I like to sew on the weekends because we tend to be home and I don’t have to stop and start running in and out for school drop offs and pick ups. I started working on the nautical quilt I shared the fabric for last week. I decided to do improv piecing with extra large blocks. I am aiming for 15″ strips, though some of my fabric was a bit smaller and I ended up with one 14″ strip.
This is the main fabric that my Stepmom wanted the quilt to be based on, so I started with a 15.5″ square to build from.
I’m just winging what I am doing for the blocks, so I decided some Half Square Triangles made into a pinwheel would be a fun addition.
I have done several other nautical quilts in the past so I have lots of prints that are fitting for this quilt. I am loving using up some stash fabrics! I feel like recently I have had a lot of fabric coming in, but not so much getting used from my stash.
I made a couple giant 15.5″ Half Square Triangles. It is super fun to sew on a large scale!
These are the strips I got finished over the weekend. My design wall is about 90″ wide for reference, but I will still need to add another block or so on the ends of these long strips to get the quilt to king size. I am thinking I might add half size rows of rectangles between the bigger block strips, but I haven’t decided yet. I’ll keep you posted as I keep working!
Did you guys get time to sew this weekend? What are you working on? Have you managed to use your stash, or are you like me and nothing in your stash ever seems “right”?!
