This week I'm changing to the Legos quilt as my leader and ender. It's much simpler to just sew pairs of bits of 1.25 inch strips together. Then those get sewn together into one long long long strip. Then I make another, and another and another until I get nine lengths sewn together and then I cut them into blocks. I'm also linking to
Quilting is more fun than housework to join in with all the scrappy fun.
And here's the latest Dear Jane block, M4 or Stepping Stones.
Fabadashery made a new random draw so I want to keep up with the new blocks while I also catch up on earlier draws. This block turned out a bit wonky but it could have been a lot worse. The blocks with the flying geese are slightly rectangular, but I didn't realize it. Happily I was sewing "empirically," making bigger blocks and cutting them down to match the size of their adjacent block. So it turned out better than it should have.
And here is another one of the Jane Stickle blocks that didn't make it into her famous quilt. Yesterday I showed a fish that I had made up for the Rainbow Scrappy Challenge, but it turns out that Jane beat me to the punch. Apparently there is nothing new under the sun. And note that when Jane made her 4.5 inch square version, she included an eye...so now I think that means the eyes have it.
And last but not least, Molly the Foster Kitten is very impressed with all the quilters who are choosing words to use as a guide for the coming year. She agrees that having such a word helps avoid distraction and promotes focus on our key priority in life. So she has chosen a word for me:
MOLLY
I love that simple scrap quilt. What a great way to use all those skinny strings. Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!
ReplyDeleteWell, good. Now that your Word is all sorted, you can get back to important things like wielding feather toys.
ReplyDeleteLovely Dear Jane fish. I can almost picture it in the original.
ReplyDeleteSimple solution to the question of eyes after all! Hmm. I haven't specifically chosen a word for this year either. I'll have to keep Luna away from the computer screen or she might get ideas...
ReplyDeleteAnd Molly is a very good word indeed.
ReplyDeleteYou have had a very busy week with all those Dear Jane and fish blocks. It appears that Molly will graduate summa cum laude from Kitten U. With a major in psychology. Perhaps you will have to take her on as faculty with tenure. Love your scrap quilt.
ReplyDeleteMolly is brilliant and beautiful! And like Paula B, I'm hoping she will be retained for Kitten U. But I think she is more likely to be the Dean rather than just mere faculty. A fish with an eye!! Are you going to go back and add eyes to all your rocket fish?? (hehe)
ReplyDeleteLove that she has chosen her word for you and your photo of her is a beauty, what a lovely young pussy cat she is turning into. Pleased you are keeping the eye on the fish - so to speak!
ReplyDeleteThe scrap/Lego quilt caught my eye, but your scrappy fish wowed me! We keep fish, lots of fish here, and I think there needs to be fish quilt in my future. Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteYour legos quilt is so wonderful, as is the fish block. I've been avoiding starting new quilts, but I just might start the Legos as a leader/ender. It will help me clean my scraps up, right?
ReplyDeleteLove that legos quilt--it is a great leader-ender for sure...so cheery hugs, Julierose
ReplyDeleteP.S. what size do you cut those legos blocks??
ReplyDeleteI've not seen legos quilt before - very nice!
ReplyDeleteLovely quilting, but a wise choice to realize when you've fallen into the servitude of a cat. And such a beauty!
ReplyDelete