I know it's already March so I'm a bit behind posting pics of my Lucky Star BOM for February. I did get them posted to the Flicker group though, so yay!
For February, I made 2 blocks. One with the 6 inch template and one with the 12 inch. I used the tye-dyed fabrics that I bought at the Houston Quilt Festival for the 12 inch block. I'm slowly using this fabric on blocks that I think are really cool with the hopes that they will all "go together" at some point so that I can make my son a cool quilt/wall hanging for his room. But we'll see what happens.
The six inch block is made with Moda's Eat Your Fruits and Veggies fabric just as January's block was. I think this will make a really cool and bright quilt when all the blocks are finished.
Ok. Now I'm going to show you my February block for the Saturday Sampler I'm doing with my LQS. It's called Spinner and it's suppose to look like a pinwheel. It's an old pattern that's been around forever and I did an absolutely perfect job cutting out each piece. It came together perfectly and I was so proud of my block. I think it's the most exact cutting job I've ever done. I'm using bright Batik fabrics with a white background.
BUT, once I finished the block and went to take the picture, I looked through the camera lens and that's when I saw it. A swastika. When you look at it in person, it looks like a pinwheel but through the camera, it looks like a swastika.
I was so upset. And, I was also afraid to post a pic because I don't want to get hate mail about it or anything. I think if the color palette were different, it would look different but instead the batiks are very similar in color.
What do you think? Am I just imagining things? I mean this pattern has been around forever so you would think someone else would have noticed it by now. Please tell me I'm nuts.
And don't send me hate mail.
It's a semi warm (68 degrees) and rainy day here today. Perfect sewing weather or napping weather. I'm trying really hard to stay awake though.
I've been trying to spend some time working on items for my etsy shop. In particular, eye pillows. They sell really well this time of year and all year long really. I spent 2 days cutting 60 rectangles.
This is about half of the stack. I've already started listing them in my shop.
I've also been working on some of my WIP's.
I finished my January block for the Lucky Stars BOM. I decided to make the 6 inch squares because I wanted to use a charm pack that I already had. It's Eat Your Fruits and Veggies from Moda.
I like the way it turned out. Although, I did make a mistake which I didn't even notice until I started taking pictures of it. Can you see it?
I meant to alternate the star points of the blue fabric so that the cherry fabric was on opposite points but somehow it didn't turn out that way. And I was being really careful too. Oh well.
I've gotten all my half square triangles made for my Saturday Sampler BOM. I just need to finish trimming them and sew them into the square.
And finally, this is how far I've gotten on my paper pieced pillow.
I've got a white border going on but it's not big enough. I need it to fit a 24x24 inch pillow form and I think it's about 18x18 now. So, I ordered some solid green fabric and also one of the damask prints that's in the pillow. I think I'm going to make a border with the green and then use the damask for the back. Also, I'm thinking about doing a cording but I'm not sure. I'll keep you posted.
Hope everyone is having a great week!
