The Bee in my Bonnet Row Along...Row 11 - Sweet Little Sewing Spools!!!

Good morning cute row along people!!!

YaY!!!

We are up to row 11 already ...

can you believe it?

For today's lesson we will be making a row of 

sweet little sewing spools!

Of course we need to add spools to represent all of us 

rowing and sewing together:)

The spools are a great opportunity to use up

a few bits and bobs that you might

 have leftover from the previous rows.

The sewing and cutting is

 easy peasy fast and breezy:)

You will be finished in no time at all!

Okay girls...

Plug in your irons...

Wind up your bobbins...

 and let's do a speedy little row!

GO!!!

Cut your spools and background.

This is what you need to sew one spool...

Sew a strip to each side of the thread.

Press towards the thread like this.

Now add the top and bottom...

press away from the thread.

And just like that...your first spool is complete!

Didn't I tell you they were fast?

(I know that the gray pieces look a little large right now)

So I laid background strips around the block overlapping by 1/4"

 so that you can see what each spool will look like

 when sewn together into the quilt....

I didn't want you to think that I made the gray pieces too large...

you can see that the proportion will be better

 when the rows are all together:)

Now that you have made one spool...

pick up the speed and chain piece the remaining spools.

Remember...

 side strips on first...

And spool top and bottoms on last:)

WOW!

You are already nearing the finish line!

Sew them into a row with a sashing strip between each spool...

press towards the sashing:)

Remember to cut the background strips for each end 

a little wider than needed so that you can trim down 

your spool row to measure 

 just like all of the other rows.

  

Now smile because your Row 11 is complete and you didn't even break a sweat:)

How fast can you sew your sweet little row of  spools???

The race is on!!!

Have a quilty kind of day my friends:)

xx

Lori

***EDIT

The instructions for the Row Along Quilt will now be in my new book

"Quilty Fun"

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