MORE BLOCKS DONE

My relaxation time is making these blocks.

Patch as Patch Can....WEEK 6......
what does that mean? These patches are put in so precisely to make the pattern, there seems to be no 'patch as can' about this block. Can you see I boobed on the dark fabric, I used the wrong side sometimes...Oh well!!

My Lucky Stars...WEEK 7
Oh yeah! With 69 pieces to this 8" - yes I stuck to that size crazy person -I cannot see anything 'lucky' in it, only how it went together - surprisingly easy!!

Morning Star 2 - WEEK 8
I really enjoyed making this little block, well 12" block, I am very happy with the way it turned out.

Fancy Stripes - WEEK 9
hmm more like cheaters Log Cabin really, this was sooo quick to make, it fairly flew through the sewing machine.

Bears Tracks... WEEK 10
A lovely block cos it is to do with Bears. I collect soft teddies or ornament's of bears so was very happy this was in the pack to make. Are they coming or going?

Chimneys & Cornerstones... WEEK 11
Not a lot to say of this cos it was another speedy one to make, love the secondary pattern you get when you link it with Courthouse Steps though. Nice one!

The Queen's X... WEEK 13
hee hee she was probably cross someone put those little triangles in her square!!!

Slowly but surely, I am catching up. Having fun whilst doing so too. :-)
Is this OK to put several in one posting or should they all be separate??

Running in Place

I feel like such a slacker! I can't believe how easy it is to fall behind with these blocks. I've got waaayy too many projects going on but I don't seem to be actually finishing anything.





Here are weeks 9(Fancy Stripes), 11(Chimneys & Cornerstones), 12(Leap Frog), and 13(The Queen's X) all done using that scrap bin full of brights. I decided to make most of the blocks from now on from these fabrics and then add borders to make them all fit together for an eventual quilt for my granddaughter. I wasn't crazy about any of these blocks but they did go together fairly easily.


The 12" block from week#10 was Bear Tracks, a pattern I thought would look good done in those hard-to-work-with homespun fabrics. I've been making pillows from these and they look great on an old church pew I have. I find that the homespun fabric is getting a little easier to manage but I spray starch the heck out of it whenever I use it!

For a brief moment I was all caught up on FBP and then Spring Fever hit me and I fell behind again! Yard and house clean-up took center stage. At least the windows are clean so it's not so dark in the sewing room now! With a wild flurry of sewing today, I hope to finally get really and truly caught up so by next Friday I can do the block at a leisurely pace. Happy Mom's Day to all the moms in the party.

Catching Up

I finally made my Week 9 block. I think I'm getting tired of pink as my background. I'm certain I don't want all 52 blocks made with a pink background. I'll have to give this some thought.

the good and the bad

I'm back from my trip and finished up the last two blocks tonight. The first one I like a lot...

the second one, not so much! I wanted to use cherries again, so I converted this to a 9" size; I did the square in a square treatment for the center and flying geese on the sides, and I ripped, ripped, ripped but still didn't get the lines to match up very well. I think it would have been easier to get better results by using the original pattern directions for 16 HSTs -- but I don't know if I want to make it again!

Spring Stripes

Sorry! I have spring on my mind! If you have been to my blog lately you will have noticed that I put a photo of some crazy crocuses that came up and flowered in my garden! They are very early this year. Poor little confused crocuses! The rest of the yard is still covered with snow and the piles at the side of the road and driveway are too tall to see over, but those darn crocuses are smiling at the sunshine! They give me hope that spring is coming - sooner or later.

That is why I did my block in blues and yellow. Yes, it is yellow. I apologize for the photo. It didn't come out very well, but it is really a very nice soft yellow. This was an easy block. Can't believe I said that. All HST too. That would have totally scared me off a couple of months ago. But now I find it easy. This Block Party thing has been great! Thanks Quilt Pixie!!!

Rebecca's Fancy Stripes

Piece of Cake!  I changed the color placement in the corners and made a three color block instead of a 2 color block.  I made the block in rows instead of four patches and this helped to keep the seam bulk down as I was better able to place the seams the right direction.  I made a ten inch block.  I have picked out some dark solid navy for the sashing to make a quilt.

2nd try

I decided I really did like this week's block as an idea -- I think it'd be a really cute little quilt worked up; Having looked at how Heather cut seam bulk by making a square inside a square, adding flying geese and then HST in the corners got me thinking...

Original thought: make a striped piece of blue/yellow/blue and cut triangles from it to add onto the centre square. Realized I'd loaned out my triangle ruler, so thought a little further....

Final Plan: cut centre square, add strips around it. Trim to square!

Sooooooo easy, so many fewer seams; so much less lining up :-) Same great effect.

Nice an' Easy Stripes...

This one was easy. I liked that ... didn't much care for the design, but it would make a nice two-fabric quilt. Too bad I don't have more of the flowered fabric. Note to Self - don't buy fat quarters, they're toooo small. Now what to do with this block? Is it doomed to be an "Orphan Square"?

Brenda's scrappy week 9

I decided to go scrappy with this one to see if I could pull it off. I dug into my 3.5 inch square box and came up with eight red prints and three medium blues. That made my HSTs only 3 1/8 inches and the whole square is 11 1/4 unfinished. I'm with the Heather-- I don't see the point of the HSTs for every block. I like the effect, but I'd rather make a whole quilt of larger HSTs than one block with 16 of them. But my precision is improving, and I don't hate HSTs as much as I used to. What did the rest of you do to eliminate bulky seams on this one?

Heather - Week 9

I liked making this block. It is quick and easy. I did the center as a square with corners added and then did flying geese units for most of the rest of the HSTs so I didn't have all the seams. I'm not crazy about my fabric choices now that it is done. They looked a lot better together before I cut them out.

Em's block #9

One more block done. Yea!! This one was quick an easy. A real plus. I don't think I should have used the stripe. One because I couldn't get them all going in the right direction. Two I didn't quite have enough so I had to piece it and I lost some of the bright pink stripe. But since we are just using scraps for this project. And these two were already cut into the right size strip. They were the ones that found there way into this cute little block. I agree with quilt pixie this would make a fun quilt. Might have to add it to the list.

Fancy a Baby Quilt

Had a great time making this block! It was peaceful and stress free. Just what I needed for today! Only 8 more blocks to go to make a cute baby girl quilt.

I will be back to the pinks and blacks after Easter.

not that fancy....

rather boring to do, but it did turn out well. I can imagine a whole quilt of these blocks looking rather fun, but I'm not sure I'd bother making this pattern with half square triangles if I were making a whole quilt.

Fancy Stripes Meets Spring

I decided to just look through my stash of pre-cut squares and see if I could find anything spring like since our weather here went back into the deep freeze. It went from a high of +9C (+48F) in the early afternoon and started dropping to an overnight low of -24C (-11F). I'm trying to encourage spring to come back.

I made an 8" block instead of a 12" block because the squares I selected were only 3" in size and that's OK. Funny how in a previous week I was increasing the size of the block and now I'm decreasing it. I'm pleased with my points and the overall block.

Week 9

So, I didn't tell you there was going to be a test did I? I didn't know myself... honest. But this week's block is a test of whether you've mastered piecing HST's (half square triangles) together well -- whatever you're method!

The up side is there aren't a lot of small pieces, its a 12" block when finished, and each sub unit can be easily squared up before assembly... The downside is the block is simply 16 HST arranged together...

Fancy stripes is built upon a square inside a square. I'm hoping we'll all find it a relatively straight forward week.