Rin by Machine Applique ~ Block #2

I machine appliqued my second block made from Carolyn Friedlander's Rin quilt pattern. The first one is here that I made during the Rin Along hosted by Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs and Cindy at Hyacinth Quilt Designs.

When you pull fabric from your stash, does it ever evoke a memory of where you were when you purchased it or possibly who you were with?  This certainly happened with me when I was choosing the background fabric for this block.  I know exactly where I was.  It was 2015 and I was in Austin, TX at my very first QuiltCon.  I had no idea how I would use this fabric, but I knew I wanted some.

Architextures was Carolyn's very first fabric line with Robert Kaufman and this is Ledger in Ivory.

For the rings I'm using another Cotton and Steel print, Add It Up in Close Your Eyes.  Although it reads as solid black from a distance, I just love the little blue plus signs you can see up close.

I did something a little differently this time. I actually cut out the entire outer ring and the outer circle of the inner ring with my 45mm rotary cutter.  A few times, I cut a little further than I should have in the V of scallop, but I think it will be fine.  You can read all about my fusing process in the first blog post.

As I have time, I plan to make more blocks.  I plan to use all Carolyn Friedlander prints for the background fabrics and will use various blacks from different designers for the rings.

Excited to have one more Rin block done by zig zag satin stitch on the machine, I'm linking to Let's Bee Social with Lorna at Sew Fresh Quilts.

Rin by Machine Applique

I wanted to give the Rin, Carolyn Friedlander's applique pattern, a try but didn't want tackle all those large circles and curves by hand applique, so I decided use my familiar stand-by method, machine applique using a zigzag satin stitch.  And here is the result.

The background is the Tree Stripe in Iron from her Friedlander fabric collection (see Sunday this Stash post) and the applique rings are black and white plus signs by Cotton + Steel.

I first decided to make a paper template and made sure I could fold it according to the instructions in the pattern and that worked out fine.  See Cheryl's (Meadow Mist Designs) folding tips in her post here.

Next, I used this Creative's Grid Circle Quilting Ruler (affiliate link) to draw the circles to size on my blank paper which had been folded and then unfolded to establish the center or pivot point.

You can draw a circle up to 22" in diameter with this ruler at 1/8" increments, so it worked great.

I then took the individual paper templates and using the circle(s) I had drawn as a guide for placement, I drew around the template each number of times to complete the applique ring pattern.

To reinforce the template, I applied scotch tape to the edge where I would be tracing and cut the template 1/8" shy since I would not need the turn under allowance used for hand applique.

I decided to make one master paper template which included all the different Rin templates except one that similar to another. I could then trace the desired ring template shapes for each block onto the fusible web without having multiple templates.

These are the rings for the next block drawn onto the fusible web.  I like Soft Fuse Premium (affiliate link) because it's lightweight, doesn't add bulk to the applique and it's really not a fussy fusible at all.

So all I need to do is fuse it to the back of my ring fabric, cut on the solid line and fuse to the right side of my background fabric.

For the machine applique, I used 100% cotton 50 wt. Aurifil 2692, a pure black, for the top thread.  I like to use a finer polyester thread in the bobbin like Dual Duty Fine on the purple spool.

Here's a close up of my first Rin block done by machine applique with a zigzag satin stitch.  And for the best results, don't forget to use iron-on tear-away stablizer underneath your applique before stitching as mentioned in this blog post.

And here's one more close up of the Rin block pictured with the thread for perspective.

Now I need to pick out fabrics for my 2nd Rin block.  It's not to late for you to complete just one block to be entered in the drawing for some great prizes in the Rin Along hosted by Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs and Cindy at Hyacinth Quilt Designs.  Why not give the Rin block a try by machine?

Linking to:

Let's Bee Social with Lorna at Sew Fresh Quilts

Needle and Thread Thursday with Kelly at My Quilt Infatuation

Tips and Tutorials Tuesday #21 with Yvonne at Quilting Jetgirl

Sunday Stash

I was lucky enough to recently win a giveaway from Kelly at My Quilt Infatuation when she was participating in the Benartex Summer Mini Quilt Blog Hop.  I won a fat quarter bundle of Patio Splash by Kanvas Studios for Benartex.  I just love the saturated colors.

You can find a link to Kelly's free quilt pattern, Sliding Geese Mini in her blog post here.

By now, I'm sure you heard about the Rin Along going on hosted by Cheryl of Meadow Mist Designs and Cindy of Hyacinth Quilt Designs.  It's a quilt along using Carolyn Friedlander's quilt pattern, Rin which can be found here.

I resisted for a long time, but decided to purchase the pattern and check it out.  I have a long term hand applique project started already, so I thought I might give it a try using a zigzag satin stitch by machine.  After all, I love machine applique.

I found the Tree Stripe in Iron from her Friedlander fabric collection at a local quilt shop and thought it would be a great background.

There are some awesome prizes up for grabs and we only have to make one block to be in the drawing.  I'm hoping I'll win this Auriful 80 wt 10 piece thread collection by Carolyn Friedlander.

And for fear of running out of black and white, I ordered 2 yards of Squared by Rashida Coleman Hale for Cotton & Steel from I Love Fabric (and it was on sale).  I had used most of what I had in the Sew Easy Schlep Bag I made last month.

I'll be linking to Main Crush Monday with Beth at Cooking up Quilts.