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Monday, December 30, 2013

Making Kisses

This title reminds me of my daughter at about 3 years old. She would wiggle her lips around and then give a kiss... she had to make one first... She was a character right from the beginning. So in memory of my darling daughter we will make some kisses for the niece she will never know.

Start with a pattern you can get for free at:
QuiltMaker Magazine


Theirs is for 6" blocks and I made mine smaller and made up a Master sheet so I could make copies of it and save some paper.
 

 Cut your copies into single blades (1/2 of a kiss).


Start by choosing your colors and pinning on #1. (#2, 3 and 5 are background pieces. #1 and 4 are kiss parts.) I'm using pink or white for the kiss parts.
(Make sure the #1 piece is pretty side out on the unprinted side.)

Place the #2 piece, (green and white print) face up, and leaving enough seam allowance. Set your machine for small stitches. (On mine I use 15 stitches to the inch.) Now back stitch at beginning, sew along the line, then back stitch at the end of the seam. Easy-Peasy. 
 
 Seam sewn - trim seam allowance to 1/4". (I use a scissors - and eyeball it. It's much faster that way.)
 

 
 Then press the seam (to set your stitches) and flip the #2 piece and press again
 
Now trim off the strip of #2 fabric... Never trim until it is flipped.

 I make the two pieces at one time... it's faster that way.

Now the #3 piece. Sewn, seam allowance trimmed, pressed, flipped and pressed again. I usually put a pin in this tail (top left) but I didn't show that part on a picture.
 
 Now sewing on #4.  Here's that pin. .. to hold that tail from floppy around. 
 
 
When your two halves are done you can make hugs, or turn the pieces around and....


make a kiss.


 Here's our block on the design wall... just pinned - not yet sewn together. I might want to mix them up a bit before I sew.

(27 more blocks - 54 more blades to go)
 
The block just made is the lower left.
 
Linking up to Confessions of a Fabric Addict... see the sidebar for the location.
 
 
Next time I'll show my technique for sewing the blocks together.
 
Hugs, (and kisses)
Terri