2011-03-18

Lily's Quilts QAL - charm pack adventure

The cutting has began! / Rozpoczęło się wycinanie!

As I'm using a charm pack instead of a layer cake, I've cut the leaves only for one dresden first, to check how it will go.
As you can see:

I have 24 leaves and not 21 in my circle.
The leaves are half the size of the original template, but I used standard 1/4" seam allowance, so after sewing all 21 leaves together I discovered that I couldn't form a circle without adding 3 more.
Mmm, at least I hope it was not the result of my stiches being so inacurate.
I'm quite pleased with the result (I wasn't going to use the black but I think it makes the circle more interesting).
Now I need help with changing the size of the remaining templates :)

Alternatively I think I could try to sew everything at 1/8" seam allowance... (with my not so very acurate stiches... ouch...)

What do you think?

2011-03-13

Hexagon Park WIP

Work in progress / Prace trwają:


Check out my cool designing... curtain ;)

Lily's Quilts Quilt Along

As I'm still a new in the quilting world, I could start almost every post with "this is the first time..."
So, as you can imagine, this is the first time I'm joining a quilt along -  Lily's Quilts QAL .
I can't wait :)

Jako, że jestem jeszcze nowa w tym patchworkowym świecie, właściwie każdego posta mogłabym zaczynać od "po raz pierwszy..." Więc jak się można domyślić, po raz pierwszy będę brała udział w wirtualnym wspólnym szyciu. Lily's Quilts QAL. Już się nie mogę doczekać.

And here is my choice of fabrics for it / A taką paczkę materiałów wybrałam do tego:

(since I'll be using a charm pack instead of a layer cake my quilt is going to be much smaller than the original, but then I have half of another charm pack of this java beauty, so if I'm any good at it I would be able to add a few more blocks)