Welcome to month Ten....(can you believe it's month ten??!) of A Prairie Gathering Quilt of the Quarter. Our quilt sure has grown, and I think we can see the finish line. That always feels so good!
Shoo-fly blocks now take center stage. This is just a sweet, simple little block. I'm very fond of them! So, now we're ready to assemble the Shoo-Fly borders and attach them to the quilt. Really jazzed about that! I recommend sewing one Shoo-Fly block to one plain square. This is to control your pieced border assembly and make sure they measure what they should, so no yucky un-sewing is necessary. The combo of one Shoo-Fly and one plain square should measure 4.5 x 8.5 unfinished. You know the drill by now....that if it doesn't, you have only one seam to unsew rather than a bunch that are suspect and you don't know what is what.
Follow the pattern directions for piecing your Shoo-Fly borders and check those measurements!! Attach to the quilt center, and press. You'll then be attaching another plain border. Looking sssooooo good!
From here, you'll be making more HST's and putting them aside for next month's piecing. Fun stuff coming next month!!
Don't forget to come back on Friday for the next post about my new Pocket Patchwork Sew~Along, Tucker! You'll begin piecing!! Yay! If you're just
finding out about my FREE sew-along called Tucker, click here to get the scoop!
Oh, and I'll be hosting another scrap fabric give-away very soon!
I have my pieces cut for Tucker. Looking forward to continuing. Thanks for all you share with us.
ReplyDeleteThose shoo fly blocks are looking adorable!
ReplyDeleteSuch adorable blocks! Thanks for your blog......
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of scraps, new follower, will be interested to see your mystery!
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