New York Beauty

Do you remember these?

They are the first weeks blocks in the New York Beauty Quilt-along.

I had a bit of a clean out of my sewing space yesterday and got a little

distracted!   The above blocks now look like this

Now I want to get back into the New York Beauty Blocks and make some more

cushions.

Also, here is the block that I made for my partner in the 

Block Swap Adventure. Her request was for a "Wonky Star" block.

I have added an improvised centre. I hope that she likes it and that it is not

to modern for her linking :-S

Have a fantastic day.

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New York Beauty QAL - 1st Block

Yesterday morning when I was sitting here going through blog posts
 over a cup of Coffee up pops the Blog post for the first block of the

New York Beauty QAL

Arghhhhh what am I going to do?
and where did the time go, I am so unprepared.

Deep breath, stand back and look at my fabric stash.

Not a lot in there to do a scrappy mix and no bundles that I wanted to use.

Would love to play with Batiks but no $$ for fabric this week :(

OK.....lets start somewhere ...... with solids?

I grabbed out every solid that I have

Not enough for 4 blocks without repeating a color

Standing back at the fabric stash again,

Word prints??????

Pulled them......don't have many of these :(

Did see potential though :o)

OK... templates printed, breakfast dishes were still in the sink and I had been no where near the laundry but I did have some meat out for Tea :o)

Oh...... Miss Lily had agreed to a PJ day  Fantastic ...... here we go!

Now, to keep it REAL

here are my reject blocks for the day!

A lot of lessons learned in these blocks

so off to take two :o)

Happy with my color choices this time around

but imagine how great they would look if it went light / dark / light. 

Now to sew the curves  ....... grab a strong coffee, put tea on

(yes it really took me that long to get this far)

remember to breath and go for it!

I have not trimmed the blocks yet or sewn the four together.

I am not sure how I am going to lay out the blocks I will be making so I am going to do the trimming and squaring up at a later date.

I do like this idea on layout though

So are you game to jump in on the QAL with me?

Just click on the button below and it should take you to all the details.

 

Enjoy your day,

I've got some more paper piecing templates to print out.

Oh .. and yesterday laundry to do :o)

hugs,

Sharon

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