I started the Stonefield Quilt by Susan Smith by making the blocks month by month. About half way through I found myself moving ahead and making the blocks I could sew by machine or simpler appliqué blocks. This, of course, left me with piles of little bits at the end. This star within a wreath was the last block I needed to finish Month Whatever It Was.
Here is that block hanging out with all of its friends from the same month.
And here are the remainders from another month. The original flowers are supposed to be layers of wavy edged ovals laid on top of each other. Taking some "artistic" license, I made them cat fabric flowers instead.
These are the blocks for that month, whatever that was. One might expect me to take all the Stonefield blocks and put them up as a sort of Stonefield "all the blocks finished" photo, but instead I celebrated by stuffing them all in a box (still by month) and felt the sweet relief of a SAOWAMUFO (Spread All Over, What a Mess UFO) turning into a OOSOOMUFO (Out of Sight, Out of Mind UFO).
4 comments:
Ah! I have many OOSOOMUFOs - I just didn't know what they were called. Thank you!
The Stonefield blocks are certainly different - especially with the fabulous fabrics you've chosen. Seems the supervisors have kept you busy over the last few months. I have a "safely stored away box" which is often renamed "never to be seen again" box where my almost but not quite finished blocks go to for a holiday. A long holiday usually. Elaine
Your finished blocks are just lovely--but I totally "GET" your
OOSOOMUFO thinking. Hmmm, seems I also have quite a few of those--- somewhere....hugs, Julierose
Love, love, love your sense of humor!
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