Happy Jack!

Good morning! I'm so excited for our first meeting tomorrow and for our first project, Happy Jack!


As a reminder, here are the fabric requirements:

(2) 6 1/2 inch squares of black
(2) 6 1/2 inch squares of orange
(20) 5 1/2inch squares black
(12) 5 1/2inch squares orange
1/3 yard black print fabric (mouth, nose, eyes)
1/6 yard green fabric (stem)
1 1/8 yard fabric for the back
1/4 yard fabric for the binding

Wednesday, you should bring:

Two 1/4 yard cuts of orange fabric
Three 1/4 yard cuts of black fabric (that's different from what I told most of you)
rotary cutter, ruler, and mat if you have them
sewing machine, if you feel like it

So here's the plan for our meeting:

1. Cut out our squares and swap fabric
2. Talk about basic quilting techniques (fabric, thread, seam allowances, needles, yada yada)
3. Sew our half-square triangles
4. Maybe get started chaining together some of our squares
5. Talk about what kinds of projects we want to do, how committed we want to be, and whatever else seems important.
6. Eat treats. Or maybe eat treats first.
   

Please feel free to bring your kids. We'll send them all down to the toy room and hope for the best.

P.S. I'll add you all as writers to the blog. Go ahead and add posts, comments, links, or whatever else you think we should read.

P.P.S. If you want to do the easy method of half-square triangle piecing, cut your larger squares to 6 1/2 inch. If you've already cut them to 6 inches, no worries - you'll just piece them together the traditional way.