You will be so proud of me. After all this time of watching and learning and taking notes you will see that I have been a diligent pupil. Some will even say that I am a little crazy, well, we shall see. I have been busy working on the hexagon bag pattern by
Brigitte Giblin and I am just waiting for the frame to arrive so that I can finish it.
After all the cutting out I was left with a box full of snippings, such tiny pieces that were destined for the doggy cushions. This dear Jane is where you will be so proud of me. I know that you would not throw those scraps out, oh no! You, dear Jane, would make something out of those little crumbs.
I challenged myself to emulate you in the best possible way. Those teeny, tiny pieces were stitched in a crazy log cabin fashion until they were big enough to be recut into 2.5" blocks. I know, small.
Well, slowly but surely those snippets became 16 little blocks and with a bit more cutting from the scrap box.......
This little panel may become a cushion, it may be a little quilt, yet to be decided. Those red squares are way too dark and I shall change them for something more in tone. A girl has to be allowed to change her mind. There are still a few more bits left but I think they can go in the doggy pillows without too much guilt. I hope you will agree.
Your Faithful student.
Whilst searching for something in my messy chaos I came upon the pieces for the Rose Star block that was started some while ago. A little bit of sewing here and there gets the job done and the finished block now looks like this. Will I stitch more? We shall see. This is a large block and a one piece shape repeated and fussy cut in places. There are some fabulous examples being stitched out there,
Barbara Chainey,
Nicky Eglington and heaps more on Flikr.
I recently made the acquaintance of
Donna and she very generously sent me this huge bundle of fabrics which she thought may be of use to me in my latest project. Well, I can tell you that there are some great fabrics in there and I certainly will use them wisely. Thank you Donna, you are a star.
Happy Stitching.
Shirley.