9 BLOCKS FROM ME

9 BLOCKS FROM ME

Phew!  Got my blocks done early this month.  I kept procrastinating last month and missed out.  Now I think I’ll go make myself some batik curved rails.  All the blocks looked so beautiful. I used the August Violet pattern in a quilt for a friend.  She went on one of the 4 week life changing experiences, and we surprised her with a quilt full of encouragement when she returned home.  On my violet I wrote,...

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October Blocks!

October Blocks!

Here are my five blocks. I took the opportunity to do liberated blocks this month. I’ve been dying to try it and this month’s “choose your own pattern” was a perfect chance to give it a go....

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unliberated blocks

unliberated blocks

I’m a relatively new quilter and got started on the block lotto within about a year of starting to quilt, so I started making “liberated” blocks before I had ever made the traditional versions. So these blocks are the traditional versions of log cabin, Chinese coin, and shoofly. However the coffee cup is my liberated invention and experiment with some of the bias techniques and 2-layer cutting Sophie has presented us. The...

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A Reminder about October Fabric Guidelines

The fabric guidelines this month say: COLORS AND FABRICS Your blocks MUST contain BLUE and CREAM fabrics.  If you like, you may also add Tan or Brown fabrics . . .  or not.     All fabrics may be solid or tone-on-tone (TOT) prints.  A TOT fabric is a print where all the colors are different values/shades of the same color, so cream-on-cream, blue-on-blue, brown-on-brown.  If there is some black or cream in the...

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9 BLOCKS FROM ME

9 BLOCKS FROM ME

Phew!  Got my blocks done early this month.  I kept procrastinating last month and missed out.  Now I think I’ll go make myself some batik curved rails.  All the blocks looked so beautiful. I used the August Violet pattern in a quilt for a friend.  She went on one of the 4 week life changing experiences, and we surprised her with a quilt full of encouragement when she returned home.  On my violet I wrote,...

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September Mailing Info Sent

If you made lotto blocks in September, you should have email from me with all the info you need to send your blocks to one/some of the winners.If you didn’t receive email from me, let me know and I’ll resend it. You might want to check your spam folder first, if you have one–when you send email to 70 people, it does look a little bit like spam 😉Blogged via email from my iPhone

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