Granny's Closet

Hi friends!  Hope you are having a great weekend.  It was rainy here and the mister said something about earning double points in his video game this weekend ... all that added up to just more sewing time for me!  :-)

Despite having about a dozen projects I should've been working on, I ended up making 9 granny's square blocks and another Scrappy Trip Along block!  I blame the sudden desire to make little granny's entirely on Clara!

For my grannies, I used some 2.5" inch squares that I cut from the Millie's Closet panel.  The panel squares are 6" so it was easy to trim them down and get lots of different prints from a fairly small piece of fabric.

It's pretty basic for these smaller granny squares (just one ring around the middle, instead of 2 rings).  I started with a basic 9 patch.

Then I added half square triangles (cut from 3" squares) to the sides.  I like to use a larger square for the triangles so I have a little more room for trimming them down.

Then trimmed them down (0.25" from the points).

My blocks finished at 6.25" square. It's too dark to take pictures of all of them now, but I did even get the rows sashed together!

That's all for now.  What have you been making this weekend?

Happy Sewing!  :-)

Granny Gone Wrong

I love Granny blocks.  They are so fun and can look so different depending on the prints you choose.  I especially love that mini charm packs make it so easy to just get started.

I was playing around a few weeks ago for a mini quilt kit sample and I got all the way to the point of adding borders when I realized Granny had gone wrong ... 

Yup ... I managed to flip two of the squares when I was stitching my rows together.  But at this point, I wasn't about to take it all apart!  I did manage to salvage it for a slightly different version of the project and will share about that soon. :-)

Anyone else ever get to the point of no return when you finally realized the mistake?

Happy Sewing!  :-) 

Grannies

Don't you just love granny blocks?!  Good heavens they are fun, scrappy, and so easy to make.  I made a few last weekend ... after I dusted my machine off.

Leanne over at She Can Quilt was the first to be the queen bee in our Modern Stitching Bee last month.  Regretfully, I got a little behind with the start of the school year ... but I am getting back on track and catching up on the stitchy things in life.

I made two granny blocks for Leanne.  One is scrappy with blue and orange and the other made from a few aqua and red charm squares leftover from a charm swap with Kelsey.

Which got me thinking about my Millie's Closet panel ... which ended up looking like this ...

With some pretty scraps, too.

More grannies are in my future for sure!

Hope you're having a wonderful week.

Happy Sewing! :-)