Some days........

Yesterday started off foggy and wet.  After having coffee and hangin out with the puppy I decided to get the show on the road!  A brief cleanup and then upstairs to the studio to take on some long over due projects.

First up......the leftover blocks from CQA.  These blocks were leftovers from the big block challenge and I must say there was a reason they were leftovers!  Quite the sad group if I do say so myself.  The challenge for me is to make a quilt top that will go to one of the gals in the VMQG for quilting and then it will be passed on to a refugee group.  What an amazing way to play it forward and I really want to be a part of it!

I should have taken a photo of the original blocks.  What to do with them?????  I hummed and hawed for a while.  Unsure of just what my plan of attack would be and then I thought " They're too big, too messy, too colourful and there's no place for the eye to rest."

Out came the rotary cutter and I started cutting.  Each one got chopped into 4 and suddenly they were looking less "OMG" and more "hmmmm, these are really interesting!" 

To put them all together, block beside block, would have been a horrible mess so I decided to put a sashing strip on 2 sides.  A nice dark blue seemed to be the trick as the blocks are mostly purples, pinks and blue combinations.  At the moment they are on the design wall on point but as I type this I am thinking that maybe I will do something different.  Because the blue will add continuity to the plethora of colour I feel that I need to keep them consistent so chain piecing here I come.

I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to figure it all out as time is of the essence but I am very pleased that I got this far.  Now the bad news........you know that you are out of sewing practise when chopping up blocks causes you to break a blood vessel in your thumb and turn your thumb an amazing shade of purple.  Man!  Does it hurt!

It's not going to stop me from completing the top however!  Picture to follow.

"Morgan the Magnificent"

 

 

This is baby Morgan and with all babies, I figured that he needed a quilt.  The quilt is super simple as I doubt that he will really care about the design and I also doubt as to the longevity of the quilt once he gets his new little puppy teeth into it.  His new parents are great outdoors people so the theme is greens, outdoors, deer, bears and cabins.  Having his name appliqued on the top seemed fitting.

As you can see he cozied up to it right away!

Block of the Month!

 

Here is my contribution to the block of the month.  Just a simple paper pieced square in a square block.  The center is fussy cut.  I love the little fox guys.

I entered 4 blocks and couldn't believe my luck!

 

I WON!

 

The choice of how to put them together is up to me and after a lot of consideration, this is what I came up with.

I felt the nod to the VMQG, my tribe, would be fitting.

 

Here is the results.  I LOVE it!

 

It is going to be going up in the hallway, outside my quilt studio.  Every time I walk into that space I will be greeted by 50 quilters, cheering me on.  The warm and fuzzy feelings are awesome. 

Thanks to everyone that made a block.