My daughter-in-law bought me a Tilda book called Hot Chocolate Sewing, which contains lots of small items, as well as quilt ideas to make.
As some of you know, I am making a large English Paper Piecing project, using pentagons which have a triangle to elongate it at the bottom, and this ‘coaster’ design used the shame shape.
So I made a template with a dotted line, and after joining two strips of fabric, cut some with the point facing one way and some with the point facing the other way, to give an ‘alternate fabrics’ effect.
I realised after making it that on the wrong side, I should have cut the joined points at the center down to avoid bulk as there is a ‘lump’ in the middle now, but it won’t affect the use of it, so I left it as it was after I had already joined both sides together and stitched around the edge.
Carolynne P