I have been working on the Stitchery Sampler for several weeks. At first I had planned to cut out all my fabrics for each block and then go back and assemble them, but after I finished the hexagons on block 4, I decided to assemble what I have cut out.
Block 2 is called The Clover and is actually applique. I have only done applique one other time when I made a quilted pillow, so I wasn't sure how these were going to turn out. I watched the video Joanna had put together, but she used freezer paper and at the time I was working on the pieces I didn't have any and I remembered when I appliqued the pillow I completed, I had used fused applique pieces so I decided to do that with this block.
The pattern comes with a clover shape, so I copied that, picked the fabrics I wanted to use and fused them to the fusable paper that I had bought for another project. I then cut around each shape cutting 4 pieces for each clover. In order to complete the block, I cut a piece for the background and applied the four pieces for each clover spacing them out as Joanna had described in the video.
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All the clovers added to the background piece! |
Once I attached all the clovers to the background, I then done a zigzag stitch around each clover to make sure it would not come off once the quilt top is completed and washed. The stitching is not perfect, but it accomplishes what I was trying to do and gives me something to improve upon as I continue to do more and more quilts.
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Completed BLOCK 2 |
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