Hello Cuties, I want to tell you this must be the easiest and quickest quilt top I ever cut out and pieced. Goes together so fast!
How fast you ask?
I cut it all out yesterday. Cooked, cleaned kitchen, started sewing, stopped & visited about 3 hours with our son, ate 2 nd meal, cleaned kitchen again🙄, sewed till bedtime. Hubby cooked a soup for us so I could sew today. I finished piecing it together just after lunch.
Now if you have a quicker pattern, send it to me!
It is 40x55 a small child’s quilt, but you could make this any size you wanted.
It is made from a tumbler ruler. However, I did not have one. My friend did so I told her to measure it for me. I drew a 5 inch straight line for the bottom. I found the center and marked a dot on top 5 inches up. I then drew a straight line on top 1 and 1/2 inch from each side of center dot. Then just drew a straight line that will angle from top 3 inch mark to bottom 5 inch mark on both left and right sides.
I was going to cut me a cardboard tumbler pattern, but hubby wanted to try out his new saw. He cut me a ruler out of scrap plexiglass he had. How nice was he!
That’s the pattern. You just have to pair your colors up and lay them all out for the size you want before you start sewing.
When you sew you will be sewing top to bottom rows, NOT side to side. I start at top side and pin one to another all the way to bottom. - look at left side - pin the white with blue Star to the blue wave placing the white top side of tumbler to the bottom blue tumbler-see photo -then pin blue wave to stripe fabric, opposite sides together, always placing top side of one tumbler to bottom side of the other tumbler.
I pin each row all the way from top to bottom at one tome then take to machine. That’s how you sew. Your rows will be long and narrow from top to bottom. Then after all pieces are sewn into rows, just sew your long rows together again from top to bottom.
Be sure you keep your pieces in correct order so your pairs will match. You will always have a half pair (one tumbler with no match) at the sides on either end. See my very top row across from side to side has the white on left edge and the next row across has a stripe on right side edge.
I hope you understand. If you piece then I know you do. If this is your first time, it’s all just straight sewing.
I do have to trim my top and bottom edge, of the finished quilt top, straight. I might wait to do that after I quilt it though.
I hope you like this quilt top. I probably will quilt in waves or my usual free motion stipple. I’ll let you know when I do. I’m trying to get a few tops made so then I can quilt all of them at once.
The fabrics are an older collection from Moda called Bartholdi-Meow’s Reef. It was sent to me from an online acquaintance for me to make children’s quilts. She kept it so long now had no little ones to sew for. She had two fat quarter bundles just alike and she sent me both! She said to make my grandchildren or my charity quilts with it. This one is for CASA. I think she will be pleased to see I’ve started using it.
Hope you have a nice day or night wherever you are. Please pray for Ukraine and it’s people. ❤️Toogie
Thanks as ever for sharing your work I love seeing what your creating.
Now when it comes to other things, speed is not my strong suit. 😃 a walk sounds nice
Yes we could play if we were closer.
I’d love to see your work.