Mystery Quilt Clue 2 - Get Those Blades Sharpened!

It's time to start cutting!

I have just put my instructions to the test for CLUE 2 of my Mystery Quilt project and found I was two 1 1/2" strips light for Fabric A! So I've had to tweak the instructions a bit. Sorry about that - but you should have sufficient from the yardage I gave you. You might also find you have a whole strip of Fabric C spare as well. 

But Hey! - we can always use a 1 1/2" strip somewhere - can't we!?

So Clue 2 is now good to go and, in the morning, I will be emailing it to everyone who has signed up already (22 at the last count!)

We are going to prepare lots of strip sets and cut them into Sub Units which in turn make up Units 3-6 (top to bottom in the picture above). There's a lot of slicing with your rotary cutter so put a new blade in now!

You will see that I have steered away from my usual pastels and pretty prints for this demo.




 I have used the white cotton sheeting off-cuts from Empress Mills, because it looks so crisp. But I forgot how it tends to pucker up with too much steam and has a surprising tendency to distort when you cut it. So I needed to take extra care. 

My bold blue and yellow should really zing when it all goes together - but I also have a cunning plan to use up some scraps along the way! Look at all my little piles of cross-cut pieces. I love it at this stage, when you are getting set up for chain piecing. Don't forget to sort them out and label them before you start, so you don't lose the plot.

Visit me at ENGLISHQUILTER for more details if you would like to join in and I will send you all the PDFs for FREE! (NB: Don't try to buy it - just send me an email request via the contact page). 

If you are a member of my Facebook Group, please feel free to share pictures of your progress. I will try to release further instructions every week, in about 8 instalments. (But I will let you have it quicker, if you find yourself racing ahead - if I can keep up- just ask!)






Happy Quilting Everyone!

Janet

www.englishquilter.co.uk   

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