The Second Spray Blocking Tutorial - Sewing together HUGE projects....

This second tutorial is the result of sewing....unsewing....resewing the Beautiful Blogger Blanket of 2012.  


The blanket turned out to be the size of a single bed and after my first attempt at sewing it all together it was fan shaped and wouldn't lay flat! 


On my second attempt I found the way to create a symmetrical piece with parallel sides ... it even laid flat on a bed! This tutorial should help you if you ever attempt a big project...and it will remind me next year! 

REMEMBER TO PIN YOUR SHAPES TO YOUR BOARD 

FACE DOWN, READY TO BE SEWN TOGETHER!

Hope it helps!  

This tutorial will stay on my blog in the 'Tutorials and Projects' 

section at the top right of the home page x

TA-DAH!....The Beautiful Blogger Blanket of 2012 is finished!

It's true... the Beautiful Blogger Blanket of 2012 is finally finished! 

I was going to introduce you slowly... but I think I will just deluge

you all with a very photo heavy post... here goes....

Isn't it beautiful? 

Squares came from all these countries...

(in alphabetical order):

Australia, England, Germany, 

Holland, Ireland, Italy, 

Lebanon, New Zealand, 

South Africa, USA and Wales!

There are over 120 squares... I lost count with all the little ones...

I didn't think I was going to get the lovely big square from

 'AJ The Purple' in...but there it is in the bottom left corner AJ...

and in the end I was very thankful for it! 

Whats that you say?  Close-ups?  Okay....here you go...

 A few tiny weeny in-fills were needed!

....and oh my Goodness I was grateful to Faith for the 

pile of little squares she sent to me when I was struggling!

 Can you spot your squares amongst all this gloriousness? 

I had to do a little bit of tweaking to a couple of squares to get them in...

and now for the difficult bit for me...

....folding up the Beautiful Blogger Blanket of 2012....

 Taking a last long look before I pop it in it's box....

and off it goes.....

It will be in the post office in the morning to

 Barbina of Little Things Made With Love! 

Meanwhile... I would just like to say a huge 

Thank you 

again to all of you who took part so generously...

Here is the full list of participants and their links... 

Pop round and see all the great craft that is being 

produced around the world...

Shelley from Allformeggymoo (England)

Elisabeth from About Crochet (Holland)

Karisma from Karisma's Kraft (Australia)

Niamh from The Craft Giraffe (Ireland)

Laura from My House In Africa (South Africa)

Joanne from Rose & Dahlia (England)

Barbina from Little Things Made With Love (Germany)

Angie from Le Monde De Sucrette (Lebanon)

Velma from Made By Velma (U.S.A)

Harriet from Hilly Town Blue (England)

Bebe from Bebe Rouge (Australia)

Lindy from Who Am I? (U.S.A)

Paola from CoCo E Cucito (Italy)

Anna from Esme Ruby (Australia)

Charlotte from The Crochet Pixie (England)

Darja - no blog (England)

Victoria from Yarn Round Hook (England)

Charmian - no blog (Australia)

Debbie from Serendipity Patch (England)

Janette from The Green Dragonfly (New Zealand)

Penny from Planet Penny (England)

Kashi from Kashi's Corner (U.S.A)

Cath from Clicky Needles (England)

Judy from Vintage Homespun (England)

Julie from Little Woolie (Australia)

Deb from A World of Imagination (England)

Faith from Faith (Wales)

Marinke from A Creative Being (Holland)

AJ from AJ The Purple (USA)

We made a VERY Beautiful Blogger Blanket 

in 2012 everyone!

Are you in for 2013 ? :) xxx

What's taking so long?...

You must all be wondering what is going

 on with the Beautiful Blogger Blanket of 2012? 

The winner was announced...

(hurrah for Barbina :)).. 

and the squares have all been shown... 

So what's the hold up? Why isn't 

the blanket finished and being shown

 to you all?

Well...this is where all the squares have 

been staying for the last few weeks... 

Would you like a peak or two?.....

In the last week or so there has been 

 a lot of this going on...

and some of this...

and more of this....

....as I tried to give all the squares a

a similar edging which I could then 

use to sew them together more easily....

  

I also wanted them to have an edging

 so that each square 'stood out' as 

individual squares rather than all 

merging together...

Eventually I had lots of these...

(This photo WILL NOT stay the right 

way up...sorry!)

Spread out they looked like this...

(I have to put this on large... they are so scrumptious)!

 and this...

and this..

(my hand slipped on the colour button as

 I was playing with arty effects - and I 

liked the way it looked)! 

Sewing squares together of different sizes, textures and tensions has been quite a challenge... an enjoyable challenge... there has been lots of sewing... a bit of unpicking... then more sewing... but I am getting there.  Of course, if the squares were all the same size I could just put them into Picnik to plan it out and make a lovely collage like this... 

..but that wouldn't be as much fun would it?

So for now...here are some gorgeously gratuitous

shots of the squares on my table last week...

I am in hooky, squarey heaven! x

PS:  As you know, Picnik is closing on 19th April....causing me much consternation as I have really enjoyed using... luckily a lovely lady called Jennifer at Finding My Way in Texas has found a replacement... it has a simlilar name, similar capabilities, similar user friendliness... no collage yet, but it is coming... and it is called Picmonkey! 

Thanks for finding it Jennifer! 

The final BBB 2012 Squares post!

A beautiful little package...

a sweet card and 6 squares from 

Marinke in Holland... you might know 

her as 'Wink' of 'A Creative Being' 

Look at this set of 6 beautiful 

squares that Marinke so beautifully 

packaged...and they smell as 

gorgeous as they look!

How did you do that Marinke?

Can you let me know which cotton

 you used Marinke?  The colours 

are really zingy and fresh.. they go

 together perfectly though... Can you

 imagine a whole blanket of these? 

 I love this orange...it looks edible!

Absolutely gorgeous Marinke! 

Thank you so much for joining in! 

Well I am pretty sure that I have posted 

photos of all of the squares that were sent

 in for the BBB of 2012.. and I have tried 

to include links to all of the patterns... 

if you would like to review them all 

together, take a peak at the page 

(top right) where they are all together....

Do let me know if I haven't included 

your squares! 

Thank you all so much for joining in and 

making this blanket so lovely... the 

sewing up is almost at an end...

it has taken me FAAAAARRRRR longer

 than I ever predicted, but it really is 

a labour of love... and I'll be showing

 you some pictures of it coming together

 in the next couple of days...