Originally Posted by Buckeye Rose
I am currently sitting in a hotel room while the DH recuperates from transplant surgery. He is doing great, but darn it, I miss my sewing and quilting. It is getting real bad...I want to make a run to the nearest JoAnn's...lol. After being here for 3 weeks I am going crazy. We are almost 3 hrs. from home, so running home for a quick session at the sewing machine isn't an option. So I just come on this board and see all the wonderful quilts and get new ideas. You fellow quilters have been a lifesaver to me!
Do run over to the Jo-Anns and get some fabric! If you go on a rainy weekday morning, and explain your problem,I will bet they will let you cut it there. Do you know how to sew the 3D bowtie block? That is a great block to carry around and hand sew together! and hand sewing the blocks into a quilt is a piece of cake if you sew fours together, and then those into bigger fours....and four of those to make the quilt top!
I made one with 5" sq pieces (Nickle squares) three of a floral print, the other two a batik green fern that matches the green in the leaves in the print.
OR sew some "nickle squares" into nine patches.
If you want you can cut those into "dissapearing nine patches" by drawing lines on the blocks, and cutting those with scizzors- pics on the forum will help you - and sew those blocks into fours and fours and fours!
Does this give you ideas? I hope!