Unfortunately preparing to put the house on the market has imposed some limitations on my fabric availability. It is boxed up and in the cupboard down the hall so I can't easily choose what I need for the mini quilts. I have decided that I will draw up designs only and leave the making til next year. I am hoping that we will be settled in a new home by then.
February is still Summer here and one of my favourite things about Summer is the variety of luscious fruits so the Feb mini is a basket of my favourite Summer fruits.
I did some searching for baskets of fruit in Google image and printed out several. Then I copied a basket shape and proceeded to load it with fruit. I had to look at some images of all my choices so I got the shapes just right.
I think it needs a little something on the right hand side to fill the gap just above the edge of the basket. Maybe I will put in a gift tag dangling from the handle with Feb 2013 on it.
From left to right:
Watermelon, apricots, raspberries, plums, bananas, mango, cherries, avocados and red grapes.
Here are the pattern sheets to download. Make sure you print out with no scaling or deselect fit to page.
Page 1
Page 1 reversed
Page 2
Page 2 reversed
The saga of my pattern download.
To get the reversed image for applique I have worked out that I need to scan the image as a jpg then reverse it and print it out with no scaling at 100%. Then I scan the reverse page as a PDF so you should be able to print out the PDF with no scaling so it prints out at the right size. I had to do it this way because the reversed jpg came out at some odd percentage for printing once I put it in the blog post but I can't make a reverse image with a PDF hence it goes jpg then reverse then scan again as a PDF. This is all so you can download and print as easily as possible. There is no point offerring a pattern that is too hard to make the right size. I think it only gives me a problem because I have drawn it on 12 inch paper and the scanner reduces it slightly to fit onto A4.
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A Year of Mini Quilts
Friday, February 15, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Jan 2013
I have spent 3 weeks making this block.
First I decided I wanted a local scene to illustrate Summer. I found a a water view image with some cute boats that I really liked and started sketching on a 12 inch square sheet.
The image I used is copyrighted but here is a link to it.
I really wanted to imply the horizon over the sea so I put a bit of sea horizon with the sun over it. I looked up images for Gold Coast and Surfers Paradise skylines and copied it to fit as best I could. Normally I only see the view from Coolangatta beach but this view is from the ocean inland. I wanted to signify the great expanse of ocean somehow.
I had the boats in and a swimmer but when DH said we have never seen boats down there I knew he was right so I put in a windsurfer. In reality I have only seen normal surfers and para surfers but I just liked the sail idea. By studying the pictures I found on google of windsurfers I realised I needed to make the window sections on the sail. I thought the date on the sail looked good.
I was so pleased I could find all the fabrics I needed in my stash. I never thought I would find a use for the border fabric but I think it is perfect on this block.
I cut a strip for the sky and used a paper pattern piece for the beach.
Using the edge of the sea as a guide cut a piece of fusible applique paper in reverse. Fuse this onto a big piece for the sea and cut out the curve.
I marked where the seam line between sand/sea and sky would be using the layout design.
Trim straight across 1/4 above the seam line.
Place the skyline using the layout design. Stitch around the top. The bottom edge will be in the seam.
I seamed the sky to the sea/sand. The sun was a tight fit so I added it last when the border was on.
I stem stitched the waves in no.5 pearl. Because the blue was dark I used white chalk to mark the waves for sewing.
I stitched the date on the sail in 2 strands of embroidery floss with back stitch.
The patterns gave me some problems. It was fine for me. I scanned the pages as jpegs then printed them. The size was 94% after scanning so I just printed at 100%.
When I came to share them the size changed a lot.
You can get the jpg's on my blog post.
valspierssews
First I decided I wanted a local scene to illustrate Summer. I found a a water view image with some cute boats that I really liked and started sketching on a 12 inch square sheet.
The image I used is copyrighted but here is a link to it.
I really wanted to imply the horizon over the sea so I put a bit of sea horizon with the sun over it. I looked up images for Gold Coast and Surfers Paradise skylines and copied it to fit as best I could. Normally I only see the view from Coolangatta beach but this view is from the ocean inland. I wanted to signify the great expanse of ocean somehow.
I had the boats in and a swimmer but when DH said we have never seen boats down there I knew he was right so I put in a windsurfer. In reality I have only seen normal surfers and para surfers but I just liked the sail idea. By studying the pictures I found on google of windsurfers I realised I needed to make the window sections on the sail. I thought the date on the sail looked good.
I was so pleased I could find all the fabrics I needed in my stash. I never thought I would find a use for the border fabric but I think it is perfect on this block.
I cut a strip for the sky and used a paper pattern piece for the beach.
Using the edge of the sea as a guide cut a piece of fusible applique paper in reverse. Fuse this onto a big piece for the sea and cut out the curve.
Fuse the sea to the sand along the curve.
I marked where the seam line between sand/sea and sky would be using the layout design.
Trim straight across 1/4 above the seam line.
Place the skyline using the layout design. Stitch around the top. The bottom edge will be in the seam.
I seamed the sky to the sea/sand. The sun was a tight fit so I added it last when the border was on.
I stem stitched the waves in no.5 pearl. Because the blue was dark I used white chalk to mark the waves for sewing.
I stitched the date on the sail in 2 strands of embroidery floss with back stitch.
The patterns gave me some problems. It was fine for me. I scanned the pages as jpegs then printed them. The size was 94% after scanning so I just printed at 100%.
When I came to share them the size changed a lot.
You can get the jpg's on my blog post.
valspierssews
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