L&L Pink & White

 

Back to finishing up my fabric pull for the mystery quilt, Lupine & Laughter. The pinks are pretty and they have a huge range all the way from loud magenta to quieter peach pink and they cover all my eras of sewing as well. I think they'll work out. Are some of them maybe meant for the purple stack because they're actually a lot closer to lavender? Well, yes and we'll see how they're meant to be used.

Well, after seeing this picture, a lot of the black/white prints are really quite dark compared to everything else. I definitely do not have enough of the sort of white background prints to work with for this as was suggested by Bonnie K. Hunter in her instructions. So...I may have to substitute and use gray instead, as I have a whole lot of those that might be better. I just wanted the white/black, or W.O.W. that I had to work out. I'll have a look through my other bins to see if there are some white background with other colored prints that might be worth auditioning. I'm pretty sure that I have some but they're probably sorted with the colors.

This is a pretty good side-view picture of the whole fabric pull. I can definitely see some particular fabrics that jump out way too much to my eye that may not get used for this quilt. We shall see as I start piecing.

Checkerboard BOM

Here's my fabric pull for the BAMQ BOM that's running now through next year. I've chosen all prints in dark to light grays. Will I perhaps use some solids or even my hand-dyes? Perhaps. Will I put a little spot o' color in there? Maybe. Or maybe just maybe the quilting thread that I use will be all neon colors.

This was the first month's BOM block, a creation I came up with using HSTs. The idea was to make more than one of these, but altering the position/direction of at least one of the units that incorporates two HST blocks.

To test that idea out, I made another 12 HSTs

 out of the remainder of the 2.5" strips I'd used to make the first block. 

In this second version of it, which I also liked quite a lot. I really do find that HSTs are very very fun to play around with. See below to see how the two blocks look next to each other.

The new block this month is: Checkerboards. Which I am always drawn to (probably due to my late 70's Ska obsession). Making the checkerboard border in the Old Town Mystery quilt was very happy-making for me even though it took quite a while to accomplish. I truly love the look of it. So, here's my Checkerboard block for the BOM made out of 3" squares.