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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Hope of Hartford

Major Catch-up!

September was a busy month, with an out-of-town visitor and two weeks of travel -- so I fell woefully behind. But I'm happy to say that I'm now almost caught up! Here they are in order:

Northumberland Star -- week 33: I hated making this block, and I don't think there's enough value contrast between the red and the brown.
Rally Round -- week 34: I decided that the 9" blocks are now going to be made with Asian fabrics. This one was a pain to make, too, mostly because I did the little triangles wrong the first time -- but I really love the way it came out!
Castle in the Air -- week 35: One of my favorite blocks. Maybe it's the name?
Hope of Hartford -- week 37: I LOVE this block!
Nelson's (spotty) Victory -- week 38: easy to make, but I don't see much potential for it in a scrappy quilt.
Fool's Square -- week 39: I sort of like the "transparency" effect in this one but other than that I think it's sort of clunky...
Now I'm just missing weeks 29 and 36 -- maybe by next weekend I'll be done with all of them.

Victorious Fool in Hartford

Here are the last three weeks worth of blocks done during the wee hours this morning.

Week 39~ Fool's Square-Made with leftover half square triangles and 2&1/2" squares from my scrap bin. It goes with nothing and will be added to my growing collection of orphans.



Week 38~ Nelson's Victory-Or maybe I should call it Nelson in Drag! Very feminine fabrics. I made this with leftovers again so it measures 8" and I didn't bother reading the directions.



Week 37~Hope of Hartford-I'm hopeless. For this one I carefully read the directions and followed them.....I thought. Somehow my color placement ended up wrong and the darn thing is spinning in reverse. Oh well, just hold it up to a mirror and it will be correct.



At least I got through all three of these block without ever using my seam ripper. That's a major accomplishment for me!

Hope of Hartford

I didn't have the foresight to make my 10 inch blocks out of any particular color scheme. I laid them all out and most either have green, yellow, or pink in them so I decided to make this block with all those colors. I picked a green that has pink, orange, and yellow spirals on it. I didn't fussy cut it though so when I made the block the spirals mostly disappeared. I'm not a fan of this block in real life but the picture makes it look presentable.

Two ways to hope of Hartford

I made this block following directions, and then made it as a 12 inch block as a variation of a friendship star. Which do you prefer? I've been making the 10 and 12 inch blocks with the marbled fabric to fit in with a mystery challenge my guild did last year.

Here's another 12 incher, made using mistakes and leftovers from other block party blocks. This makes the 19th block with this fabric, and I'm now done.

Below is my row of 10 inch blocks which I'll need to upsize to 12 inches to fit my other challenge blocks. Check it out at http://scrapsandstrings.blogspot.com/.

Hope of Hartford

I was amazed as to how quickly this block came together and even the bias seams were a breeze. I had mentioned the last time we had a 10" block that I should dig out all my 10" blocks and take a picture of the group of them.

So here they are. The very first block we did was a 10" and mine was a bit short so I may have to redo that one or figure out something different for that block when it comes to putting this quilt together. I probably will need another 7 10" blocks to have enough for a lap size quilt with borders, since right now it would only measure 30" X 30" without the borders. If I took it to a 40" X 50" and add borders that would make it a decent size. Any ideas or suggestions?

Hoping Hartford Will Be Pleased

A nice block - easy and good looking! Sounds like me! he,he,he!

I was excited when I saw this week's block. It has a central square of fabric, so I immediately thought of the kids blocks I have been doing. It was late last night when I started it and I thought my 10-inch blocks were my kids blocks. But halfway through the block I realized that it's my 9-inch blocks that have the novelty fabrics and my 10-inch ones that are done in batiks. So I made one using kids novelty fabric........

....and another in batiks. I like them both.

Around and around the mulberry bush....

This block was nice and easy... What I learned this week is that the original placement of the light and dark triangles that make up the half square are the key to the direction of spin the star takes on....

week 37

This week's block looks like a double friendship star to me.... on Quilter's Cache its called Hope of Hartford. Doesn't look too difficult at all :-)