I am loving nap time. Mia had a morning nap and an afternoon nap totalling 3 hours yesterday and today. So with chores done and washing on, I sat at my sewing machine and sewed. And sewed. I pieced six more Mix Tape blocks from Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine. This started off as a spur of the moment decision to make a single block and turn it into a mug rug. Then I made another one. Then I made a mini one. Then I made a few more, and now I have fifteen and a definite plan - so watch this space.
I really enjoyed picking the fabrics for these blocks. I picked the four coloured fabrics within the blocks quite carefully but with no reference whatsoever to the existing blocks. Until this morning, when I needed to make one more and asked for help on Instagram - red was missing!
Some of my favourite fabrics are included: Comma, Botanics, Art Gallery (oval Elements, Floral Elements, Indian Summer, Dreamin Vintage, Textures, and Legacy), Happy Mochi Yum Yum, Kona Solids, Pearl Bracelets, Color Me Happy, Tula Pink, Architextures, and a couple that I don't know what they are, but love them - especially the purple "reels" top left and the same fabric in green second down on the right - any ideas what these fabrics are and where I can get more? The text fabrics are harder to name as most of my fat quarters have the selvage without the name, but I know there's some Noteworthy from Sweetwater, and that fabric with instructions for making a pillowcase.... I was amazed that I had enough texty fabrics of the right scale. In the end I was struggling to find circular prints for the reels.
At the start of this project I made a mini version of the block.
This won't make it into my final quilt, but I am seriously considering a mini with nine of these little blocks for the IG Mini Quilt swap. So I'm not quite done with this block yet!
Linking up with WIP Wednesday!
I really enjoyed picking the fabrics for these blocks. I picked the four coloured fabrics within the blocks quite carefully but with no reference whatsoever to the existing blocks. Until this morning, when I needed to make one more and asked for help on Instagram - red was missing!
Some of my favourite fabrics are included: Comma, Botanics, Art Gallery (oval Elements, Floral Elements, Indian Summer, Dreamin Vintage, Textures, and Legacy), Happy Mochi Yum Yum, Kona Solids, Pearl Bracelets, Color Me Happy, Tula Pink, Architextures, and a couple that I don't know what they are, but love them - especially the purple "reels" top left and the same fabric in green second down on the right - any ideas what these fabrics are and where I can get more? The text fabrics are harder to name as most of my fat quarters have the selvage without the name, but I know there's some Noteworthy from Sweetwater, and that fabric with instructions for making a pillowcase.... I was amazed that I had enough texty fabrics of the right scale. In the end I was struggling to find circular prints for the reels.
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| One of my favourite blocks with my accidental fussy cutting! |
This won't make it into my final quilt, but I am seriously considering a mini with nine of these little blocks for the IG Mini Quilt swap. So I'm not quite done with this block yet!
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| A little more accidental fussy cutting! |
Linking up with WIP Wednesday!
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