Small Design Board

This is something that I thought a lot about making but just never did it until now.  I seem to be always jumping up and down from my sewing machine, (not that it is a bad thing to do) so when I saw this on another blog I decided to make one for myself.  I used her idea but made mine a little different.  You can see hers HERE.

I cut a piece of Styrofoam

13 x 13 since a lot of blocks

are finished at 12 inches.

Then I cut a piece of white flannelette

larger than my square.

Then I ran hot glue along around the edge

of the flannelette to stick it to the

Styrofoam.

Make sure you have something to rest your

glue gun on like a piece of paper

so that the glue doesn't go on your

cutting mat.

Nicely secured all around with

glue.

The right side.  It looks a little askew

but it could be just my picture

taking.

It didn't take me long to put it to use.

The idea is to lay out the block

on the design block and carry

it to the sewing machine so that it can

sewn together with very little

interruption.

Block #11 from Cranton Village Quilt Works

Block of the Month.

I didn't like doing this block.  The instructions were very poor.  Everything was cut on the bias and sewn together and that meant no sizing up of the square.  There were no final sizes for any of the blocks, you had to rely on your own judgement to decide what size each block should be.  This was the worst block from this series.  You had to be sure to sew the scantest quarter inch seam ever and then the final rows were sewn together with a regular quarter inch seam.