Block Play

While I am awaiting labels to add to the notebook covers I will be making for our church Holiday Faire,  I am making pieces to use in the covers. 

Some batiks and hand-dyed fabrics and maybe a print or two and these were made.

Once I am assembling the covers these will be used on the fronts of notebooks.  They will be bordered with other fabrics. 

I also found these two heart blocks as I was gathering materials.

So setting corners were added to make these two cover blocks of tilted hearts. 

Since I work rather intuitively, making decisions as I go, there is often what I call "my creative mess."

But aren't those colors lovely together?

I would be remiss if I didn't tell you that Craftsy is having a class sale this weekend.

Over 50 classes are on sale for $15.  Many others are priced at $19.99.  

Class Sale Here

For example, Playing with Curves taught by Ann Petersen is only $14.99. I used her curved piecing technique for the curves/hills & Valleys in one of the blocks in the top photo. 

These are affiliate links meaning that you get the best price offered while I get a small stipend as a bonus.  Your price is completely unaffected by using my link. 

Thanks!

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Another Notebook

After a great rehearsal last night and a trip to take Mom to the doctor this morning for her appointment, I sat and made this Quilted Notebook cover.

For the front cover, I used a piece of patchwork that I had made with quilting fabric and some of my handwoven fabric.  I also added a pocket inside the front cover for pens or pencils.
The effect of the handwoven fabric in patchwork piecing really makes my heart sing.  This will go in my "stash" for the November sale at church.  I hope someone loves it enough to buy it.  The great part about these is that they are easily refilled with a standard composition notebook. So it is usable for a very long time. I have ordered some labels for my small pieces - as soon as they arrive I will want to add one to this notebook cover.

Take care, my friends.   I need to get back to studying the music and choreography for the show.

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The Eclipse, Vote for Me - and a project

Today was the day - eclipse 2017.   As I was in the path of 95% totality (approx.)  it was on my bucket list to see as much of the eclipse as I could.  Cha-Ching!
Here is what happened:
I made a pinhole viewer by punching a hole in cardstock.  I tried it - ugh!  there were "artifacts" from the cardboard in the projection. So I made a bigger hole in some matboard and taped a curtain rod holder with one of the holes over the hole in the cardboard.
First look:

You can see the beginning of the eclipse here.
Oh, the viewer?

Fancy huh?

Here are some other photos -just so you know, it is hard to take a photo while you are holding the viewer to make the projection.

At one point this big old mean cloud covered the sun and blocked my view. (Disclaimer - I took the photo "blindly" by roughly aiming the camera without looking. Hey, it worked!)

I went inside and pouted until I saw sun on a building to my north. Then I went back out and watched some more with my pinhole viewer.  (Another disclaimer:  I know I am a geeky science nerd.)

And I am telling you that voting is open on the Pets on Quilts competition.  My quilt is registered as Pet Themed Quilt #4 Cat and Butterfly  Vote here http://lilypadquilting.blogspot.com/2017/08/and-now-voting-begins.html

Also I did actually do some sewing/quilting.
I made this quilted cover for a composition book.  I plan to make some various designs for a sale in November. This was my "test the size" sample - and it is less than perfect - so I will keep it.  It did help me to perfect what I will be doing, so that is a big plus.

Yes I did use some of my hand dyed fabric for it. 

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Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

Today's block, the Rolling Nine Patch, was published in the Fat Quarter Shop's blog.   My version is different a wee bit.  I needed a 9" block instead of the 5 1/2" block - so I improvised.  To do that every 1 1/2" measurement I changed to 2 1/2"  AND on the rectangle parts I made 4 1/2" long.  Do not assume that I am a math guru - far from it. I drew it up in Electric Quilt first as a 10" block.
Then when it was sewn I cut it down to 9" so that it will work in my Pineapple Surprise quilt.

If it looks a bit skewed, I think that is more the photo than the actual block. But if it is the block, it is okay for this quilt.
Notice that I used a hand dyed lavender along with a batik.  I had already used a bit of that batik in some other blocks, so it will add a little continuity.

By the way,  Craftsy is having a "Maker's Black Friday Sale" through Sunday at 11:59 MST. I saw some good deals on batting and even a great deal on Kaffe Fassett fabric collection.  There is also a Free Spirit Mystery Fat Quarter collection on sale - 50 FQs for $49.99.

If you don't hear from me a lot for the next month, here is why.  Our local community theater group is doing Mel Brooks' musical Young Frankenstein.  So, learning the music and choreography is going to take up a bit of my time.  Rest assured that I will be having a blast. If you are close, or going to be close by on September 29th thru October 1st,  I hope you will consider coming to see it.  It just so happens that the 30th of September is my birthday - so the Saturday show will be my way of celebrating.

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