Hayes Corner

This is an unusual block by itself, but it makes a gorgeous quilt when a bunch of them are put together. I'll see if I can find the quilt I made several years ago from this pattern. For now, here's the one I did today:

Week 21, Hayes' Corner

SLOWLY GETTING NEARER

Trying desperately to catch up with everyone, I cut out a few more to make as and when, as I could and when I can basically. I have had to send my beloved Bernina to be fixed--don't ask-- I am using a Janome at the moment and it is driving me nuts, I cannot get on with it at all. They say a bad workman blames his tools... I am all over the place with the machine, but have got to do them, so just carried on as best I could. I took these pictures with a white lace cloth behind them, had to really cut them quite a lot so as to block out the hideous white lace - not a good look at all.

Bouncing Betty - WEEK 15
she sure did bounce!!



Chain & Cross - WEEK 17
I am thinking these are strange names for some of the blocks...

Union Square - WEEK 19
looks like Bear Paw to me...



Pinwheel #4 - WEEK 20
spot the mistake - not deliberate -
a moments concentration flew out the window
it is staying as is...



Hayes Corner - WEEK 21
an odd block to be sure, but it makes a lovely quilt...



Starflower - WEEK 22
zipped up in no time...



ERROR ERROR ERROR

I was making this as Dakota Gold - WEEK 16
I kept thinking, this is the same as Starflower, why am I making two
the same? Should have stopped, I hadn't printed the first page out had I -
doh! so of course didn't see the picture properly, this too will stay as is,
but I will make the proper block - eventually...

Lessons learned from these blocks, don't let your concentration waver, don't sew when you are tired, choose your colours in the daylight, make sure you are reading the pattern properly

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.

Caught up! :-)

I must be finding my centre of balance again, as I got into the quilting studio and actually did something more than move fabric around and think!

I did this week's block, 1941 nine patch, which I found quite boring, and then went back and got week 21's block, Hayes' corner done too. I've decided to simply skip week 22's block (starflower) since I really did it when I made a variation of Dakota Gold weeks ago. So now I'm all caught up :-)

I've also made some decisions about this block challenge for myself -- I'm going to sandwich each of these blocks and quilt them in the next while -- completely independently of each other. And then try to assemble these prequilted blocks into quilt tops... I've read the instructions for "quilt as you go" type quilts, and think this'll provide a great low stress chance to try that technique too. If it doesn't work well, they're only sample blocks, made for another purpose, not lots of time and effort invested into a specific planned quilt. :-)

My Mind Was On Some Other Corner

As the title states my mind was on some other corner when I was doing Hayes Corner. First I managed to scorch one of the HSTs so I had to make another one. With all the quilting I have been doing this past year this has been the first time I have ever managed to scorch fabric. I didn't think I had the iron on it that long. It was rather bizarre.

Then when I was sewing on the black strips to the HSTs I managed to sew one part to the red section and one part to the white section for both HSTs. Then I was looking at the instructions and was wondering why mine looked so different. So out came the seam ripper. For a simple block this one became a lot of work. Still it looks pretty good in B&W with a pop of colour.

Kathie's Week 21

I enjoyed making this block, but I definitely think it is one of those blocks that looks best as a full quilt rather than a stand alone block. I preferred to rotate the corner 4 patches 90 degrees to have the 2 inch squares form a diagonal.

Heather's 20 and 21

I feel behind again while working on an emergency baby quilt. (It was an emergency because somehow the idea of making a quilt never occurred to me until the person was in labor.)

Week 20



I like this block. Simple, easy, and could have lots of variations depending on how you placed the colors.

Week 21



Not so crazy about this as an individual block but I like the pictures on quilter's cache that show it as a whole quilt. Great secondary patterns.

In Hetty's Corner.........

Here is my block for week 21, Hayes Corner. I think I like this block, but I am not completely sure. Sometimes I have to put a block away and look at it sometime later. Then it usually looks okay. This one was easy, but with my eagerness and enthusiasm to get it done, I cut four half square triangle units and now I have two left over. Oh, well. Maybe I'll make another one of these.

Floribunda's Friday

I forgot to look to see what size the block was before I started, since I've been increasing all the 8" ones to 12" -- so this one got a little border to make it the right size. I like this one -- the gold fabric is one of my very oldest and I'm happy to see that it's almost gone now...
This block seems a bit odd to me -- I had trouble with the pattern because I reversed the lights and darks and therefore had to keep "translating" to figure out where everything went. The fabric with the crows is also an oldie. This is definitely lacking "punch", I think!

week 21

I'm really thinking its time for a week without this dang block in my life, but I've made a committment to you all sooooooooo this week I shall make Hayes corner whether I feel like it or not!