Hello! Thanks for the warm welcome to the site. I have enjoyed admiring your work! I am a little shy about showing this, but I desperately need assistance!
This is (will be!) made of my friend's little girl's play clothes. I would not touch anything "nice" with scissors! I really started it last year, got bogged down/discouraged. Now I'm taking it up again and I'm determined now to finish it!
As just about everything was knit fabric, I used a lightweight fusible interfacing ironed on the back before cutting the triangles and square centers.
After laying the pieces out I then cut squares from an old sheet to sew the pieces to. I sewed up about five "squares"--ha! They are not really square. I stopped when I didn't know what to do. Over the months, the pieces and the blocks got a bit rearranged, so I've been working them back into a somewhat pleasing pattern.
I'm attaching a picture of the inspiration photo, the quilt pieces as they are now and a photo of a block. The squares are roughly 8 inches. I have enough for a quilt that is five squares long and four wide. Is this bad? I want it to be bigger than this (though I don't have a size in mind) so I am planning on adding sashing,...unless someone has a better idea! I am wide open to ideas.
How should I proceed? I'm sure if I can get the blocks a little more uniform it will make things easier.
Let me say that I am an absolute beginner, so you cannot offend me--just assume I don't know anything LOL! I appreciate any comments so very much.
Molly
The Inspiration Photo- Baby Craze by Terry Starke
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The Current State of the Quilt
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A Block that has been sewn to a square of plain fabric
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