It never did turn into Covid (thankfully), but I am left sounding like a seal that’s on 30 a day! I sound worse than I feel. So many people have said they’ve been struck down, or they know someone that has. I’m SO glad that I had my flu jab, because I have a feeling it could’ve been a lot, lot worse.
Anyhoo…
The tackathon for Galaxy has finished, and I am now tacking all the hexagons and squares I need for connecting shapes for both sewalongs that I am doing next year.
The squares are to join my honeycomb blocks together for the Focus Cutting Sewalong 2023 – and it will only be about 24” square before borders! I redid the maths, and it’s made me really happy.
The hexagons are for my Kaleidoscope Sewalong – there’s 136 of them. I’ve tacked 82 of them, just 54 left to go. With this in mind I can share the theme for January with you!
Sense of Place? What? This was the theme for the first module I did when I took A Level Photography (seems so long ago now). There’s more info on the Kaleidoscope Sewalong page on the website.
In amongst all the tacking for sewalongs, I managed to stitch up a rather rotund robin…
He’s made from 1.5” (I think) pelmet vilene lined pentagons. He is stuffed, but he could do with a little more. Why did I make him? Well, I saw a post on the UKQU (UK Quilters United) Facebook page and had to have a go for myself. I now intend to make a smaller one, and produce a pattern for the shop in time for Christmas next year.
I’ve also done my last two blocks for Focus Cutting Sewalong – there is another week, but as I’ll be in Crawley with family, and the fact I don’t have space for another two, so I’m calling it quits for 2022.
We were back to working with obscure sections. So, with this in mind here are the blocks…
And here are the fabrics I used…
One is a Moda fabric from about six years ago, and the other is a Hoffman Fabrics (we think) print from even further back – let’s put it this way I did a reverse image search on Google and it yielded no results whatsoever.
I now have the task of building up the edges before I border and quilt it. I’m still hoping to enter it into the spring Malvern quilt show, but I have no idea when the deadline is. I will have a check.
And on that note, I must wish you, dear readers, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I will be back with a bumper post in the new year, after the shop’s annual sale. Thank you 2022, it’s been a weird one!