Wow! I can not believe today is the last day of 2013! Where has December gone! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year :). This month is the sixth and last month of the Easy As ABC QAL. Again I ran out of time to do all the blocks and only managed to do 2 of the blocks that I had already calculated in earlier months i.e. for “E” and “S”. I am making a smaller version of the Easy As ABC QAL quilt i.e. reducing the blocks/quilt by 50% so it will be a cot quilt or a nice lap sized quilt for a toddler :). My 11yo son is turning 12yo in just over 1 week and has requested a Minecraft quilt for his birthday present. I am busily trying to get it done before his birthday and hoping that I can finish the rest of this Easy As ABC QAL blocks and the quilt top by January 13th 2014 :). Please visit Blossom Heart Quilts to find out more information about the Easy As ABC...
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November have flown by so quickly. I can not believe there is only 2 weeks left of school before my kids go on summer vacation. Lots still to do and so little time! For the fifth month of Easy As ABC QAL, I have calculated and cut out all the letters but only found time to sew 2 of the blocks. I hope to finish the other 3 next week :). For more information about the Easy As ABC QAL, please visit Blossom Heart Quilts....
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Time is flying by really quickly. I had plans to make these blocks at the beginning of this month but there were too many school events keeping me busy. Luckily there was nothing planned today so I quickly made up the blocks for this month. Here are my 5 blocks for this month. Here are all the blocks so far. I can not wait to finish all the blocks and piece it all together :). To find out more information about Easy As ABC QAL, please visit Blossom Heart Quilts’ Easy As ABC QAL :). I am linking this up with Blossom Heart Quilts’ Sew Cute Tuesday (22nd Oct 2013) and Freshly Pieced’s WIP Wednesday (23rd Oct 2013). ...
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September has been a crazy busy month for me with lots of school events on at the kids’ school. The kids are now on 2 weeks school holidays so I was able to make the letters for the third month of Easy As ABC QAL. You can find out more information about it on Blossom Heart Quilts here. We are now half way through the QAL but it is still not too late to join the QAL :). Here are my letters for this month. Here are all my blocks so far for the Easy As ABC QAL. I am really liking the rainbow effect. Now to figure out how I want to piece them together i.e. with or without sashing :)....
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The next 5 letters for Easy As ABC QAL is now available. To find out more about Easy As ABC QAL, please visit Blossom Hearts Quilts. Thanks to Alyce at Blossom Heart Quilts for her tip about scaling down, I think I did a better job of scaling down the letters for this month’s letters :). I also caught up with last month’s letter “e”. Here is a pic of all the letters so far :). I am really having fun with this QAL and getting better with my 1/4″ seam allowance. Looking forward to next month’s letters...
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The first 5 letters for Easy As ABC QAL is now available on Blossom Heart Quilts. I was so excited I read over everything twice and jumped right into cutting fabrics out. Newbie mistake!!! If you are going to scale a pattern/block, make sure you take into account seam allowances. Luckily I was scaling down by 50% so realised my mistake early and did 1/8″ seam allowance instead of 1/4″ seam allowance. Will be doing it correctly for the rest of the blocks. Despite my newbie mistake, I think my first 4 letters turned out ok :). I forgot to buy aqua fabric so will head back to the fabric shop for the rest of the colours next week. Hopefully I can do “E” before the end of the month. Below are my first 4 blocks for the QAL. My first 4 letters for Easy As ABC QAL I decided to make the coloured borders thicker to make the final block size 7″ x 7 3/4″. I am thinking of giving each block another white border before joining all the blocks up...
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