Girt By Sea Quilt Along

I’ve been absent without warn­ing again (ser­i­ously, this reno could kill me yet!) but today I’m here, present and accoun­ted for, to share my round in the Girt By Sea Quilt Along.

I could­n’t be prouder to be involved with this pro­ject which was organ­ised by the girls at Mod­ern Makers Retreat.   The Girt By Sea quilt is was designed by Jodi God­frey, Keera Job, Sedef Imer, Alyce Blyth, Emma Jean Jansen, and myself and, it cel­eb­rates all that we love about Australia.

For the final bor­der of the quilt I designed a simple friend­ship braid style bor­der to rep­res­ent one of the things I like best about Aus­tralia.… it’s people and our beau­ti­ful mul­ti­cul­tur­al heart.    No mat­ter when or how we got to be here I know that we’re all grate­ful to live in such a beau­ti­ful place.   We truly are the lucky ones -:)

If you want to be in the run­ning for this months prize just upload a pic­ture of your pro­gress to Ins­tagram using the hasht­ag #girt­bysea­quilt and one lucky per­son will win a little prize pack from me!     Check out the full T&C’s on the Mod­ern Makers blog.

Of course, there is still time to join in the fun if this is the first you’ve heard of the Girt by Sea quilt.   If you’re look­ing for the pat­tern you can head over to Craftsy or Mod­ern Makers to grab one now.

Just before I pop off again I thought I’d share a couple of tips to help with mak­ing the final border.

• If you don’t have one already it’s worth grabbing a Blo­c­Loc half square tri­angle ruler.   The half square tri­angles (HST) in the pat­tern are made using the two at a time meth­od so you’ll have a bit of trim­ming to do.  The Bloc Loc ruler makes that trim­ming feel like fun.…honestly!
• Press the bor­der rows in oppos­ite dir­ec­tions (see image below).   It’ll make things much easi­er when you come to sew the two rows together.
• When you join two HST’s the ‘point’ (inset in image below) should be ¹⁄₄″ from the edge of the fab­ric.    That ¹⁄₄″ spa­cing becomes the seam allow­ance on the next join and ensures you end up with a nice pointy point.

Have a great week!