One of my jobs during the long weekend was to work on the
blocks for this month’s bee. Last month, I made the Swoon blocks for the first
time which was a nice pleasure to do. I
can’t wait to find a fabric line I love and make some more of them!
For September, our task is to make blocks for a boy using a
tutorial from Little Miss Shabby. If you are looking for some good tutorials to
use up those scraps, take a look at her ideas for using them up.
They really help make a dint in the pile of
growing scraps that all quilters accumulate unless they are absolutely ruthless
with how much they will keep. Me I am not the ruthless type!
LOL.
Unfortunately being separated from my scrap bin and only
having a small assortment of fabrics with me in barracks and most of them
assigned to projects, I had to go and get some fabrics to do this month’s
blocks. Naughty, I know cause we are to
use what we have in the stash, but I think I will be forgiven due to my unusual
circumstances.
We were asked to make two blocks using colors of blue,
green, brown, orange and red. I had to
search hard for fabrics that were more in the modern end of the spectrum and
let me tell you it wasn’t easy when faced with mostly country insipid kinda
material options.
Since there wasn’t a
sample posted I’m not sure if the tones are what is hoped for but they look
pretty good to me. I am hoping with the rest of the groups blocks they won’t
stand out too much.
As for the pattern, I certainly would use this pattern again. I can see using up a pile of floral fat
quarters that I have lurking in my sewing room. I really like what the solid white does to
make a secondary pattern. You know this might be just the right pattern to use
up all those bright batiks that I have and use black instead of white to make
the second pattern.
