Jennie's Threads

Back in March or February I shared the first block in the Delilah quilt. This is my first foray into templates and hand piecing - properly, not English Paper Piecing. It's proving to be a challenge, not helped by the fact that months 1 and 2 were all about the curves! My plan for this quilt is bright and scrappy with dark backgrounds. Here are my month 1 blocks. And my month 2 blocks. And I've just finished the first month 3 block. Now to pick out fabrics for the second of these blocks and hope that the next monthly installment doesn't drop through my letterbox just yet!

For the last few years I have taken part in many, many online quilt-alongs and block-of-the-month programmes. I've even got as far as finishing some of them... I can honestly say that I have never regretted the decision to join in. I've done blocks of the day, blocks of the week and blocks of the month and I've loved it. The one thing that most of them have had in common, is machine piecing, be it rotary cutting or foundation piecing. Only the Splendid Sampler, which is mostly machine pieced, and the New Hexagon Millefiore quilt which is English Paper Piecing and the Collection quilt, which will be applique if I ever get going with it, have stood out. And whilst I love machine piecing blocks, and will still always be tempted by these projects, I decided that 2017 was the year to step out of  my comfort zone. Over the next few weeks I'm going to be sharing with you some of the new projects I've started this year. I wanted to wait until I had completed at least some o...