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October – We Be With It – Walk in the woods Block

For my “We Be With It” Flickr.com group this month, I am the hostess.

Fall is my favorite time of the year – I love the crisp air in the morning & evenings, the warm sunshine during the day, and the cool nights make for great snuggling time with your honey!

So, for my block this month I have chosen the Shattered Chevron Block pattern and I am calling it “A Walk in the Woods”.  walkinthewoodsThe color palette I have chosen is black, grey, brownish for the middle chevrons (representing a path – so think rocks & dirt), and the long top and bottom pieces I would like fall foliage colors (muted yellows & greens, red, orange, brown – think fall colors).  In the tutorial for the Broken Chevrons pattern that I am referencing, they have you put a white border around the block, please do not do this. The pattern creates a 10″ (10.5″ unfinished) square.

I ran out of time last month, so I didn’t get a chance to make up a couple of actual blocks as examples, I will do that by this weekend. I hope that the illustration I have above will help you to understand my vision.

 

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It’s written in the stars

or so it’s said.

This month in one of my flickr.com groups we were given a range of colors to use but we got to pick the pattern. Now for someone (like me) who has trouble making decisions the only thing worse wold be to be give a pattern and told to pick my own colors.  So of course, I kept putting this off and putting this off – until this weekend, I had to get these done and in the mail.

On one of the other groups they are doing a Ribbon Star Block, now I am not in this group, but I fell in love with that block. So, I decided to make one for my group. Here is my version of the Ribbon Star Block using Maya colors:

ribbonStar Now, I did start out making this block for my group, but it is so hard to send it away. I love how it turned out! I have a plan for making a lap quilt using this pattern – I’m putting it on my list of things to do this winter!!!! Now you may ask yourself, just how long my list is and I wouldn’t be able to answer, it’s so long that I can’t see the start of it any longer.

So for my second block this month I choose to do a different star – a Star within a star block, again using the Maya colors. But this one turned out really nicely too.

StarInStarWell, now I get a few days off until the next blocks come out for September. I should go work on something on my list, but what fun would that be!?

 

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Flying the Victory Garden/Union Jack Flag today

2 more blocks done for this month’s “We Bee With It” flickr.com quilt block bee.

These 2 were such a challenge for me. It was sew 4 seams, rip 2 seams. One night, I got to the point of doing the last piece, the middle piece that goes all the way across. I had both blocks pinned together, sat down at the sewing machine and for some reason I looked to my left. There, sitting on the ironing board was the 2 1/2″ piece that goes across the middle of the block. The block that I was holding in my had, pinned together, loaded into my machine with the presser foot lowered and my foot on the pedal. “Step away from the sewing machine Jen! Step away!”

I lifted the presser foot, took out the block, grabbed the other one that was sitting right next to me. I then put them both over on my cutting board.  Now, here was the smartest thing I did while working on these humungous blocks…I took out all the pins and laid the middle strip in-between the half’s and walked away, turned of the lights and went to bed. Whew!!! Dodged another rip-out session there!

Came back 2 days later and just finished up the blocks. These are huge – 14.5 x 17.5 – I am used to 12.5 x 12.5 blocks at the largest. But, if I do say so myself, they turned out awesome!!!

Victory Garden
Victory Garden #2

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Quatrefoil Block

Boy I wish I could use that word on “Words with Friends”!!!

Well I couldn’t sleep last night, even with the soft rain that was falling. Could be because alls it’s done around here lately is RAIN!!!

So I got up and thought that I would see how far I could get on this months blocks…I got them done!

quatrefoil_1
quatrefoil_2

I had so much fun doing these two Bee’s this year, that I sign up for another 6 months.  I did lots of blocks and fabric colors that I wouldn’t have done on my own. What a great experience!!!!