Determination

Yesterday I brought out my box of somewhat prepped blocks for Lori Smith’s 30s sampler.  I was disappointed to discover that I was only on block 13 of 40 or so – it felt like I’ve working on this forever – but I think its been only a couple of months :)

I looked at the block I was to do, a 9 inch star – and I rolled my eyes.  I love Lori Smith’s patterns, but her sampler blocks can be challenging – a lot of pieces, and a lot of 1/8” measurements.  Not counting cutting time, it took almost two hours for me to finish this block!  But look at it – amazingly, its almost perfect and its very pretty – too bad it will get lost amongst all the other blocks in this sampler.

To recover from yesterday’s piecing trauma, I played with scrap blocks today.  The first is Charlotte’s Hodgepodge – made from leftover Charlotte line fabric, the pattern is dead easy,see making hodgepodge.  I chose a very pale pink as my centre square so there is something to follow within the quilt.

 

 

 

 

 

Then I laid out the Strip Mine quilt, from a class I took at Quilt U.  Another quick, easy, and fun block, this one I’m making from civil war repro style fabrics.

 

I was going to make more of these today, but then I ended up getting involved in planning the final borders of the Cottage Crossing quilt; the got restless and ended up pulling out the Cherry Berry Album blocks – guess what?  We just might see two finished tops this week!