cuts’n’stripes

Planning to do a patchwork quilt I wanted to get some experience in how to sew small parts of fabric together. Inspired by a pillow I saw in the book of Ganderton and Berridge I took a piece of yellow fabric big enough for my pillow and a piece of a striped one and first decided which stripes I wanted to have on my pillow.

Then I cut them and wonder about their order, which in the end I kind of messed up…

After this decision I started to sew the first stripe to the yellow fabric and then cut the the fabric and sewed it on the other side of the stripes.

It’s a little difficult to get the pieces in the right position, so I can not really give an explanation besides my pictures. I’m sure there is an easy method to do it right but I haven’t really found out.

Finishing the sewing you still can modify your results by using the iron. As you hopefully can see at the following pictures the seams are of different shape. At the right the stripe is as flat as the yellow fabric, in the middle in pops out and at the left it seems lying behind the main fabric.

You get the different results by ironing the seams from behind in different ways. For the right one you separate the parts of the seam, in the middle you iron the fabric in direction of the stripes and at the left iron it to the main fabric. In the picture you see it of course the other way round.

and no pic of my messy buttonholes!