This weekend was my weekend to sew! I had a great time down in my sewing room stitching the hours away. Al had to work so I spent a good portion of that time sewing and then a little time cooking and baking.
I put in a few hours on my block for the FAVORITE BLOCK swap. My block choice was Mother's Choice. NOT AN EASY BLOCK!! At least the way I made it wasn't easy. I guess if I had followed the online instructions I would have been able to get both of them made in no time ....BUT NO... I had to do it my own way.. the old way. NOT FUN! I spent over 2 hours working on it and got a little over 1/2 way through. I'm going to finish it up the old way but the second block is going to be done using the instructions I found online. Can't believe that any lady (back in the day) would have made a WHOLE quilt from this block, unless they did it completely by hand... too many set in seams for a machine to do it correctly.
Well enough ranting and raving about that... After getting almost nowhere on that blue block, I started making some really easy strip blocks with my blue fabrics. I have blue fabric overflowing EVERYWHERE so it's time to make some scrappy quilts using up at least a tiny bit of my stockpile.
Wow Deb, that is such a beautiful block, but looks so difficult.
ReplyDeleteI love your blue strips quilt you are working on. The dark blue is so striking.
Since My blocks won't be coming until next year, I decided to make a strip quilt too. My blocks are 6in. & you will never quess what my colors are. ha ha
Could they possibly be PINK?! LOL
ReplyDeleteI have about 5 more blocks to do on my blue quilt then the borders.. This has been so much fun... mindless sewing :)