Super Summer Snippy Challenge - Part Seven (that should be Part 8)

Our Summer on the West Coast of Canada has taken a break from hot and sun and dry...

So, the weather is perfect to sew up in my second storey sewing room, especially because I did a bit of clean up yesterday. The clean room made it even easier to put together another quilt top for my summer sewing project!

This morning I put together this lap size quilt top -- great size for a childs bed or as a throw to cover up the feets on a cool evening while watching tv.  This quilt took me about 4 hours to sew all together from start to finish,

The Statistics of this quilt are:

96 - 3.5 inch squares
sewn into  8 strips of 12 squares that measure 36.5 inches in length

Yardage needed for the strips between the pieced square strips is 1.25 yards or about 1.2 meters of fabric that is 43 or 44 inches wide.  Cut 10 strips from the yardage that is 3.5 inches wide and the width of the fabric  --  Make sure before cutting that the yardage is squared up and that your cut is perfectly straight.  If your strips are not straight, it will cause puckering and uneven 'waves' and make piecing difficult.

 Attention to detail is necessary on this little quilt.  It looks simple but you also need to make sure that when you are piecing the strips together that you do not stretch or bunch up the pieced or the straight strip.

 A tip to help keep all those pieced strips in line is to mark the plain strip every 6 inches so that every second seam of the pieced squares will line up to your 6 inch mark.

Also, if your yardage is limited it may be to your advantage to piece together in one long length all 10 strips, especially if the fabric you are using is a small print or a print where it does not easily show the joins, then cut the strips each to 36.5 inches so the perfectly match the pieced sections.  You will actually need 9 strips that are 36.5 inches and there will be enough to cut the two side strips with about 10 inches left over...  That is cutting it pretty fine, eh?

So, all told this little quilt measures 42.5 inches wide and 51.5 inches long.

I am thinking of doing a second quilt just like this one, except the yardage strip fabric I have is a lime green...   Not definate on that, though.

I still have many many of those 3.5 inch squares, so I may have to make one or two that is completely 3.5 inch squares...  Perhaps some sorting of the fabric squares to do a bit of a study of Value. -- Placing light, medium, and dark fabrics in an orderly fashion to perhaps create a pattern or shapes.

Well, now, looks like we have some more rain coming -- means more working time, I think!