Tiramisu Christmas quilt - step 3

Working on this project is addictive - don't think I have made so much progress in so little time before. Although I was "warned" when I watched the video made by Jen at Shabby Fabrics on how to make this quilt.

It does help that all blocks are the same and having cut all fabrics as a first step was a good move as well.

It does help that each unit is easy and that there are four same units per block. It does make the sewing very straight forward.

It does help that the fabric is so nice to work with.

It does help that I want to finish this quilt before Christmas.

Tiramisu Christmas quilt step 2

My aim for October was to make 160 flying geese. I thought it was going to take me forever ...... and in the end the process went faster than i could have imagined. But then, this is the first time that I really tried serial quilting. In a few evenings I cut 320 little squares and 160 rectangles.

I love working with the fabric, it is sparkly, it is beautiful .....

From previous quilts where I had to cut of triangles, I ended up with lots of little triangles, so wanted to sew two lines across.

It did make sense and now have lots of little squares that will be easier to handle than the little triangles.

In a few evenings I sewed in series 320 little squares on 160 rectangles.

And as I was on a roll decided to get ahead of myself and sew the 160 flying geese two by two - part of step 4 of assembling the block.

Linking up with Patty of Elm Street Quilts as my October OMG. Feeling good!!

On to step 3 - making corner blocks

OMG October - Tiramisu step 2

My latest challenge is to make the Tiramisu quilt by Christmas. I chopped the process up in different steps and omitted step 2 in my planning. So adjusting my timing to making step 2 in October. Ideally I make a head start with step 3 ....

Step 2 is making 160 flying geese, i.e. drawing diagonal lines on 360 little squares, sewing 80 little squares per setting - not mixing up the fabric and cutting, cutting 80 triangles per setting and sewing on the next batch .... ironing in between ......

The fabric is lovely, a mix of shiny prints with more sober prints. The combination that made me just want to make this. As I will be cutting a lot triangles was wondering if it would be worth the effort to make two lines of stitching, thus when cutting the waste fabric would already be sewn together and making it in to a pillow much faster and actually getting done.

For now sticking to making the 160 flying geese as part of my OMG for October organized by Patty at Elm Street Quilts