HOORAY - I AM UP TO DATE

I have been steaming away at my sewing machine this week, and it has paid off, because I am right up to date with all the blocks now, I just have to make the one that was loaded today. To say I have a BIG smile on my face is putting it mildly!!!!

Wyoming Valley - week 5

Cathy's Star - Week 14

Flyfoot - Week 18

Northumberland Star - Week 33

Hope of Hartford - Week 37

Castle in the Air - Week 35

I have no idea how I got it back to front

Fool's Square - Week 39

Double Quartet - Week 36

Nelson's Victory - Week 38

Mosaic 3 - Week 32

Blindman's Fancy - Week 43

This one drove me half nuts, what on earth is 11/16 all about cos it didn't fit for me!

I will give it a good press and hopefully it will lay flat, darn thing...

Game Cocks - Week 44

Flight of Swallows - Week 41

Yep I know the colours are not as the block on site, but my birds are

entirely surrounded by sky - that's my story and I am sticking to it!!!

Carolyn's Star - Week 46

This one and the other similar one are very pretty BUT -

never again...

That's my Baby - Week 47

Album Star - Week 40

I really like this block may use it again...

Cross in a Cross - Week 45

Baton Rouge Square - Week 42

Indian Square - Week 48

another really good block, proves that to KISS is the thing to do...

So there we are ladies, I am all up to date, bar today's block.

YIPPEE

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Reformed Slacker

I spent a marathon day yesterday in my sewing room. It helped that the weather was crappy and Hubby was making dinner. Many, many hours later, fortified by chocolate, cashews, coffee and a glass of Merlot, I am happy to say I am a slacker no more. Here are the results, although I won't say they are for your viewing pleasure! Some are nice. Many are downright ugly. But the bottom line is that I am fully caught up with Friday Block Party! Here they are, eight weeks of the good, the bad & the ugly.



Week 24: Interesting block.


Week 23: Extremely easy and not very interesting.

Week 22: I love stars and this one is a favorite. I was pleasantly surprised that my points all matched!

Week 21: Ugly block. Stupid construction technique. I didn't put the little square onto the rectangle but just cut the strip to size. This one as a stand alone is awful. It is destined to be an orphan. As a whole quilt it is much better. I still don't like it.

Week 19: I love this block. My piecing on this one went smooth as silk so I guess I am improving. Someday I will make a quilt with Union Square blocks.

Week 2o: This one was interesting and different.

Week 17: I like this block. Very easy to piece. It would make a good alternate block in a top to create a different look.

Week 18: I have never liked this block. I think it must be the whole Nazi thing I associate it with. This was my last block of the day and I think the glass of wine was taking effect. It is pretty sloppy.

So there you have it. I'm all caught up. One thing I can say for certain is that I am getting pretty darn good at working with the homespun fabrics. I use a lot of spray starch on it and it really helps. I plan to put all those blocks into a quilt one of these days.

Catching Up

I was a slacker last week because I just wasn't getting inspired by the block. But I caught up this week!

Flyfoot



Union Square

Flyfoot

what week is it, anyway?

I've never been a huge fan of the fly-foot block -- it reminds me of spiders and I'm not super fond of spiders... anyway, I thought it would be boring to do it in just two colors so I used threem and it's still boring!I liked the union square block, although I kinda blew off a couple of points when I sewed the borders onto the square-in-square piece. The gold fabric is actually some of Ami Simm's apple pie filling -- I knew it would be good for something!

Quiltpixie's pinwheel or flyfoot

I managed to get this week's block done under the wire again :-) I like hosting this challenge, as when i went to sort the block out for the upcoming week I realized I hadn't gotten to this week's, and was able to push myself to focus and get it done before drawing the block for next week... Generally I'm not good at working close to a deadline, but it seems to be becoming a habit with these. On the other hand, I'm getting them done which was the goal!

I'd say the blocks are getting easier, but I'd rather think its the practise paying off. No lopped off points, not stretched out of square -- the only "oops" this week was I didn't pay attention t the directions seams should be pressed and there are a few I had to fold on the back. Guess I'll learn to attend to that as well soon too :-)

Weeks 16 and 18

Well I got week 16 done and I really like how it turned out. It was a fun block. Week 18 on the other had a little hiccup. I just drew the block out on a piece of paper and took it to the sew room. I didn't shade any areas to let me know where lights and darks or just different fabrics should go. So whooops. I still like the block. And maybe I will go back and do it with the shades of fabric in the right places. Got to find some time. If you have any extra send it my way. I always seem to be in short supply.

Vicki's week 18

Like Hetty I also had a bunch of HSTs already made up in my stash so I figured I might as well use them up. This block really doesn't do much for me but looking at some of the others it can look good. It all depends on the fabrics selected, how they are placed and then the contrast between them.

This is what's so great about the FBP is that you get to see a whole bunch of different variations of a block and how things work given the selections made.

Kathie's Week 18

Like Carol, since I was doing this in just two colors, making 8 flying geese blocks made more sense than making 16 HST. I pulled this lilac fabric from my stash this week because here in eastern PA, the lilacs started blooming this week, along with the flowering cherry and dogwood and azaleas. I think this is the prettiest week of the year! Kathie in PA

18 Re-arranged

I didn't really like this block, so I took mine apart and arranged my geese differently. I like it a little better now. I think I might be getting tired of pink! But I want to keep going and see if I get a huge quilt out of all of these blocks at the end of the year. Will I still like my blocks when I have over 50 of them in pink???

Hetty's Foot is Dancing!

Here is this week's block. I used a whole lot of half square triangle blocks that were in my scrap bin. Only had to make a couple more. That made me very happy.


But there are a couple of things about this block that I don't like. It has nothing to do with the construction of it. It's the way it looks. Also, I decided that I really didn't like the name Flyfoot either. I can't stand to watch flies walking on things. They give me the creeps! But the block sort of looks like ribbons on a May pole. So I have renamed my block Dancing Round the May Pole, since I made it yesterday, May 1st. and I did a little happy dance when I realized I didn't have to make all those half square triangles block from scratch!

Giraffe Foot

I made this week's block already! It was still Friday when I got it done (barely)! I'm still trying to catch up. I have a couple of older week's blocks still to do -- but I'll get there. I made this one with flying geese instead of all HSTs.

week 18 instructions

this week's block is easy! lots of HST but nothing else! yipppeeeeee.

Flyfoot should go nice and quickly.