Week 6 - Around The Lake Sew Along
Apr 4, 2022 - 8:59pm
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Welcome to Week 6 of Around The Lake Sew Along.
This week we are sewing our quilt tops together. This is the quick bit of the quilt!
If you have just joined the sew along, make sure you’ve purchased your copy of the Around The Lake Pattern.
The Around The Lake Sew Along will be taking place on Instagram, so be sure your account is set to public so we can all see your posts using the #aroundthelakeSAL and #aroundthelakequilt hashtags.
You can also join the Private Facebook Group here.
This stage of the quilt is pretty simple. Lay out your quilt blocks. I like to do this on the floor but if I'm really honest I would love a really big design wall but in our current house that's not going to happen. Lucky you if you have one. Anyway back to crawling all over the floor.
Once you have decided on your layout, start to sew the blocks together in rows.
Then sew the rows together.
My only tip is to make sure you iron the seams in each row in alternate directions. This helps the seams nest nicely together.
and Ta Da, a finished quilt top!
I thought I might now share some tips on quilting. I have written them in a previous sew along so you can check them out here.
All three of my Around The Lake quilts have been quilted very differently.
The first was done on a longarm and has a swirly quilting pattern design.
Longarm quilting by Jackie from The Quilt Rookery.
The 2nd quilt was done with horizontal lines. I think this one is my favourite.
I decided to quilt the 3rd version with diagonal cross hatching. How good is that texture!
So that's a wrap on this sew along. Did you have fun? I most definitely did.
Thanks to everyone that joined in the fun, it always brings me so much joy to see the quilts that you make from my patterns.
Stay tuned for the next sew along!
Happy Patching,
Emma
