Still Swamped

In order to ignore the excessive rain we're getting(5" in 24 hours), I cut out some extra squares and rectangles of the batiks I'd pulled to make myself some more Swamp Blocks. Then the studio assistant arrived to make sure I was putting them together correctly.

Catus-Interruptus created an emergency stop. Sure enough, I had one of the pieces turned the wrong way around. He's occasionally helpful.

After some discussion he finally allowed me some space. 

I've received a couple more Quilt Mavs blocks, and a there's a few more remaining. With these additional blocks it'll make for a nice throw of some sort. Maybe if I get crazy with a giant border, a small bed sized quilt.

Swamped Out

 I powered through and got all the cutting done and then the piecing was pretty much a breeze.

This is a very easy block to make. Although I managed to mess it up no less than two times, requiring a little un-sewing. 

I laid all of them out at once to make sure there weren't too many fabric repeats happening in a particular block.

Here are the eight blocks that I made. Seven to send out and one to keep for myself.

And here are my eight blocks plus the three I've already received from two Quilt Mavs. I love how the block just absolutely disappears when you place them together.

Swamp Time

 

One of the online quilt groups I belong to, Quilt Mavericks, occasionally does block swaps. We actually call them Swamps instead of Swaps. I believe that's because of a long-ago typo that I've forgotten the details of. One of those inside joke kind of things. Anyways...We've done this particular block a couple of times, but we're doing another round using mostly batiks.  I've already received these three blocks and I need to make my own and get them mailed out.

Time to get to cutting, I forgot how much I love cutting out batiks. This fabric is so much easier to rotary cut.

I still have quite a collection of batiks to choose from. They're mostly from the color of the month batik club from eQuilter I belonged to many years ago. Equilter is still running this club, I recommend joining for a while if you're interested in batiks. The selection was always so interesting, a good mixture of darks to lights which I always struggle with choosing not just all mediums.

I used a lot of them making the Solstice Quilt, but there are still plenty of them to choose from.

Star Blocks

I recently made a couple of blocks for quilts being made for online friends who need them. 

I tried out one of the new dies I've purchased for the Sizzix, and I was very pleased with how they turned out. It makes it very easy to sew these types of triangles together with the points cut off.

I haven't tried all three of them yet, just the one on the left. I rotary cut the squares as I haven't bought a square die yet, but I just might. The Sizzix is so much more accurate than I am. Which is the whole point of the thing really!