July 20 Blocks

Making Bull's Eye blocks to go with the string blocks that I made for Roll Roll Cotton Boll.

"Port and Starboard" block for Civil War History.

Block for "Hop To It" from Edyta Sitar's book.

More Hot Weather Sewing

I've been flitting among several projects lately - I got out two today that have been WIPs for a while:

Making a Hop To It block, the last time I made a block was in August of 2011! I'm doing these with fusible; Edyta Sitar says that is her favorite method. It is faster and if I have any hope of finishing this some day I need faster. The other Edyta Sitar pattern I'm doing (Applique Affair) is needle turn - that one is my  "slow quilting" project.

Not a good photo, but here is a Farmer's Wife block "Calico Puzzle".

I'm also making good progress on a Bulls Eye quilt that I started a few days ago. Photos and details on that later.

Hop To It block #3

I'm doing the "Hop To It" quilt from Edyta Sitar's book, as a block-of-the-month from Peace N Applique shop in Rochester. I decided to do the fusible method by machine (the author says it is her favorite method)since I am doing her "Applique Affair" blocks by hand. I'm using Lite Steam a Seam II and a tiny zig-zag stitch with some matching 60 wt. thread and some monofilement. I'm having trouble with the edges fraying - maybe I'm not fusing it long enough? As it is I'm not very happy with it; and am thinking about switching to gluing or basting over freezer paper templates and stitching by machine or hand for the next block.