Solids

It may not seem like it, but I have a serious crush on solids.  I know, I am the print queen...but someday I may turn into the solid queen.  Just saying...you never know.

See, photographic evidence.  Isn't it cute?  I love my little wall-hanging made with Kona Solids. 

I started by cutting my solids into strips and sewing them onto a white strip.  This whole project started out as just fun sewing.  I was making it up as I went.  My favorite kind of sewing.

I cut those strips into smaller pieces and sewed two with the same color together on the diagonal to get a 4-patch.

I placed these 4-patches out in the pattern I wanted and then gathered them up by row and numbered them so I would have ease in sewing them together.

Sew the rows together.  As you can see, I have pinned the row # to the very first 4-patch.  Again, for ease of sewing everything together.  I am sewing everything on the diagonal, so I need to keep very close track of what patch goes where since it changes on each row.

No matter how careful I am...it doesn't mean everything goes completely smooth.  Enter seam ripper.

Better.

I have a helper as you can see.  Puss is a great quilting buddy....she doesn't get in the way at all.   

Pin like crazy, baby!  For something as simple as this quilt, I really wanted my corners to line up perfectly.  When ironing, you want to alternate which direction you iron to.  If you notice, I always ironed to the colored solid back when I was first sewing my 4-patches together.  It will hep your seams line up.

So simple, yet so pretty.

I used the walking foot to quilt this and even though it is my nemesis, for such a small quilt with simple, straight lines, it worked perfectly.

Oh, and the binding...yeah...it's a print.  Don't hate me, I couldn't resist.

Thanks for reading!

Heather