Critter Community Complete....Friday Finish!

This project started with a selection of fabulous fabrics designed by our own {Ohio} fabric designer....Suzy Ultman.  Our little shoppe {Sew To Speak} was fortunate enough to receive a preview bundle of fabric... and then I was fortunate enough to be allowed to take a bit to weave into a project!  So, at the risk of being labeled a One Trick Pony....I made a quilt!

I have blogged about this quilt for the past week or so...my inspiration was an antique quilt - a log cabin on point - made in the 1890's!  Although, I am sure the quilter of the 1890's would be totally perplexed by the term wonky or liberated to describe to her quilt, but that is exactly what she accomplished!!! 

  

Suzy's fabric is so bright and cheerful, I had to pull out my bright spots and ginghams! 

By placing the block on point, I ended up with a pieced square in between the blocks where the four points meet....I love this little square!

For the back I stitched a few cast off corners together and squared them up....just enough to give it a little pop on the back!

It is pick stitched with perle cotton....

And for the binding I used a Riley Blake stripe with dashed lines...love those dashed lines!

This is a small quilt...just about 45" X 45"...perfect size for a wee one!!!

I love it!  But it began with a fantastic inspiration fabric....thanks Suzy Ultman!  We adore you!!!

For today the plan is to do a little hand piecing on my hexagons....

    

And try to stay cool!!!

TGIF!!!

mary

Corner Triangles and Setting Triangles....

My Log Cabin On Point - Critter Community Quilt is pieced and I am hand quilting....but I thought {in case you want to make a log cabin on point of your own} I should post the formula for figuring up those pesky corner triangles and setting triangles....

For the Corner Triangles...I needed to cut a square in half once on the diagonal.  This way my stretchy bias would be on the long edge which was sewn to the 4 corners of my quilt...

to figure out what size you should make the parent square {which will be cut once on the diagonal} follow this formula:

  

1. Take your finished block size X 1.41

2. Divide that answer by 2....and ADD 0.875".....then round up to the nearest 1/8th. inch to find the parent block size

3.  Take the parent square and cut it in half once diagonally to yield two corner triangles.  You will need two parent squares cut once on the diagonal to yield four corner triangles.

I had a 10" finished block size.....so my parent square was 8"

   

Now, along the sides I needed to add Setting Triangles.  For Setting Triangles I needed to take a square and cut it twice diagonally.  This gave me four triangles with the straight of grain along the long edge {which would be my outside edge}. 

To figure the size for the parent square in the Setting Triangles....follow this formula:

1. Take the finished block size X 1.41 and round this answer up to the nearest 1/8"

2. To the  answer in step 1....ADD  1.25 inches....this is the size of your parent square for Setting Triangles

3. Cut a square this size and then cut the square in half twice diagonally.

So for my 10" finished block size....I needed a parent square for my Setting Triangles that was 15 3/8 inches.

Hope this helps if you decide to do a quilt on point!

For today...I am going to try to finish quilting this baby and maybe **fingers crossed** get it bound!

Here is a little peek at the back....I am lovin' the back!!!

Have a great Wednesday!

mary 

Works In Progress....

Hit a bit of a rough spell here with a child under the weather :(  Booo!

But plugging away at the Garden....#9 and #10.....

And still getting to a little of the log cabin on point featuring Suzy Ultman's Critter Community...

Happy Wednesday....nearly Thursday!!!

mary :)