June's Week 9: Scottie

I measured to have fewer seams - thanks to Kathie L in Allentown for the tip on that! 

Went together really easily.  I'm getting my sewing legs/eyes back as I can see a quarter inch of background before the tips of the ear and nose!

Thanks again to Hetty for organizing this blog!

Two Scotties

I made a second Scottie with the pieces I had left over from the first one, after I changed the dog fabric. I did this one in reverse so that they can look at each other.

Scottie

Here is my Scottie Dog. I started to make him with some cute dog fabric and some little paw prints. But when I started making the HSTs, I realized there was not enough contrast between my puppy fabric and the background. (as you can see in the squares beside my block) I decided to cut out some dark fabric and use it for the Scottie. The nose is done in the dark fabric, but using the back of it because it was darker. It doesn't show up in the photo, but I am not taking it out. I have lots of puppy fabric left over, so I think I will make another block using that and a light background. But not today.

Did anyone use the templates? I looked at them, but did not use them. I think they are not correct.

Kathie's Scottie Dog - Week 9

I was hoping that this block would be one of the animals that we'd do this year. I had the perfect dark blue fabric with some white squiggles that give it that rough fur sort of look. You'll see that rather than sew a lot of 2-1/2 inch squares together, if similar colors were together, like the body of the dog and parts of the background, I just cut out one piece the size of the many pieced squares. I hate having more seams than I need. Kathie L in Allentown

Week 9 of 2011 - Going to the Dogs

An easy 10inch block for this week. It's called, 'A Scottie Dog'.

Enjoy!