Sunday, I sat around and did a whole lot of nothing. I did play with some fabrics - I never did finish Bonnie Hunter's Easy Street Mystery in December - I got Steps 1 through 7 done and lost interest. I got the pieces I had finished out and played around with the layout. Not sure when I will actually get back to doing anything on it...
Monday, my husband and I ran a few errands, ate at a Chinese buffet, and went fabric shopping - OK, I went fabric shopping and he wandered aimlessly around the store. Bought a few solids for the various BOMs I am participating in. I made this block last weekend and my husband really liked the colors....I'm thinking I'll do more blocks in those colors for him a quilt.
This is the January block in the Oklahoma City Modern Quilt Guild 2013 Block of the Month. I am really happy with it. Speaking of the OKCMQG, it was announced today on the blog that the Red Cross quilt is complete and chances to win it are being sold - not sold actually, make a donation of $10 to the Red Cross or Empire State Relief Fund and get a chance to win. You can get all of the details on the blog.
I got another BOM block made last weekend. This is the January Sugar Block Club block. I messed it up a bit, but in the long run it came out OK. She uses odd measurements, and they threw me off. The center 9-patch was supposed to be 7 5/8". Mine was 7 3/4", but I got confused on my ruler and thought it was too small - when it was actually too big. Sheesh! I ended up stretching the flying geese to fit - by the time I figured out I should have cut down the 9-patch, I had already trimmed the geese. If I had ripped it apart and tried to fix, it would have been too small. I told myself I would be the only who knew....now a few more people know....LOL!
These are the fabrics I've chosen for the year. Rather than going out and buying a fat quarter bundle, I remembered I had gotten a bunch of FQs last year in a birthday swap - so I went through those, picked 17-18 I liked and chose the brown for the background. I think it will be interesting, and I feel good about working from the stash vs more shopping...
The next row of the Bee in my Bonnet Row Along came out - twinkly winter stars. I did get some of my fabrics cut, but I did not get them all cut nor did I get any sewn. Oh well....que sara sara! Whatever will be, will be....I will eventually get there....
I still have pictures to share....see you next week - have a good one!
Bri
I love your blue block, those colours are amazing
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