Spider Web Quilt-Along ~ Part 4 ~ 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 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.

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 am sorry my camera battery needed recharging

and I did not take photos of these steps.

For my center I cut a little white spider from a scrap piece of 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.

The web is ready for finishing!

Part 5 ~ Quilting and Binding HERE

If you have missed any installments in this

Spider Web Quilt-Along

 Links to all the steps may be found here! 

~ <3 ~

Spider Web Quilt-Along ~ Part 3 ~ Cutting and Sewing the Spider Web Curves

Time to Cut and Piece Some Curves!

I used my Quick Curve Ruler,  but this could be done with a small plate.

If you have a preferred curve ruler, this may work as well.

To learn how best to cut and sew with the QCR,
I am going to refer you to this link from Jenny @ Sew Kind of Wonderful who developed this quilting ruler:

Quick Curve Ruler Tutorial Videos 

 I watched these several times and read all the instructions that came with the ruler before I cut and sewed that first time
and found them to be very helpful.
I do not cross my hands over each other, as Jenny does when she holds the curved pieces for stitching as it does not feel natural to me.
Try different ways of holding and feeding the curves
to find what works best for you.
Sew a few practice scrap curves if you are using this ruler for the first time for this Spider Web Project until you feel ready to go.

Then ready, set, cut and sew!

  1st cut

First, align your ruler in the center and along a straight line

on your black border.  Cut!

You will have 8 of these crescents

These are not scrap!

You will be cutting and using these for the curved webbing:

1st cut this crescent into two long curved strips.

Then cut a tiny curve off the bottom of the small piece.

you can also cut these pieces by folding in half

and placing the center of the ruler on the fold.

Time to cut the triangles!

This is the cut that took the longest for me on the first one until I felt ready to pick up the rotary cutter.

Find the middle of your triangle and place the curve of the ruler over the section with three pieces.

Align a mark on the ruler with a straight seam.

I used the bottom seam to align this cut.

You want to avoid cutting the seams,

but you can make this cut anywhere else in this section really.

Just pick the same place on each triangle.

I aligned the edges of the curve just above the seam line.

... and cut!

last curve cut!

Place the ruler on the section with two pieces, find the center,

align the ruler on a straight line.

I used the top seam for aligning my ruler for this cut.

 Repeat for each triangle section and lay your pieces by your machine

as in the above photo.

Start sewing by turning the longest curved strip over onto the outside piece, right sides together.
Match the middles of this pieces by folding the pieces in half and lining up the fold marks.
(Sorry I forgot to take a picture of this one)

You can pin this part if you want but I did not pin at this time.

For the next seam, you may want to pin.  I did ...

try to line up the seams on the cut charms as closely as possible.
Pin as needed ...

Remove pins as you sew!

 Add the inside smaller curved piece in the same manner.

Fold over, sew; then fold open.

Turn the small tip of the triangle over the sewn piece and sew again.

Your triangle units will now look like this.

I pressed toward the black strips for these seams.

Trim each of the 8 triangle units.

As you can see, in this one the cut charm squares do not line up "perfectly."  

I do not sew "perfect" but I try to sew "good."

If this bothers you, pick out your seam and resew.

I only did this for maybe one or two matched seams.

This was one of them ...

I actually "fixed" this one by picking out a few threads and realigning and sewing again, although it still is not quite "perfect."

"Good" works for me. :)

The trickiest part is done!

Part 4 ~ Adding the Spokes and Piecing the Top

Here

If you have missed any installments in this

Spider Web Quilt-Along,
 Links to all the steps may be found here! 

:)



Spider Web Quilt Along ~ Part 2 ~ Adding The Outer Border

Time to Add the Outer Borders!

When I was designing this as I sewed, I found a remanant of black mottled grunge type fabric in my stash of which I had about 1/2 yard.

I had a very small strip left afterwards,  about 1/2" ... so ...

 You may want to allow a little extra fabric (maybe 2/3 to 3/4 of a yard)
in case you have a cutting "oops" like I do sometimes
and need to cut any of the pieces twice.

 I did "audition" other fabrics ... a black solid, white solid

and purple solid (Kona Amethyst was the perfect match to the purple in the Boo Crew blocks)

I decided at this time that I wanted  a spooky looking black web
with white quilting thread. 

I chose the mottled black as it looked just right with the Boo Crew.

Your fabrics may pop with a different color web so try other ideas and pick the effect that looks best to your designer eye.

My quilty kitties and I used strips, sewed and cut afterwards.
If you are comfortable with this method of piecing, then sew for it ...

allowing about 6" between the triangles for the outer points of the web.

For these instructions, though,  
I am going to recommend that you ...

Cut:  4.5" strips
(for 40" WOF fabric you will need 3 strips)
and then
Subcut: 8 rectangles,  4.5" by 12.5" each.

Center each triangle on the strips an sew.

Press seams open as for squares.

Next Step - Part 3 HERE

Cutting and Sewing the Curves

 :)

Spider Web Quitalong ~ Part 1 ~ Materials and Getting Started

 

Spider Web Quilt-Along

 

No tricks ... 

(except the quilty "tricks and tips" kind)

... just treats!

 

Thanks to all who have posted kind comments and an interest in sewing my

 

Spider Web Table Quilt

that was featured in my "Wicked" Blog Hop post

HERE

 

I have had so much interest that I have decided to share a more detailed tutorial by holding this mini-quiltalong!

 

I will be adding posts on each step in the next few days, with the plan to have the entire project tutorial up by Sunday evening.

 

This is the first time I have ever held a quilt along on my blog so this will be a learn as I go experience for me as well as for those who are sewing.

If you have any questions, please feel free to post in comments or email me as we sew along.

 

Materials Needed:

80 2.5 inch squares (two mini-charm packs, a charm pack, strips, FQs or yardage ... or just use up scraps!)

1/2  - 2/3  yard of black (for web sashing and border and binding)

2 inch black circle for the center applique

30" square of backing fabric and batting

a 45 degree ruler (such as a Kaleido Ruler) 

 (if you do not have one, you could try using a straight ruler

and the 45 degree lines on your cutting mat)

a Quick Curve Ruler 

  (if you do not have one, you could try using a small plate

or other circle cutter)

Fabric Selection:

For your fabric squares, use a mix of lights to darks, small to medium prints.  I used three to four mini charms of each fabric but you could cut from 5-6 fat quarters or 2.5" strips if you wanted a less scrappy quilt.

 

Lay your 2.5" squares out in 8 groups of 10 squares as in rows as shown:

 

Row 1 : 1 square

Row 2 : 2 squares

Row 3 : 3 squares

Row 4 : 4 squares

Sew each section together by chain piecing the squares into the rows

and sewing the rows together to form 8 pyramids

 

 

I used my seam roller to press the seams open as I went along, then pressed all the pyramids with my iron before trimming.

 

 

Trim each pyramid into a triangle by aligning your 45 degree ruler in the center of the 1st row and making sure the 4th row is straight along a line on your ruler.

 

 

This is the what your trimmed sections will look like in your layout.

Move your scrappy triangles around until you have

the arrangement you want for your web,

 

Here are the links to the other installments:

 

Part 2 ~ Adding the Outer Border

 

Part 3 ~ Cutting the Curves /Adding the Border

 

Part 4 ~ Sashing and Piecing the Top

 

Part 5 ~ Quilting & Binding

 

Have fun sewing!

 

:)