Week 3 - Around The Lake Sew Along
Apr 4, 2022 - 8:40pm
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Welcome to Week 3 of Around The Lake Sew Along.
Now that we have finished all our cutting it's time to get our machines out and start sewing.
I am very much a person who likes to completely finish each stage before moving onto the next. What's your sewing style? One block at a time or chain piece each stage?
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FLYING GEESE UNITS:
This week we are going to be making the Flying Geese Units.
I decided to make these units using squares and rectangles. It's much easier than sewing with triangles and lessens the risk of the block being skewed.
The bonus with this method is you get a bunch of half square triangles to play with. I made a whole new set of cushions for my lounge room but more about that later.
I like to sew on the F square on first.
Place the D rectangle right side up then place your F square on top so the right sides are together. The lines you marked the back of the F square should be visable.
Sew on both the drawn lines.
Grab your rotary cutter and cut through the middle of your sewing lines.
To help the block sit flat, press towards the F square.
With the bonus blocks I pressed towards the dark fabric. I then trimmed these to 3" square.
Repeat the process for the C square.
Please note: I sewed both sewing lines for the purpose of this tutorial but I didn't sew the rest of them, becuase that would just be sewing two of the same fabrics together to make a square. A bit of a waste of time don't you think? I ended up matching these two triangle off cuts with some background fabric to make more Half Square Triangles.
Cut though the middle as before.
Press this seam toward the C square and your're done!
Repeat for the rest of the Flying Geese Units.
Now I wanted to share with you my plans for my Half Square Triangles.
I made the large thow size and ended up with 12 Half Square Triangles for each of the 25 fabrics.
Then a grabbed some of the leftover fabric and made 4 more, making a total of 16 Half Square Triangles from each fabric.
My plan is to sew them together in blocks and sash them like the mock up below. I'm not sure of the layout but I'll work that out once the blocks are completed.
I have some friend's getting married in May and I'm hoping to get it finished in time!
With the original quilt I used all the Half Square Triangles to make new cushions for our lounge room.
Don't worry, we don't have them on the couch like this, it was just a good way to photograph them all together.
I shared the different layouts I used for these in the pattern, but there also so many other options.
So that's it for this week.
Next week we will be tackling the Drunkard's Path Rectangle Units.
I have made a video with all my tips and I can't wait to share it with you next week.
Happy Patching,
Emma
Apr 15, 2022 - 12:41am
kim kernohan:i am like you like to do each stage . thanks for the info i have fabric set a side to do two more quilts after this one. As you said it has so many design options based on fabric placement.
Thanks so much Kim!
