Monday, February 28, 2011

scattered blocks

The washing machine is still running so I have some time to blog even it is late. We were on the go almost all day, but I took my midterm exam - yeah. I can breath again and can get to the next ten chapter in my business college book. It was a crazy day and a lot of things did not work out this morning as they were supposed to, especially not - ID REQUIRED for testing. I usually NEVER leave the house without my driver license and my military id, but today I had neither. Well, that got solved, too, and after my 5th trip in town today we were even done with soccer training by 7 pm and an almost empty gas tank.
Now Bella is up for TAKS testing tomorrow morning, at least she is smart and doesn't stress about test as I do. Good girl!

There was no time for sewing, but I dug out a box with unfinished blocks :) - perhaps I am able to figure out how to finish these up instead.


Almost all my yellow and orange pieces of fabric are collected in a special basket to be on hand for working on an old project. It used to be New York Beauty, because I loved to paper piecing and this pattern actually was the very first paper piecing I ever did a long time ago. It was also first of the very few classes I ever took in the the very first quilt store I visited in my husband's hometown. Years later I started on these blocks and am up to 12 by now. There are 2 or 3 more started, but I think I am out of the paper piecing mood. Still I would like to piece these blocks together, but I am unsure how. Shall I stick with adding the preplanned triangles as the pattern tells or find something more unusual? The colors are very bright and the fabric I intended to use to add the blocks together would have been either a darker purple, dark grey or black. Any ideas?

4 comments:

  1. Allmächdna - die hab ich ja schon ewig nicht mehr gesehen. Keine Ahnung bzw. Geistesblitz - im Moment erfreu ich mich daran die tollen Blöcke anzusehen......

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  2. Hi
    Love your New York Beauty blocks. Black would make the blocks pop, not that I'm an expert.
    I love trawling blogs especially overseas ones.
    Keep up the good work.
    TrishJ, Melbourne, Australia

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  3. New York Beauty ist wunderschoen, und die Farben find ich auch klasse..

    Ich hab mich an den noch nicht rangetraut

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  4. Whichever colour you use will help set the 'mood' for the quilt so find a couple of strips in each of those colours, make a cross with each pair of strips and place a block in each of the corners of the cross to give you an idea of what it would look like. You'll soon know which appeals most to you :).

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