough of the mushy stuff and on to the actual quilting part. This week we will sew up two blocks but if you did up last weeks blocks then you shouldn't have any problems with this week's blocks since they are essentially the same blocks. Different colours, different orientation but otherwise things really are pretty much the same.
Our first block this week will be Block #81 - Snowball.
Cut two 3" by 3" yellow squares and two 3" by 3" purple squares.
Cut one 2 1/2" yellow squares and four 2 1/2" by 2 1/2" purple squares.
Place one 3" yellow square RST with one 3" purple square. Pin on the diagonal. Draw a line diagonally on the wrong side of the lighter fabric. Sew a seam 1/4" from the line you have just drawn an then sew a seam on the other side of the line you drew. Then place your ruler along the line you drew and slice the two HSTs apart. Set the seam and press to one side. Place the other 3" yellow square RST with the remaining purple 3" square and repeat the HST process. Trim your HSTs to 2 1/2" squares. You should now have four purple/yellow HSTs that measure 2 1/2", one yellow 2 1/2" square and four purple 2 1/2" squares. Get your pieces organized RSU the way you want them to look.
Flip square 2 RST onto square 3 and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward square 3. Flip square 5 RST onto square 6 and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward square 5. Flip square 8 RST onto square 9 and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward square 9. Flip square 1 RST onto square 4 and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward square 4.
Now flip square 7 RST onto square 4 and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward square 4. Flip the 2/3 set RST onto the 5/6 set, nest the seams neatly and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward the 2/3 set. Flip the 8/9 set RST onto the 5/6 set, nest the seams nearly and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward the 8/9 set. Flip the 1/4/7 set RST on the 2/5/8 piece, nest eh seams neatly and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press to one side and the first block is finished.
Our second block this week will be Block #16 - Calico Puzzle.
Cut two 3" by 3" pink squares and two 3" by 3" blue squares.Cut one 2 1/2" pink square and four 2 1/2" by 2 1/2" grey squares.
Place one 3" pink square RST with one 3" blue square. Pin on the diagonal. Draw a line diagonally on the wrong side of the lighter fabric. Sew a seam 1/4" from the line you have just drawn an then sew a seam on the other side of the line you drew. Then place your ruler along the line you drew and slice the two HSTs apart. Set the seam and press to one side. Place the other 3" pink square RST with the remaining blue 3" square and repeat the HST process. Trim your HSTs to 2 1/2" squares. You should now have four pink/blue HSTs that measure 2 1/2", one pink 2 1/2" square and four grey 2 1/2" squares. Get your pieces organized RSU the way you want them to look.
Flip square 2 RST onto square 3 and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward square 3. Flip square 5 RST onto square 6 and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward square 5. Flip square 8 RST onto square 9 and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward square 9. Flip square 1 RST onto square 4 and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward square 4.
Now flip square 7 RST onto square 4 and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward square 4. Flip the 2/3 set RST onto the 5/6 set, nest the seams neatly and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward the 2/3 set. Flip the 8/9 set RST onto the 5/6 set, nest the seams nearly and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press toward the 8/9 set. Flip the 1/4/7 set RST on the 2/5/8 piece, nest the seams neatly and sew a 1/4" seam. Set the seam and press to one side.
That's our second block finished and we are done for this week! Next week will again be very similar but there will be some slight variations that will make the blocks different than the last couple of weeks!
Have fun and I'll see you next week.
Tara
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