I have lots to share with you this week! First a finished product: An ipad cover for Memaw. My three year old daughter kept asking if I was going to give Memaw my ipad, haha.
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| Plane Jane Ipad cover for Memaw |
I also finished two blocks for the Farmer’s Wife Quilt Along. Only 100 or so more to go. Hahaha!
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| Week 6 of the FWQAL, Blocks 11 and 12, Broken Dishes and Broken Sugar Bowl (And I need to start taking real pictures instead of pictures with my phone. 🙂 ) |
This week I was very happy to work with my grey fabric. The Broken Dishes block (the light grey block on top) gave me the most trouble. Most of my concentration was fixated on getting the little triangles and seams to match up. I finished triumphantly and photographed it (with my phone) and the realized I had sewn it together wrong. After much moaning and groaning to my mother and a little break, I ripped it apart and redid it. Correctly. *ish*It’s not perfect, but I’ll take it. Given that my blocks are only 4 by 4 inches, I guess I need to get comfortable with imperfection. Ha! (I’m there, don’t worry!)
Here are all my little perfectly imperfect lovelies:
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| All my little blocks together |
I also made another Katie’s Choice Block using my blue Amy Butler Charm packs. Light and Fun!
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| Blue Katie’s Choice. I think this is my favorite. |
And as if I need another project, I’m contemplating joining the Kaleidoscope Quilt Along. But only if I find fabric I love. It would be for my son, so I want to use this FQ pack of blues I bought for him. In my mind I like the idea of using blue solids for the Kaleidoscope pieces and grey tone-on-tone or grey-on-white fabrics for the background pieces.
These are the fabrics I have pulled so far:
What do you think? I am not quite sure. I like it, but I’m not sure how the lighter blue values would work out. An alternative would be to use the darker values of the blue (and grey?) for the kaleidoscope pieces and the lighter values of the blue (and/or grey?) for the background.
Hm…
pretty pictures! i like the blues and grays for the kaleidoscope project.