Cross Cut

Cut and stitched the piece from my last post HERE.
Just needs quilting.

This is a tutorial from Debbie at A Quilters Table, and in her sidebar she has two posts -
Cross Cut showing 1 and Cross Cut showing 2, do go and check these out there are
some beauties!!

Lessons learned from making this:

1. when sewing the cut up sections
make sure you keep them in the orientation intended!
Botton left - this block should have been placed with the arm on the
right of the block pointing upwards towards
the block above, the corner would then have been better balanced.

2. next time I would make more  original blocks to
give myself a few more options and possibly use
lightly patterned fabrics for the background.

A larger one is definitely on my
agenda, the one above is 22" square and as a practice
piece I'm happy with it, great fun to play with.

The latest Kaffe Fassett book arrived in the book shop
late last week, wonderful photographs of the quilts
on location in Italy and a few are earmarked as possibles!
Now I'm waiting for the next book "Blooms"which
should be out next month.
Methinks I may need extra shelf space!!

Enjoy the week, I now need to decide which project/projects need
my attention for my week!

Something New

I have, like many others, lots of projects on the go and

all of them need my time.

Today was set aside to work on Gypsy Wife but over breakfast

I was thinking of a quilt seen a few weeks ago on

a blog I follow, this blogger has a great tutorial.

Breakfast over, no Gypsy Wife blocks being cut but

this Cross Cut piece was!

Below is the first stage, this is just a practice piece, and the

second stage will come tomorrow. I'll wait until tomorrow

before giving the link to the tutorial.

I have a feeling that this photo is going to be a bit fuzzy, sorry about that but it's

early evening already here and the light is going.

Two pins are in place where seams meet, or

rather don't meet, and I'll work on those later,

or as it's a practice piece I could just go with the flow and

leave as is.

Measure twice and cut once is a saying I should have

taken more notice of.