I am leaving tomorrow on my trip to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (yay!) and I wanted to get one last post in before I go. Lately I have been working on a new quilt - it's my first applique, so we'll see how it goes. There will be 5 patterns, each done twice. I designed my own patterns for this - I googled patterns and saw that they were just simple drawings. Making your own is really easy! So today's Square of the Day is...
...the cupcake! Originally I cut it out with a 1/4 inch seam allowance, which is what you can see in the picture. But then along came Wonder-Under, which is great because you can make detailed cuts without worrying about the seams messing it up.
*edit – now I’ve just gone through the fabric and almost all of the pieces have come off. The W-U didn’t even last 24 hours…that’s pretty disappointing. Is there a trick to it? Anyway, here’s the sketch for the new quilt.
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More of the cupcake without the seam allowance (and the blue fabric with the chocolates will be every other square – that’s the shaded part on the sketch).
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Potter World, here we come!