3D patchwork quilt – part 3

Putting together the blocks! So far I have sewn 5 strips of triangles together, but not the strips to each other yet. I need to line them all up together first and then fill in the gaps at the end that will be trimmed down. Seams are ironed upwards for one strip and then down for the next one etc to reduce the bulk where they then join together. At the moment it is taking about 1 hour to sew 16 triangles into one strip. 10 to do. The picture below shows the first 2. I am excited watching this come together.

Some other pictures of construction, and laying out the triangles.

In between doing these I have also been researching finishing off the actual quilt. Bearing in mind I have never done quilting…..

I went to Ella at Sew Simple for a freehand quilting lesson which was really good fun. Although the course itself was freehand quilting, which I think overlaps a little with freemotion embroidery, I got to ask lots of questions about how to finish off the quilt, laying out the backing and the batting and pinning together and marking out where to quilt. So I have a much better idea now! I also know to get batting that allows a reasonable gap between quilting stitching.