September 27, 2018

With cooler weather in September, Fall was an easy theme to pick for Trevor’s card. However that sunflower would be drowning in the rain we are experiencing as I write this. Perhaps it is the rain that makes the sunflower lean to the left?

Although I’m not fond of working with batiks I have to admit that there is nothing better to get just the right colours, no matter what colour you are looking for.

September 26, 2018

I don’t usually work with batiks, but batiks were on my table so I went with batiks. When I see shapes like this my mind automatically goes to English Paper Piecing so that’s how I did the block. But I really want to get better at needle-turn appliqué and these would have been good shapes to practice with.

September 14, 2018

I started a quilt-along in February. I’ve made sampler quilts from this company before and I had great plans for this one; each week I would make one block for myself and one block to use as cards. As it turned out, the ones I was making for cards turned out better than the ones I was making for myself so I stopped at block 12 in April.

But this pretty little block was on my design wall (which is the front of the door to my sewing room) and I picked it for Carol.

September 13, 2018

Alex recently got a new pet – a fish. His is much more interesting than this (a Siamese Fighting Fish) but I couldn’t find a pattern that was even remotely possible for me to copy. But around the same time as I was planning my September cards this fish popped up on my calendar and I decided to make it.

In the last few days there have been other fish designs showing up so he may end up with a set of fish!