Geta Grama is a favorite designer of mine and I’ve been looking forward to her block for months. I knew it would be a challenge, and she didn’t disappoint. It might be applique, but as usual she kicked it up a notch. First, it has 17 pieces in a 6″ block, but it’s how the…
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Block 46 Twirl Time!
What’s wrong with this finished picture? Or put another way – theoretically…if I person accidentally made a rotated image of the pattern, is it still the same pattern or is it a new one? My apologies to the wonderful designer, the very talented Sarah Maxwell. I had this bright idea that I would paper piece…
Block #45 – Sewing Nut
I’m caught up – again! At least for now. This is another applique block if that isn’t obvious. When I first saw this block, I just took in what it looked like – a squirrel – and couldn’t imagine how on earth she came up with this as a design. Then I saw the title…
Block# 44 – Stitch in the Garden
Ack! I nearly destroyed this block before I ever started on it. This was almost entirely embroidery so I used the same Sulky stabilizer that I’ve used previously. This one calls for some applique on the 3 spools so I used Heat ‘n Bond on the back of the fabric. And then….I don’t know if…
Block #38 – Vintage Flower Basket
I just knew that gold rick rack was going to come in handy some day! That’s left over from a Halloween costume from years ago and I had enough left at the time that I couldn’t just throw it away. And it doesn’t look nearly as shiny after all these years, which is a good…
Block 43 – Pincushion Love
I really need to wash my cutting board! But not today. I really, really like how my little pincushion block came out. I don’t have any tiny buttons on hand so I’ll add the 2 straight pins to it the next time I’m at a store that sells buttons. This is an appliqued block and…
Block 42 – Pencils
Whew! An easy paper pieced block. Jane always has challenging blocks that really stretch my growth, but this week I saw her design and realized she gave us all a break. These always look a bit “off” when the design lines up with the edge, but when it’s sewn with the seam allowance it will…
Block 39 – Balls in the Air
I thought block 39 would be faster to complete than 38; now that it’s done, I’m not so sure about that. There are some teeny tiny pieces again on this one and that added up to a lot of bulk on some of the seams, making it almost impossible to get a perfect match linng…
Block 41 – Sew South
Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater. Well, kind of. I glue basted a bunch of hexies a few months ago and decided to make a Patchwork of the Crosses quilt instead. I can’t explain why, but the regular hexagons just don’t have that “wow” factor to me. I knew I wasn’t probably ever going to do anything…
Block 40 – Flights of Friendship
I no sooner said that I was going to finish block 38 and 39 before 40….when I changed my mind. I did some guessing on how much time it would take to complete each one and realized I had enough time to finish this one from start to finish. Something tells me tomorrow is going…
Block 37 – Dashing by Chocolate
My apologies to anyone that says “that’s not a churn dash block!”. You’re right. My mom always had a lot of issues with her stomach and would say her stomach was churning. That word just brings back memories of my mom not feeling well so I switched the color layout but kept the pattern. This…
Block 36 – Inchy Hexagon Club
I hope this post finds you well! I’ve been offline for the past few days. It started off with a medical emergency for a family member – but if there’s a bright spot in that story, it’s that I had time to take my bag of stuff to work on patchwork of the crosses while…