Spider Web Quiltalong 2014 ~ Creating the Web

~ Spider Web Quilt-Along ~

  Sashing and Piecing the Web

Weaving the Web

Time to add the black sashing strips and to piece and finish the top!

From your border and webbing fabric cut:  1 and 1/4" inch strips

The number of strips you will need will depend upon the WOF. 

You will be sewing one strip to one side of each triangle so you will need 8 strips.

Cut one strip and gage how long it needs to be for your web, allowing at least 2" beyond the edges of both the center and the outer edge of your triangles, so that you will have nice web points on the outer edge and enough to sew the center point of the web.

Cut strips and cut them to size as you sew ...

Add one strip to the left side of your triangle unit as shown above.

Fold the right side over the left triangle and align the curved we,

 pinning these intersections.

Remove pins as you sew.

Your web pieces will look like this,

Sew a black strip to the left side and add two more triangle units in this manner to form a half of your web.

This is one half.
In this photo I have already trimmed the inside center point of the black strips where they meet to form the hub of the web.
Notice that there is no black sashing on the bottom of this half.

The center black sashing will be added to the other half of the web.

This is what the pressed back of the half looks like. 

I pressed the pieced triangles toward the black sashing.

Sew the second half in the same manner.

Add a long 1 and 1/2" strip to one long side of one half.

This will connect the two halves neatly

and make the center seam

less bulky

Sew the two halves together.

 I added a center spider cut from this fabric ...

my circle was about 2 inches round

 to add  a nice touch to my web

I cut a smaller circle of batting and folded the fabric circle over the edge and inserted my needle here to hide the knot. 

Then I folded the rest of the edge under as I sewed it to the web,

by inserting my needle through the back edge to hide my stitches ...

... as I sewed around the circle

The batting circle gave my spider a nice little cushion.

This web is ready for finishing!

Next Step ... Completing The Quilt!

Butterfly and I are sewing along and spinning a new web.

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If you have missed any installments in this

Spider Web Quilt-Along 

 Links to all the steps may be found here! 

 ... just keep sewing ... 

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