Big Dream- Week 2

Hello everyone, I have got a wonderful sewing and quilting week and made good progress with my Big Dream petals. Unfortunately, I have not received my ruler foot and rulers from Amazon.ca yet, because the items were shipped from China and are presently on hold at the warehouse. That's fine, I still can quilt each petal in a free-motion matter. 

WEEK 2- WAVY VINES PETAL

This Leaf Veins design was easy enough this week. The only guide I did was to trace a wavy line in the middle of the petal for the steam and echoes it back down. For the veins, I traced one wavy vein for as a guide. Each vine was echoed 1/2" apart.

 The first round of design is called Lef Veins. The Big Dream Quilt along Guidebook can be purchased at LeahDay.com/DreamGuide. All instructions are available for this panel. She also offered the same guide information on how to make a jacket too. You can download the pattern at a very low cost. There are free video tutorials that go along with this too.

MARKING THE PETALS

 

I've used the guide and pinned# on small papers to indicate which petals needed to be quilted in a specific design. I also pinned each corner of the panel with letters for a reference point that will follow the guidelines.

Join the fun!

 

Big Dream

I've returned to my previous simple blog set up which has fewer options. The other one was nice and updated but had too many options of tabs and everything time I went there, it took a bit of time to look for an older post. Anyway. I changed it back. So my newest posts my look a bit wacko.

 This Saturday I'm not working. Yahoo! So I've started free-motioned on my Big Dream panel. It's a class I'm taking with Leah Day for about eight weeks. It may take me longer than that to finish it all. The panel is a large beautiful flower and has you free-motion it, you start to see the each petal standing out more and more.

BIG DREAM- Hoffman Spectrum Spectrum by Jeanie Summrall-Ajero.

You can purchase the Big Dream panel at your local quilt store. My quilt store had only this colour option available.

This was the first step, outlining each petal and echoing it. You can follow Leah Day's class on the Big Dream too.

A problem I tend to make while I quilt is to have a 'bundle' of fabric that rippled throughout my top. I don't know why it does happen and I've asked for help in that area.

 https://freemotionproject.com/2020/03/kicking-off-the-dream-big-quilt-along.html

Prayign Woman-Landscape

PRINTING PATTERN

I sketched my design then took a picture of it and downloaded it on my computer and used the EQ8 to print an accurate size for my project. With all those pages printed, it was a good thing I had a copy of the prayer-woman pattern to guide me, otherwise, I wouldn't have had troubled taping it together that would make sense.   

   

Printed pattern

 

I tapped all the sheets together in rows. After the Master-Pattern was completely done, I trace each landscape piece with Freezer paper or parchment paper. Any paper that you can see through is fine. I also wrote a  number on each piece as a reference point and do the same on my print-cope of the pattern.

All my landscape pieces were traced and then pinned to the right side of the fabric. When I traced the piece I added the seams allowance but I learned quickly that it had to be trimmed it off for the seam allowance to be accurated.

Following my landscape pattern, I turned over the seam allowance by finger pressing the seam and glued it down and I ironed it to give it a sharp edge.

This is another scrappy piece. You can see a bit of the paper on the right-side.

For the landscape pieces, I traced them individually but I learned that of the pieces resulted in not match perfectly. But for the sun rays, I traced the rays and sun in its entirety and marked some point along the lines. It was efficient in sewing the pieced together that way.

Mini Block

I had fun sewing these mini blocks. Each Monday Leah Day will show how to make on of that mini-block. Check out her website if you're interested.

 There are so many possibilities that you can do with all those little blocks. I'm not sure if I will turn it into a simpler wall quilt or add it to another quilt. There are so cute!

I will draw the pattern of each mini-block in my journal so I can use it as a reference page in the future.