Yay! I’m caught up until tomorrow when the next block comes out! Cutting this one out was easy – I don’t know why I kept putting it off. Actually yes I do; at the time I just needed an “applique break”. Is there such a thing? If not, there is now. Those are some teeny…
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Block #56 – At Home Anywhere
I was determined to to catch up on the Splendid Sampler blocks, because #60 comes out this Thursday and I want to end the week with a nice even row. I went to grab the template I had printed out a week ago and thought “hey, that’s a blog post!”. Do you see in the…
Block 59 – Circle of Friendship
I had 2 goals this weekend. Either complete both “past due” blocks for the Splendid Sampler that I haven’t done yet, or finish one and the one for Sunday. Second, finish the machine quilting block – as in, quilt it. The final weekend score…. 0 out of 2. Oops. I did however at least complete…
Block 58 – Homeward Bound
First things first. I saw that our LQS had posted a photo of the flamingo fabric and immediately started thinking “what can I make out of that?”. Why, more pillowcases of course! A friend of mine has also been making pillowcases lately and she texted me a picture of one she had done that had…
Block 57 – Starting Point
I decided to go out of order again with the Splendid Sampler blocks, skipping temporarily past blocks 55 and 56 which are both applique and going straight for block 57. I actually really like the last two blocks and I’ll get them knocked out here before too long but one thing I know about myself…
Block #54 – Shell
I started to write two blog posts, just so I could name this one “Harry Chapin Quilting Design”. I slept on it and decided the way I wanted to quilt this was straight vertical lines, then straight lines at 60 degree angles to match the large triangles on here, and finally different sizes of circles…
Block #53 – Whirling in Circles
I finished the pinwheel in this and thought – well, this is about as good as anything I’ve sewn; I think I’ll just post a picture of this and call it a day! I was trying to find 3 fabrics that pretty equally contrasted with each other while still sticking with some of the darker…
Block #52 – Coneflower
This one was downright easy! And the one after this is patchwork so I’m hoping it’s also in the easy category. Block # 52 is an appliqued block if that isn’t obvious. Like the ones before it, I cut out the paper copy of each piece, then traced around each piece onto the Heat ‘n…
Block 51 – Bee Happy
If you’re sewing the Splendid Sampler blocks, it will be apparent that my block # 51 is missing the hexie flower. I can’t find my freezer paper anywhere which I need for the tiny hexies. But the rest is done finally. The rest of this is supposed to look like a bee. Hmm…. Actually I…
Block 50 – Flights of Fancy
Halfway done! I was afraid we might celebrate with the hardest block yet, but that paper pieced dress still holds that distinction. I pieced this one per the directions to see if I’m at better now with those 1″ pieces than I was when I started. The jury is still out. The first thing I…
Block 49 – Summer’s Gift
I counted my darker vs. lighter blocks for the Splendid Sampler over the weekend and of 48 at the time, I think only 20 were darker. I’m trying to keep an even balance overall for the quilt which means I’m going to make a concerted effort to work in more of the darker fabrics where…
Block 48 – Whim
‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ I took one look at today’s block and let out a “woo hoo!”. It’s a beginner’s paper piecing block. I could probably knock this one out in 10 minutes! Except I didn’t catch that I had a piece of fabric that didn’t lay flat…