As if I didn't have enough projects to complete!
When Victoria (as in 15 Minutes of Play, Bumble Beans) issued the Spring challenge, I just couldn't resist. It's been a long and cold and wet winter and I was so desperately needing a Spring day when I saw her newly posted challenge.
And I new just where my starting point was going to be. After ordering the fat quarter bundle of Anna Maria Horner's new fabric collection, True Colors, I cut most of it into 7" hexagons for my next quilt.....but I saved all the little scraps. Some fabrics are just too precious to trash....don't you agree?
Back to my story - here's the challenge block diagram. Not much going on here! But with high hopes of Spring nearby, I intend to make it my own.
Victoria says we can do anything to the block that we want....make it any size....sub-divide it even more....whatever. Her only "rule" is that somewhere within the block, there must be some "made fabric." Okay, I can follow that rule! Using my left-overs from my True Colors collection, I set about making fabric which I then turned into a 4-patch square - flying geese. Component #1 now complete x 4. To SOLIDify my block, I found some Kona snow and cut into my attaching triangles to complete component #2 of the challenge block. Now what? Lucky for me I went to our local Hancock's the other day and found a home dec fabric remnant on sale which I thought read Spring. Component #3 complete.
I got four blocks completed just in time to STOP and smell the Spring flowers. It's a skinny little wall-hanging - 8" x 32" with flower petals and leaf free-motion quilted. Yes, Spring is bursting out all over the sewing room wall.
When Victoria (as in 15 Minutes of Play, Bumble Beans) issued the Spring challenge, I just couldn't resist. It's been a long and cold and wet winter and I was so desperately needing a Spring day when I saw her newly posted challenge.
And I new just where my starting point was going to be. After ordering the fat quarter bundle of Anna Maria Horner's new fabric collection, True Colors, I cut most of it into 7" hexagons for my next quilt.....but I saved all the little scraps. Some fabrics are just too precious to trash....don't you agree?
Back to my story - here's the challenge block diagram. Not much going on here! But with high hopes of Spring nearby, I intend to make it my own.
Victoria says we can do anything to the block that we want....make it any size....sub-divide it even more....whatever. Her only "rule" is that somewhere within the block, there must be some "made fabric." Okay, I can follow that rule! Using my left-overs from my True Colors collection, I set about making fabric which I then turned into a 4-patch square - flying geese. Component #1 now complete x 4. To SOLIDify my block, I found some Kona snow and cut into my attaching triangles to complete component #2 of the challenge block. Now what? Lucky for me I went to our local Hancock's the other day and found a home dec fabric remnant on sale which I thought read Spring. Component #3 complete.
I got four blocks completed just in time to STOP and smell the Spring flowers. It's a skinny little wall-hanging - 8" x 32" with flower petals and leaf free-motion quilted. Yes, Spring is bursting out all over the sewing room wall.
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