Showing posts with label bonus triangles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bonus triangles. Show all posts

Thursday, 13 September 2007

This bad blogger will make good

Well I am unbelieveably inching up to 100 posts and when I get there I will offer something to those who read this ol' blog LOL.

I often read some of my posts and I'm so vague I'm sure nobody but me knows what I'm on about :O) So I will clarify my previous post, but not the previous 90-odd!

Here are the beautiful fabrics from Josie:

The silks are really lovely in the flesh, so lovely to touch, I shall have to think what to do with them. Any ideas?

Then here are those pesky bear claw blocks...

I followed the pattern which said to put two squares together, sew on either side of the diagonal and then trim in half, then half again and then on both diagonals, but there is so much trimming on the individual little pieces as well to be done. 160 itty bitty blocklets! I hate that! Perhaps I will do them tonight and just get them out the way so that I can sew the blocks together even though Thursday evenings I normally handquilt in front of the telly (Grey's Anatomy - I'm addicted).

In a previous post I mentioned I had made Bonnie's Pineapple Blossom quilt which gave bonus triangles

A whole lot in fact. I plan to make a lap quilt in this layout...

Not that interesting a layout, but I like it :O)

Monday, 10 September 2007

Life's a beach

On Saturday I got in the car and DS1 told me he'd like to go to the beach. I love the beach...
it's only about an hour away. Not a beach like I know from Cape Town, but sand and water nonetheless.
We messed about in the sand and when I washed my hands in the water, someone discovered that water and sand made MUD! He ran around like a loony shouting "MUD, MUD, MUD!"

He was so happy, it was lovely. We will go again!

Here are few things I've been working on. A top for Linus...

My September, October & November BlockBuddySwaps Maple leaves...

And my September Blockbuddy's "Focus Fabric" block (Waterwheel Variation it's called)...

The fabric is from Donna's shop and is called Forest Fire Batik (if I recall correctly). Each month we're making a Quilterscache block using a bit of focus fabric somewhere.

I'm also working on something with my bonus triangles from Bonnie's Pineapple Blossom which I did in butterfly prints. More on that later...