Interleave Mini Quilt

I am a happy member of the Quilters Guild UK Miniatures Group.  They have fab organisers, who keep us well supplied with online workshops and challenges.

As part of their offering, I had the pleasure of an online workshop with Sue Battley last week, who taught us how to go about making interleave quilts.

This was, of course, a mini one - making something perfect for a mug rug, with strips cut at 3/4" and finished at 1/4" - so cute!

I used a piece of fabric over my wadding, that I'd marked with 1/4" lines on, just to give myself a fighting chance of the stitched lines coming out parallel to each other.  Sue taught me the value of a central 'spine' line to arrange the strips on.

After marking the central lines on the back of the triangle blocks too, it was time to cut them into the 3/4" strips, and lay them out with gaps between them.  The blocks started off at roughly 8" wide and 10" high.

I laid them out on a large ruler so I could move them around when I needed to, without disturbing the layout.

Then the second triangle block was cut and interleaved between the first set of strips on the layout ruler.

After that the fun began!  Quilt as you go, but in small scale.  

You can see that I didn't always get my centre lines quite right.  I struggled to see my markings on some of them - I need to find my chalk marker if I do this again with dark colours!

So, not perfect (and, not quite finished, it still needs to be bound), but as a demonstration piece, very effective.

Thanks Sue!  Lots to think about there, and perhaps time to experiment with some larger shapes and different colour layouts too!

The finished piece is roughly 6" tall by 7" wide, once trimmed.  All those seams eat fabric!!