MJP, your blocks are lovely. LOL. you don't like two of my favorite parts about quilting: Points, namely stars, and two color quilts! See, there is so much variety in what we can do, enough for everyone to find something they love. You are correct about the 10 inch fabric. Sometimes I cannot make the block I want due to the size of the fabric. It happened once or twice this round but I was able to switch gears and make something else. I also like to use a lot of the fabric we're sent so I have to be careful I can get all my cuts out of the piece. I will resort to drawing it out on a sheet of paper and cutting out the pieces to see if I've got enough by laying them on the f8. I'm sure your recipients appreciate you following the style or theme requests. I usually make as close as I can come to the style request but not always. I want to have a little room for my own style.
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mjpEncinitas
I’m not fond of making anything with points or two color blocks. So I got those two blocks out of the way.
I forgot that 10” wide fabric doesn’t go far. My intention was to make Anna an Ohio star using the taupe (kinda gray) fabric for much of the block. . The taupe fabric didn’t go as far as I would’ve liked so I added light blue. There were four Ohio star blocks in the patterns Anna requested so I made her one of those. Unfortunately, The picture is slightly blurry. I liked the deeper colors requested to go with the taupe fabric. I used a blue tinged with green as I thought the warm taupe fabric would do better with that. Orange would look really great with that fabric.
For WMU teach, I also made an Ohio Star, since she likes Stars. I couldn’t resist added an applique in the middle. That two color block came together much easier than the first one I made. I was thankful you included enough of the white to do this block. I noticed one of the edges was fraying so I put fray check on it, I could’ve just trimmed it but I thought fray check was the better solution. I think I might use this pattern with all two color blocks.
I know we don’t have to do the requests but I always do. I don’t want to give a block that won’t be used. I did have a whole series of amazing farm applique block patterns, from a cruising quilter shop hop I went on years ago but I set them aside.
It was fun to dip my toe back into the boom waters. The first block took a long time making sure the points were correct but the second one was a lot quicker.
I'm off to add in the latest blocks. BTW, we're getting some outside traffic on the gallery website. Hundreds of views a week. I'm sure that isn't just us. If only a couple of those people who lurk and view would join, it would be wonderful. And do you all see how many views this thread has as of today? 26,077. If only a miniscule percentage of those people would join, we'd have a wave of new people. Come on, lurkers! Join us the next round. We'd love to have you!