Small Piecing: SFMQG - QuiltCon Charity Quilt Challenge

I'm finding it hard to believe that on 31 July I'll have lived in South Florida for a whole year. 

Doesn't time fly and sometimes we're left wondering just where it went to.

I do know I've been on a huge personal journey completely transforming my life and, along the way, I've made some awesome new friends and returned to my art school roots.  We're also in the middle of a fingers-crossed 14-month renno' on the forever home we've purchased and are already in our second rental while the work is underway.  

It's true, quilting and blogging have been far from my mind so I'm delighted that last weekend I attended my first South Florida MQG meeting.

It didn't take me long to decide to become a member (read more about the meeting here) and I brought a small piecing project home with me.  I'm not kidding, it's a really small piecing project.

SMALL PIECING 

QUILTCON CHARITY QUILT CHALLENGE

Instructions:

Any style blocks incorporating piecing that no more than 1" wide or long.  

Use only the supplied fabrics and the background fabric (either a dark or light purple) must be at least 50% of the finished block.

Any size block to max size 10-1/2" x 10-1/2" (unfinished)/10" x 10" (finished).

You can read more here on SFMQG's blog.

The blocks will be pieced into a quilt that will be part of The Modern Quilt Guild's QuiltCon Charity Challenge - Small Piecing.

Read more here on the MQG website.

I brought away 2 sets to make 2 blocks, one dark purple and one light purple and I took one scrap piece of each of the other 3 colours provided.

My Method:

I used a simple sew/slice/sew/slice improv method continuing to sew and slice until the pieces were less than an inch in size.  Then I incorporated the made fabric into the background fabric to make the block. 

 

The finished blocks measure:

light purple - 10" x 7-1/4"

dark purple - 9-1/2" x 6-3/4"

My piecing is tiny - that cent is approx 3/4" across. 

We were asked to make up an improv block with the scraps or bring them back - apart from the slightly larger than tiny scrap (bottom left) my scraps, for once, went in the bin! 

Materials + Tools

My fave sewing and quilting tools, notions and books, along with some of the fabrics I've used in this tute and more are detailed here on my Amazon Influencer Page.

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SMALL PIECING 

QUILTCON CHARITY QUILT CHALLENGE

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