And Jill came Tumbling After....

I have been enjoying making more tumbling blocks in Civil War reproduction fabrics.

I wanted lots of variety, so the first step was going back to the scrap pile from my "Long Time Gone" quilt and pulling out any usable pieces:

From the darks and mediums, I cut diamond shapes and from the lights I cut triangles.  Then I laid them out in rows.

Keeping all those little pieces in line while I sewed the rows required a system.  I slid the pieces from the first row on the right over to my sewing machine and worked on them first:

I sewed triangle/diamond pairs, and then placed them back in order.

Then, one pair at a time, I pressed the seams open with a mini iron and a small ironing mat.

It was wonderful not to have to keep getting up and going to the ironing board to press all those seams, and sewing each row one at a time made it easy to keep track of each piece in the puzzle. Over the course of a couple of days, I had completed the following:

As I said in my previous post, I have a plan for these little tumbling blocks.  I want to make some additional units to my "Long Time Gone" quilt to make it into a twin size.

The Tumbling Blocks will become the center portion of an additional row that will cover the pillow area when on the bed.  I have to decide on two more patterns to fill in the other sections. I know that at least one of them will involve rows of little houses.  More to come...