Remember this fun little mess?
I thought to myself...what would happen if I played with just my favorites?
That turned into this!
Which I love!
I call her "Prairie Rose"!
And I love it in any size!
I am making this for a new Baby Rose! (Shhh! for this couple,
remember?)
On top of all this fun new block excitement, I have indeed changed the name of this blog to
"Cedar Fork Stitches"!
To celebrate both, I have made up a little tutorial for the "Prairie Rose"!
Materials Needed for a 9" block:
2 1/2" charms: 2 for the "center", 4 for the "middle", 6 for the "outer"
12 total
12 2 1/2" white squares
12 2" white squares
Mark each 2 1/2" white square on the diagonal
Match up one charm with each of the 2 1/2" white squares, right sides together and make half-square triangles out of all of them, stitching 1/4" to each side of the marked line. Cut apart on the diagonal.
Trim to 2"
A nice, neat little stack of 24 HSTs :)
Arrange like this:
Sew into rows. Sew the rows together.
This block lends itself really well to "web" construction.
If you have never sewn a "web", Linda @ Flourishing Palms has a very
thorough tutorial!
It looks like this:
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| flip the 2nd column onto the 1st column |
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| stack in order from top to bottom and carry to your machine |
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| chain piece in order |
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| leave them chained together...don't cut them apart! |
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| make a stack of the 3rd column, from top to bottom |
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| stacks 3, 4, 5, and 6, all in top-to-bottom order |
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| chain piece without cutting the rows apart |
It looks like this when it is all done, about 15 minutes later!
It is a lot easier to do than to explain!
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| see the connecting threads? |
Take the "web" to your iron, and press rows in alternate directions
Sew row to row, another 15 minutes and,
Voila!
I just may end up with the prettiest rose garden in the county!
Thanks again for your generous feedback a few days ago regarding bloggy stuff!
I appreciate you, my quilty bloggy friends, more than you know!
