Cathy does all the things I like to do - use up scraps! She follows the RSC each month and then some! She makes loads of different blocks each month and then when she has enough of one design of block she makes a quilt from them.
One of her recent quilt finishes was using blocks she called Twinkler blocks.
I had never heard of these blocks before and trawled back through her posts to find a pattern for them. Now, of course I can't remember where I found that but whilst I was cutting up my NZ scraps I made a pack for Twinkler blocks: 2.5" squares of all the different coloured fabrics I had and 2.5" & 1.5" cream calico squares cut from various bits and pieces of calico.
Yesterday I sewed some of these blocks together, 9 so far and I love them.
As you can see there are even some Christmas fabric scraps in the blocks but I think that just adds interest ( I did leave out the squares of red fabric with 'Merry Christmas" written all over them in gold!). I am also an avid Bonnie Hunter fan and I know she would add Christmas fabrics so, if it's good enough for her, it's good enough for little old me.
Lots more scraps left so I can happily sew some more at my Patchwork meeting on Wednesday. I bought an orange dot Fat Quarter at the Show on Thursday so I'll cut up a few squares from that to add to my orange mix.
Joining up with Nicky's Scraptastic Tuesday on mrs sew and sow blog
They look good Linda. Won't be long before you have enough for a quilt...
ReplyDeleteThose blocks are so lovely - based on a friendhip star block I gues which is one of my favourites! Thanks for linking up to #scraptastictuesday!
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