February’s color palette challenge has 10 colors in it. I looked at it and thought ’10 colors! How will I ever pull that off!?’ The answer is a little bit here, and a little bit there. I’m so happy with the way this block turned out! I’m using Joined at the Hip, Basket and Blooms Block of Month from 2000.
My daughter says the blooms look like eggs. Eggs or not, I still love this block!
I’m following Craftsy Block of the Month with Amy Gibson. Every month a video is posted showing the construction of two blocks. It’s free! Here are my two blocks for February.
Chunky Chevron
Balkan Puzzle
Using the chevron block pattern, I enlarged it to a 16″ block and then added two more half square triangles to the sides to form a sqaure. By piecing three of these altered blocks in a row and adding background fabric to the sides, I have created a 48″ long x 38″ wide baby quilt.
Here is the top waiting to be quilted and bound.
Thanks for the inspiration Craftsy and Amy!
Here is a quilt using 30′s fabrics with two inner border options. The original pattern used Moda fabrics with a 30′s look of dog prints, dog bone prints and florals. Using those fabrics with the first border option of pieced bone blocks would be a nice fit. But since I didn’t have any of the doggy fabrics, I opted to showcase both border options – two sides of the quilt display the pieced bones option, while the other two sides display the alternative option. The pattern is Moda Pampered Pooch. This well be an upcoming class at Fabrics and Friends Quilt Shoppe, Roanoke, IN.
I am participating in Judy Laquidara’s 2012 UFO Challenge. I’m happy to report that I completed my Garden Lattice quilt. One down, 11 to go! Why do we quilters start so many projects but move on to another with out finishing the first!? This ‘finish’ is actually just the quilt top, as I am also participating in a Free Motion Quilting Challenge. I hope to have improved enough with my FMQ skills to quilt some of my tops by the end of the year.
February’s UFO is a Christmas table runner that I’m no longer excited about. Maybe I’ll have to think of it as a head start on gifts for December.