Scrappy Trips and Starry Nights

I had fun with the CHERISH Do Good Stitches August block - a Scrappy Trip block





This quilt is going to look fantastic - take a look at the Flickr group photos

My partner for QBSA this month was Tracey, who asked for any block influenced by Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night

this is a tease photo for Tracey - will post a colour photo when it has arrived ;-)

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

FNwF or FAwF

FNwF started as FAwF (Friday Arvo with Friends)

In my recent endeavours to search and destroy locate all UFOs, I came across quite a few items that were in various stages of completedness  ;-)

some items were cut, ready to sew,
some items were partially sewn, almost ready to finish
and some items ............. well let's just say I'm not sure what stage they were at ........... or what I was intending to do with them  ;-)


I played with a layout of my Old Primrose Inn blocks - I have a new Layer Cake ready to go, but just couldn't get motivated to cut and sew






I really wanted to do some 'feel good' sewing ................. something that would go towards the various relief efforts for  QLD/NSW with the recent spate of fires and floods we are experiencing.

So I experimented with an old Jelly Roll and made up a few not so Scrappy Trip Along blocks as a test before the real scrappy trip along ;-)

 Here the blocks are, as I put them on the design wall - I can see a few patterns emerging - need to play some more ;-)
I only have a few more strips left :(


I am going to have to find more of this fabric ........ now that I have actually made these blocks up, I really like it ;-)  Anyone know what it is?   All I can remember is that I got it from Spotlight some time in 2010, one of my very first fabric purchases ;-)

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Block Lotto Blocks for November

The block for Block Lotto for November is a great scrap buster ;-)

We are to make 12 inch Scrappy Trips blocks.

Bonnie Hunter's pattern can be found on her Quiltville site here:  http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/scrappy-trips-around-world.html

The Block Lotto slant is that there must be ONE VERY DARK fabric (think black or another color that is so dark that it might read as black from across the room). Place the dark fabric so that it forms the diagonal that goes from corner to corner.

Other Fabrics - all other fabrics in the block are your choice. This is a great time to use up the last bit of a favorite fabric or to use some of those "what was I thinking" ugly fabrics in your stash. Mix it up and AVOID making monochrome blocks (with 4-6 strips of fabrics that are different values of the same color--in my experience, these are the blocks that will stick out in the finished quilt and be the block that is NOT like the others.

If you make multiple blocks, you can repeat fabrics, just DON'T USE THE SAME SIX fabrics in multiple blocks.

I wansn't too sure about this one, but I figured

"Sophie doesn't steer you wrong" ;-)

So I went about selecting my fabrics and this is what I came up with ;-)

This was certainly an exercise that showed up inaccurate cutting - some of the strips I used were leftover pre-cut jelly roll strips ;-(

Here are my 5 blocks made so far

Thank you, Sophie, once again you have made a wonderful block selection.