Wednesday 11 September 2013

Anyone for Tea?


 If you live in the UK, you'll be needing a nice hot cuppa right now to keep you warm. Autumn has certainly arrived and we are all feeling a little chilled.
I have been busy making a block from this book by Sarah Fielke.


A while back, Sarah asked if people might like to make a teacup block or two and send them to her. She is going to make a quilt from everybody's blocks. Would you believe that, other than her Mum, no-one  has ever made her a quilt! Well I had the book so I volunteered to make one.
It started off fairly simple - just cutting wedges off a 4 1/2" block to make the main part of the cup


but then I really struggled with the half square triangles on the side of the saucer. They were cut from templates and I thought I must have cut them wrong. I cut again, I sewed, I unpicked, I sewed again. What I thought would take me an hour, has taken a whole morning! In the end I just made an ordinary half square triangle and trimmed it to the right size. Now, I'm laughing about it - having just this minute searched for and read Sarah's original post  requesting the teacup blocks, I notice she said there's a mistake in the book and the template is wrong!! Why oh why didn't I look for the post first!! 
Never mind, my block is finished and I aim to make a second.


I have also been cutting out the pieces for the remaining Swoon blocks.


I's going to be a bit more blue/grey than I had originally intended, as I didn't quite have enough of the beige fabrics to include them in the remaining blocks. This is what 4 completed blocks look like


I really hope to have this finished very soon. With the weather turning colder, everyone's hugging a quilt round here!

Linking up with Work in Progress Wednesday over at Freshly Pieced.
Have a good week!

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8 comments:

  1. Well what a start... Yours s lovely!

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  2. The tea cup block is so cute! And I love your swoons! the blue and gray looks great!

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  3. I love the tea cup! How cute is that!? Now I am inspired! I need to add one to my to do list! Love fall!

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  4. The teacup is lovely, I've borrowed the book from the library and thought about having a go, glad I've seen your tip about the mistake first!

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  5. Your swoon blocks really are delightful, Julie, you make it look so easy ... are they?

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  6. Cute teacup! Looking forward to seeing the finished swoon :)

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