Quilt Abecedary: F

Uppercase and Lowercase F/f

I start by cutting my strips 1 1/2″ wide, laying them out like I think a lowercase f should look.

First up is the construction of the HST in the upper corner, using scissors as I go. I find that in wonky quilting, scissors often can be more helpful than always getting up to the workspace and using a rotary cutter. I cut off the corner and pressed it to the dark.

I’ve joined up the sections. I always press so that the dark letter part of the block sits “on top” of the background–that means pressing always to the dark. It kind of looks more "f"-ey now.

This is lovely skinny little letter–easy, peasy.

Remembering the hassles I had when I kept making my capitol E too small, I laid out with 2 1/2″ strips of fabric, with a 4″ by 4 1/2″ block in that lower right. I know I can always trim them down.

I trim as I go–that center arm (remember your typography terms) became narrower, maybe it’s now about 1 1/4″–I didn’t really measure but went by how it looked.