Showing posts with label "New York Beauty quilt along" "Melody Miller" "HST" "half square triangles" "linen" "quilt". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "New York Beauty quilt along" "Melody Miller" "HST" "half square triangles" "linen" "quilt". Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

New starts

After a sad trip out this afternoon to a family funeral I was in need of some fabric therapy so I started 2 new projects. The first one is a block for the New York Beauty Quilt Along. When I saw this one advertised a few weeks ago I just knew I had to join in even though I need another project like a hole in the head! Anyway, the quilt along started properly yesterday so I'm not too far behind for a change :) I imagine that there will be lots of fabulous variations of this pattern so it will be lovely to see them all taking shape in the flickr group. I've used a print from Melody Miller's Ruby Star Shining range with some complementary solids in cotton and linen for mine and I love it! I've cut out the fabrics for 3 more blocks so I can make a full circle and might look at them tomorrow if I get chance.
The other project I started is a quilt for Angela (Wandafish), who was one of our giveaway winners. These are the fabrics I will be using. I've gone for vivid colours alongside monochrome prints. In my head this will be completely beautiful when it's finished, fingers crossed it works in reality! Well Angela, I did say that I would go multi-coloured for you so I hope this doesn't scare you too much :)
There will be many large half square triangles like these. I intend to sew more tomorrow!
Hope this week has started productively for you too :) Catch you soon x