Simple Simon Progress

It looks like I will not meet my One Monthly Goal of completing this top this month. The little girls popped in yesterday for lunch with pizza in hand and begged to sleep over but no one had an overnight bag. Well! They all showed up later with over night bags and Chinese take out for supper. So that was the end of sewing for now. The two little ones were up early and helped Grampa in the barn and the older one slept in and had to be wakened for breakfast. Right now they are on a computer time out so two are in the kitchen painting and the youngest is in the quilt room gluing scraps of fabric to a piece of paper.

I got seven blocks sewn together yesterday and spent hours uploading photos.  I first learned how to chain piece and assemble blocks from Eleanor Burns and one of her Quilt in a Day books. That first log cabin quilt took me two years to make. In that time learned how to use a rotary cutter and ruler. Later I got a mat to put under them.
 

• First I laid out the 18 four patch units in order.

•  Flip row 2 back onto row 1

•  starting at the top, bring the first pair to the machine and sew together

• Chain piece all 6 units and sew off onto a scrap of fabric. I started using scraps for leaders and enders at least 15 years ago.

•  Lay the chained pieces back to make sure they are in the correct order.

•  flipping them top side up

•  Flip the last row back onto the middle row

•  Straighten and clip.

•  Chain piece then lay out to make sure all are in the correct order. Each block has different colours in random order. Except the top right and bottom left corners.

•  Next step is to join each row to the next one by flipping them right sides together

•  and clipping then sewing

•  then the next 2 rows

•  until all the rows are connected then press

•  and one more block is pinned to the wall

Twenty-one done and fifteen to go. I made a mistake with my calculations and need to prepare enough four patch units for four more blocks. Tomorrow. Maybe. The little boys will be arriving for a couple of days.

Blessings,
Gramma Kiss