Umm, how did we get to September? It was July five minutes ago…Oohh dear.
Has everyone been enjoying Sewing Bee this year? I’ve not posted about it much because of the danger of giving away spoilers for those that may not have watched it. All I’m going to say is that my front runners are Kit and Caz.
I’ve been doing lots of little bits of sewing this past month, some of which is secret, and I won’t be able to share it with you until it’s been gifted.
But I have been making progress with my Tumbling Cosmos. In fact, I’ve got the main piecing of it done, I’m now squaring off the edges, before I add the borders…
I then treated myself to a little side quest. A pattern that I’ve had in my stash for some time. The Heart Burst mini by Libs Elliott, and I did mine in her fabrics…
It gave me that little dopamine hit of finishing a project that I needed. There is nothing more satisfying than making something in a short space of time.
It’s now on the coffee table in the lounge at home.
In the past month I’ve completed another two Cherish blocks…
Made five more Focus Cutting Sewalong blocks with the letters P & Q…
And read four books and made four more Lucky Star blocks (these are for the first four books of the Throne of Glass Series)…
Thinking ahead to a quilt-a-long or sewalong for next year (I know…), I’ve been inspired by someone I follow on Instagram, they do a thing called ‘colour me Monday’, where they have a pot of pencils that determines what make-up ‘look’ they do (it’s weird that I follow them, because I do not wear make-up). Sometimes the results are good, and sometimes downright awful.
Long story short, I’m planning on something along the same lines but choosing six colours each week, and making a block in EPP. Yours can be in FPP, normal piecing, or EPP too (I plan on giving suggestions of blocks). I’m intending on it being a bit of a stash buster for some people (myself included). You wouldn’t need to use all of the chosen colours, but it’ll be fun if you can.
You’d end up with 50-52 blocks, depending on when it starts/ends. What do you think? Sound like fun? Watch this space…
I’m going to end this month’s post with Julia’s quilt that she’s made using the two Superbloom ombré prints by Robin Pickens…
