Lilysunshine

I actually finished my blocks for this week 2 days ago, but I haven’t been able to sit down and write about them until now – I did do quite a bit of knitting (I can finally see the end of my Arielle!).

This week’s assignment was a log cabin block and a mosaic using half-square triangles. I was pretty excited about the mosaic one, not so much about the log cabin. I am not a fan of log cabin blocks, and I really dislike the wonky ones. I do like the normal log cabins when they are not over the top with prints and when the quilter achieve some nice contrast and / or value effect.

It took me forever to decide which fabrics to choose and then it took me forever to have all the cutting done. I decided to go the green way for the log cabin, starting with a little bit of fabric that was left over from the previous weeks. For the mosaic, I decided that it would be nice to use the orange background one for the middle contrasting squary bit.
All cut up

As you can see, I replaced the solid with my dotty fabric.

Those blocks took forever to sew – while painstakingly hand sewing them, I was dreaming about the sewing machine I will buy hopefully towards the end of the summer. I’ve got plenty of quilt tops ideas, but I’m seriously slowed down by the lack of machinery.
But, I managed to sew them all up. And they turned out quite nicely. My corners and alignments are not perfect on the mosaic one, but I will probably be the only one to know / notice. And I have to say, I quite like my log cabin!
My blocks for week 4

I like how the prints work together in the log cabin. You would think that they shouldn’t work, but they do. I think that’s because of the pale blue in the outer strips that reminds of the stronger blue in the centre strips. And the mosaic is just cute.

All my blocks

I had to be quick to take this picture, because Lucas REALLY likes the owls print! I’m thinking about getting some in blue to make him some stuff.
I really like how all the blocks are working together!

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