Meet Me in the Middle of Barcelona

This quilted was started May 2016 with a layer cake called Barcelona and some grey shot cotton.

This pattern is called Meet In the Middle and is free HERE at Jo's Country Junction blog.
You cut 2.5" strips from the layer cake and join them together with your background fabric.

Sew all the strips together.

 

 And voila you have a quilt top!  Just needed some quilting.

Too easy, this quilt looks good, no tricky seams to match and is a perfect single bed/large lap for long teenager's size.

 I am definitely going to make this again, but next time I am going to sew wonky lines across the strips instead of SITD parallel - idea courtesy of Lisa who made the same quilt (if fact the pattern was her idea!) and I much prefer her quilting method.    

Meet me in the middle of Barcelona, finished in January 2017.

Happy quilting. Sue.

a new beginning?

Due to the pain I am having pain in my right shoulder I have been looking to reduce activities that aggravate it.  However I had a days sewing booked in, whats a girl to do?

With minimal time to prepare, I tore through my project boxes looking for an "easy" project for the day.

Alas everything required either fabric purchases (which means a road trip) or was more complicated than I had the brain space for. 

Except for this layer cake, and length of charcoal shot cotton I had bundled together, with a pattern!

 Yep, I started a new project!  With a few turns of the Go Cutter I had my layer cake and background cut into 2.5" strips.  And then I could settle into some mindless piecing.

All that piecing resulted in all these long stripes, which I have also sewed into pairs.

That took all day, but all I have to do is sew the pairs all together and I am 3/4 finished!  

This is the free pattern I am using;

Meet in the Middle

and I have pinched the photo of the finished quilt (68" x 80") by the 

designer Jo Kramer from her blog: Jo's Country Junction

A very simple strip quilt, but perfect for my days sewing as everything came out of my stash and I didn't have to think beyond sewing five different strips together.  My colours are very different from this photo, so hope to have a finished top to show you next time!

Happy quilting, Sue.