October bom has arrived!

Yay! October BOM!

Hello!  thanks again for being so patient and understanding with me!  This months was running late then I had the call from the nursing home to say that a bed was available for my mum.   Hence I have been a bit busy organising things for her move in tomorrow.  

Now that is under control I thought I would do something for me tonight and sew.  So I went to the Bom fabric stash and I chose these two fabrics for this block.  Earlier this week I purchased the EQ Mini and from the small amount I have played with it, I'm really loving it.

So lets get on with this block.   I have chosen the flying squares block this month.  We will learn how to do a partial seam and still have heaps of fun and whip this block up quickly.

My fabrics for this block

Now lets cut from background 2 strips at 2 7/8" and 2 strips at 2 7/8" from the main fabric.

Then from the background cut 4 rectangles at 2 7/8" x 7 11/16" and 5 squares at  2 7/8"

from the main fabric cut 8 squares at 2 7/8"

layout of flying squares block

lay out your fabrics and remember to check it if you have directional fabric so you have them running all the one way unless you like a messy haphazard look.

getting ready to stitch

We will sew one 2 7/8" square of main fabric onto the background rectangle and then we will sew the 9 patch block together.  Remember webbing is a great idea with the 9 patch blocks.

all outside strips are sewn and the centre 9 patch

Our next part of this block is to sew the outside strips to the inner 9 patch block and we start this with a partial seam.  As below I will start sewing this strip on from about 1/3 down from the start of the seam.  See the next few photos.

sewing the partial seam

starting of the partial seam

sewn and pressed

Take the next strip to be stitch and lay it on top of the block and sew the complete seam and repeat until all four strips are on the block.

ready for 3 strip to be sewn

preparing to sew

all four strips sewn on

Now we will finish the partial seam.  Lay the first strip back onto the centre of the block and sew from the start of the block to where you started sewing at the beginning and press.

about to sew the last part of the partial seam

sewing the seam.

completed flying Squares block

I am really happy with this block.  I hope you enjoy it also.  Below is a shot of all of our blocks so far.  Isn't this looking great.  I will try and do a post soon about how we can lay these blocks out for different layouts of sashing or just joining cleverly.  

all 10 blocks so far

Enjoy this months block and the partial seam!  Always take time to fondle fabric and sew and then you will have the finer things in life!  Take care and lookout for the next blog post not so far away.

cheers for being great followers and if you are new to my blog, I hope you have enjoyed it!

Wendy!