1. My Tinner... "Quilter's Espresso"
This project is challenge to our guild starting in February. To participate, each person must make a central quilt block and choose a theme. My choice is coffee. I had purchase this great coffee print fabric, thinking I'd make myself an apron out of it, but was inspired to use it for this project instead.
We were also to make a label for participants to sign and place it all in a tin with 1m of main fabric and some fat quarters of coordinating prints. At the meeting, our tins are all assigned a number and each month we take home the next higher number. Mine was assigned #6, so next meeting I will take home tin #7. Each month we are to add two border strips. We will be told how wide they are to be made and what quilting technique. We are to use some of the fabric supplied in the tin and add some of our own. The tins will be passed around 5 to 6 times and at the end we all get our own back to keep and finish off as desired. I am hoping to use mine as a wall hanging in the kitchen.
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| I started with my label first. It gave me some inspiration for the main block. |
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| This is my general plan for the central block. I liked the idea for the awning along the top to give the impression of a cafe. The pattern pieces are copies of the printed fabric enlarged 400%. |
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| I ended up making the fabric behind the word coffee smaller than originally planned. Because of this, I added the striped edge to the side to give the block easier dimensions to work with. |
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| Finished block is 14.5" square. |
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| A note of appreciation to fellow quilters. That and the inside of the tin was sticky and I wanted to cover it. |
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| My tin ready to send off. |
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