So here's the pic of the finished blocks (see the last post for their unfinished state)
Showing posts with label Log Cabin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Log Cabin. Show all posts
Sunday, 14 March 2010
March Block Lotto - Liberated Log Cabin With Attitude - Finished and Entered!
Ooo the excitement, I've done 5 pairs of blocks for this month's Block Lotto. Having failed to enter any last month as life just got in the way and also having won the first month of entering, I think I ought to be polite and donate my chances this month. Although I do like the blocks she thinks wistfully. Nope, I have enough Unfinished Projects, it's good for stuff to leave my house and clutter up someone elses!
So here's the pic of the finished blocks (see the last post for their unfinished state)
and here's the link to my post on Block Lotto entering them into this month's draw (or use the Block Lotto icon on the right hand side to see what else is going on there).
So here's the pic of the finished blocks (see the last post for their unfinished state)
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Block Lotto March - Liberated Log Cabin With Attitude
I was quite excited about the February Block Lotto, and got as far as a test alphabet but no further so I couldn't join in last month. But this month I'm determined to do so: and it's Liberated Log Cabin With Attitude. Rules are:
Bold - have at least one black & white or one black & one white piece in there.
Cool - use colours from the cool side of the wheel - blues, greens, purples
Scrappy - use leftovers if you can, solids, prints or multis, but predominantly cool coloured.
So, I raided my stash, and found that I'd forgotten completely about some quilting cottons that a friend of mum's gave me a while ago, plus some lightweight furnishing fabrics in the blues/greens/purples/greys requested. Plus I've got a lot of oddments of a gorgeous wax batik fabric I made a dress from for a friend's informal wedding a year or so ago, and some ready cut square patches in the right colour I'd raided from Wendy's remnants bin (Wendy used to have a designer kids wear business, then moved into soft furnishings and is now making prototype leather handbags preparatory to selling them on the web. They are to die for, when she gets it set up, I'll post a link).
Four hours later, I had acheived this - three Log Cabins more or less 12x12" (you cut them down to 9.5" at an angle when they're done) and seven Log Cabins that are about half way there. I cannot decide whether I like them or not - I like all the fabrics I've used, just perhaps not together. Maybe when they're all the same finished size....
Bold - have at least one black & white or one black & one white piece in there.
Cool - use colours from the cool side of the wheel - blues, greens, purples
Scrappy - use leftovers if you can, solids, prints or multis, but predominantly cool coloured.
So, I raided my stash, and found that I'd forgotten completely about some quilting cottons that a friend of mum's gave me a while ago, plus some lightweight furnishing fabrics in the blues/greens/purples/greys requested. Plus I've got a lot of oddments of a gorgeous wax batik fabric I made a dress from for a friend's informal wedding a year or so ago, and some ready cut square patches in the right colour I'd raided from Wendy's remnants bin (Wendy used to have a designer kids wear business, then moved into soft furnishings and is now making prototype leather handbags preparatory to selling them on the web. They are to die for, when she gets it set up, I'll post a link).
Four hours later, I had acheived this - three Log Cabins more or less 12x12" (you cut them down to 9.5" at an angle when they're done) and seven Log Cabins that are about half way there. I cannot decide whether I like them or not - I like all the fabrics I've used, just perhaps not together. Maybe when they're all the same finished size....
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