Bright coloured squares and rectangles stitched together with a zigzag stitch

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stitch Along Sunday.

Well, I missed doing the April Stitch Along but it was just crazy here at Quilts by Jen and I wouldn’t have been able to keep up. May is going to be a bit slower so I can participate in Stitch Along Sundays again.

Notice though I am almost a week late with this post but I will be all caught up my tomorrow and back on track.

This week’s rules can be found on Ruth’s blog – May Week 1 Rules. And don’t forget to check out the May Gallery to see what everyone else is up to this month.

The rules said to create a background from scraps using either light coloured fabrics or bright coloured fabrics. I guess that means I need to go and dig in my scrap bins – oh this is going to be hard since I don’t really do scrappy very well – controlled scrappy yes but not true scrappy.

Let’s see what I come up with.

I still had the scraps that I used for one of my mug rugs, Rainbow Steps sitting on the table so decided to make the background for this piece as a bright background. The fabric scraps are definitely bright.

Bright coloured scraps of fabric

Some bright scraps

First I cut a piece of fusible non woven stabilizer the size needed. Well, I made it a tad bit larger so I had room to square off at the end. It is 9″ x 12 ½″. This is a stabilizer that I bought when I was living in Australia – slowly but surely I will get it used up.

A fusible stabilizer that is non woven

Fusible non-woven stabilizer

I just used the bright pieces of fabric as they were since they were already cut into squares and rectangles – keep it simple I said to myself.

Several bright coloured piece of fabric

Fabric pieces on ironing board

Placement of the pieces was rather random on the stabilizer and once the stabilizer was covered I fused the fabric in place.

Covering up the stabilizer with bright fabric pieces

Placing the pieces

Since I didn’t overlap the fabric pieces I had to use a close zigzag stitch to cover up the white showing through from the back. I used a variegated thread with a stitch width of 4.0 and length of 0.4 to cover all the raw edges.

Half the stitching done

Stitching done horizontally.

Vertical stitching added.

Bright coloured squares and rectangles stitched together with a zigzag stitch

Stitching completed

Now to pick a dark fabric – that’s going to be a challenge with this bright background to have something that shows up and stands out.

I’ll do some auditioning and reveal my pick tomorrow.

Happy Quilting!

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