I am finally sewing the new quilt! The cuteness begins.
Today I sewed 6 squares and cut up 4. I couldn't find my blue fabric pencil, just a white one, so I started with the darkest fabrics. As a result, the blending of the three full pinwheels in the second image below doesn't look very interesting - if you zoom in, you can hopefully tell that the two purple fabrics are quite different, to get a sense of how they'll interlock. It will look better once I have more distinct fabrics to pick from. :)
The sewing is super easy when both fabrics are a square*. However, not all of the fabrics I cut from had enough to make a full 10" x 10" block, so some are rectangles - 5" x 10". Should I pair those together (as much as possible) or specifically not pair them together, so there's at least one square to work from? I think the former, but some experimentation will reveal all.
*The seams are short enough and predictable enough that I was also able to free up 3-4 bobbins that only had a little bit of thread left (but too much to just throw away); will be nice to have some fresh starts there!
I've also left out the white fabrics that I washed and (somewhat) ironed - I need to do some math for the garden quilt to see how many white hexagons are required, and then cut them out before folding everything back up. So many fun things to do!
- Catherine
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