GTSB: Making Progress

I am nearly done with section 1 of my Green Tea and Sweet Beans quilt! I’ve mostly worked on this quilt in the summers when visiting my parents at their lake house since it doesn’t require a sewing machine (and I don’t usually have room to pack one). Though, now that I have been working on it with my rotary cutter and sewing machine, I’m making a lot more progress.

(These propeller blocks are actually from section 4, but another one that pieces up so much more quickly on the machine than by hand.) One thing about sewing by hand that I’ve noticed – my seams are not as tight as a machine-sewn block and they tend to come apart at the edges. I’ve had to do quite a bit of re-sewing on the very last 1/4″ of several seams once I squared up the blocks.

Orange and pink are one of my favorite combinations! One thing I’m really enjoying about this quilt is using up little bits of precious out-of-print fabric (like that rust, orange, and pink dot by Heather Ross from a very old Munki Munki line).

More Heather Ross cuteness – those chickens are going to be sprinkled throughout this quilt.

So here’s a snapshot of my blocks so far:

My plan is to finish that last block in section 1 and then move on to the machine-friendly blocks in the rest of the quilt. That will take a big chunk out of what is left to make!