NOTE: If you are just now hearing about the Spring on Bleecker Street Sew-Along, and would like to find out more, click HERE.
Before we get started with Part 2, let’s just sit and relax and enjoy the different versions of Part 1 (posted here) sent in by you all!
Here is mine – using Quilting Treasures’ Bleecker Street fabric group! Click here to view fabrics. If you are new and wondering about the quilt kits, click here for information.
Here is Alice’s. She blogs at http://aliceinquilterland.blogspot.com if you would like to visit her and make a new quilting friend. You can also see Alice moved on beyond the first part – which is absolutely wonderful!
Here is Gail’s. I love the 30’s fabric choices.
This is Sharon’s – she has creatively turned her part 1 into a mini — Loving this idea!
This is Debby’s with a kitty to welcome the guests – this is Debby’s first time joining in a sew-along! I am so happy to hear that, and am proud of her!
This is Kathy’s – Kathy is a dear friend of mine, and I love her dearly!
This is Jennifer’s – she is using Japanese neutrals for a completely different feel!
This is Cheryl’s. A polka dotted roof — what is not to love?!
This is Margaret’s. I am loving her blue roof!
And I told Joyce it’s okay to turn in late homework!!!! Even though Joyce didn’t share her block, she did share her fabrics. I was hoping someone would do a monochromatic color scheme with this quilt — and Joyce apparently read my mind, somehow. :) These fabrics are from Penny Rose!
I have enjoyed everyone’s version!! I can’t wait to see how your quilt unfold as we sew along. I have to say I am VERY happy that you are sewing along. You can send me pictures of your quilt at any stage at any time, and I will just include your pictures in the next posting of Spring on Bleecker Street.
Remember, this is a sew-along for those of us who have more projects we can count, all going on at the same time. :-) So, absolutely no pressure to get things done on time. More importantly, I just want you to enjoy the project.
****** Now, to Part 2!!! Part 2 will take a total of about 2 1/2 hours…. and I have the total time broken down into 3 sections in case you don’t have a block of time that spans 2-3 hours!
The theme of this part is “Keep Calm and Sew On” because we will be sewing with small pieces. The trick in dealing with small pieces is to handle them as if you are handling normal pieces. Keep calm – check your cutting, your machine, and you should come out just fine!
#1. I do starch press my fabrics so that I keep the small pieces as non-distorted as possible.
#2. I also finger press all my seams before heat-setting them.
(image from Secret Stitch Club)
#1. Remaining trees (~35 minutes). As I was saying, I finger-pressed my seams open before trimming off the dog-ears.
Then I used the iron to heat-set the seams open.
When you pin the two pink tree units together before sewing, be sure to match the diagonal seams, and you will have the tree units match up nicely.
I sewed together the pink tree and the yellow tree, and set aside — without sewing on the 4 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ white rectangle.
#2. Sun embroidery on 4 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ white rectangle (~ 1 hr, and that’s with me texting with my best friend). The pattern didn’t show the sun drawing. So, we will just wing it. I first press-starch my rectangle so that it is not wobbly. You would mark the circle for your sun where you would like it as long as you keep in mind where the seam allowance is on that 4 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ rectangle. I marked the circle using the back of an Aurifil thread spool with a fine tip pen.
You can see that instead of triangles in the original design, I used radiating lines for the sun rays. You can do however you choose for the sun rays. I will be using the yellow from my Marmalade Meadows Floss Pack to stitch the sun! I normally use a John James size 9 embroidery needle for embroidery stitches, stitching with 2-ply of floss.
If you would like to order the floss pack(s), Cinnamon Quilt Shopped has them here.
And you might have seen a pillow ornament I recently completed with the colors in the floss pack, and some fabric scraps.
Back to our sew-along, here is my sun stitched out, and pieced to the tree units. I hope you can see that I actually stitched around the sun circle twice, stacking my back stitches. I have never done it that way, and I quite like the effects.
And the newly completed section is sewn to Part 1.
#3. Pinwheels (~45 minutes). So, I looked at the quilt layout, and felt like I didn’t want to have to make a whole bunch of pinwheels all at one go later on. I went ahead and made the 4 pinwheels needed for the yellow fabric. I used the method here to make accurate and squared up pinwheels. Give the method a try – you might be as happy as the result as I am! :)
I plan to make a few of these pinwheels to go with each section until I have all of them made.
And that’s it for Part 2! I hope you will have a blast making progress on this quilt as much as I have! Can’t wait to see what your Part 2 looks like!!!!
Happy Sewing, my sewing friends!! Hugs to you all.
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