Shamrock Table Topper Finish

Well it took me more than half an hour to rip out the mess I made on my Shamrock Table Topper yesterday.  I then quilted some diagonal lines and bound it with one of the fabrics already used in the block.  I'll do some playing with the ruler foot and templates on some scrap fabric another day.

To continue my theme of Table Toppers/Table Runners being double sided to get more use out of them, I made a Swoon block for the back using the same fabric as the binding and one additional complimentary fabric.

I picked my daughter up from work and brought her home and we did some sewing and discussing of whether we want borders on the Storm at Sea Quilt or whether we want to add more Storm at Sea blocks to make it Queen size.  We will decide once we have the blocks made so far all sewn together in one piece.

Updated 2017-03-10 - Linked to Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish It Up Friday.

Storm at Sea Update and Shamrock Table Topper

Here is the Storm at Sea sewn together in vertical rows.  I do not use pins if I can avoid them, but I pin matched all the centre points on these rows and it worked very nicely.

Here is a close up to show that no points have been cut off.

This afternoon, my daughter tactfully pointed out that this quilt is a project we are supposed to be doing together and I admitted I have gotten excited about it and barged ahead and done most of it. She is coming over tomorrow evening and we will work on it together.

I then decided to work on my Shamrock Table Topper.  I have a new ruler foot and set of rulers so decided to use some of them on my DSM (domestic sewing machine) and play at quilting the Shamrock.  I did not expect to be perfect.....  However, I also did not expect to be SO BAD!!!!!  Here is a picture of the mess I made and the tools I used to accomplish it!

This shall be ripped out immediately!  Some of the stitches are very large, but others are very tiny.....  OUCH!  It even hurts my eyes!

Storm at Sea Update and a start on a Shamrock Table Topper

Another colour was added to the Storm at Sea Quilt which means 11 diagonal rows have been completed.  I really like the fabric in these two new rows!

Because it's March 1st, I thought I would work on something for Saint Patrick's Day.  I string pieced a block which was 18" by 12". I used cheap Christmas wrapping paper which is like news print as my base.

I then cut out three 6" by 12" strips which were each then sub-cut into a 3" strip and a 8.5" strip.

I then added 2" snowball corners to the adjacent wide ends of the 6" by 3" strip and two adjacent narrow ends of the 6 x 8.5" strips.  I also cut out 3" by 3" squares to complete the corners.

I then cut out a 6" square of background fabric and a 1.5 strip of one of the green fabrics and cut the square diagonally and inserted the strip and trimmed it back to 6".  I then cut out a 6" x 3" and a 8.5" x 3" strip of background to make an 8.5" square to attach to the three 8.5" shamrock leaf squares.

And voila, a shamrock block.

Not bad for using some green scraps and a bit of background fabric. The block is currently 16" square but I will likely put a border of background fabric around it before I quilt it.