Saturday, October 31, 2009

Whew! October Swap Blocks Done!

And not a moment too soon. My deadline was....TODAY! Finished them up last night.

Given my procrastinate-y nature, it came as no surprise that I finshed these the night before the deadline. However, in my defense, I was a bit scared to get going, because:
  • My partner asked for log cabin type blocks and I'd never tried one before.
  • She requested a combination of florals and solids and I didn't have much of either.
So I made up two very different floral and solid blocks using the log cabin style pattern and ended up w/these.OK, so the brown/pink combo didn't look at all like a log cabin, even though I used a log cabin tutorial to go by . Still, I thought it was funky and cute and had decided to send it anyway. Or so I thought...

When I opened my email to get her mailing info, I discovered that I had misread it. My partner requested any print(not specifically floral) w/solids and she likes red, green, purple and yellow. Oops. SO, back to the drawing board for me.

These were the final finished blocks. The colors aren't showing true at all here due to crappy lighting conditions...however, I am pretty satisfied w/the way they came out and was happy that I was able to incorporate all four colors into one block. I hope my partner will be happy with them.This (above) is actually a dark purple, not navy, solid with a lavender/dark purple print. The gray looking dot print, is really a nice soft vintagey green.
Best thing...I've got this log cabin block down...I see a log cabin quilt in my future.

The aftermath of quilt block making.

***5 min. after typing this, I had a thought***

UMMM......ARE these log cabins? I mean, I put them together following a log cabin pattern I found here....but should they have been dark side/light side and if so, are these courthouse steps...I think they are! CRAP.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Friendship Bag

Our first Material Girls get together was last month. I wanted to take a project that I could finish in the 2 hour time frame. I've been somewhat obsessed with lunch bags lately. I scoured online sites looking for the perfect pattern/tutorial. And settled on the Friendship bag. In the photos it looked adorable...and lunch sized. Of course, once I started cutting it out, I realized that looks can be deceiving! It's TINY! ...but it is, in fact, ADORABLE! I'll be using some of these as gift bags this Christmas!
The next Material Girls is this week. I've adjusted the instructions for the friendship bag into what I hope will make a lunch sized bag and am going to give it a whirl.

The tutorial for the adorable, Lilliputian bag is here.