Thursday, May 30, 2013

More Modern Blocks

At the Perth Modern Quilt Guild, we have been working our way through the Modern Blocks book. Last month, Gina asked us to make the Quatrefoil block and Danielle chased down some of the tape measure fabric for us...

Gina made a pink block, someone made a blue block, so I had to go with something else.
Yellow is not my natural colour - I have the least yellow in my stash of anything and had real trouble finding fabrics that WORKED. (I'm also extremely fussy with my colour shades matching!). I was wrestling with decisions when a naughty puppy STOLE a piece of fabric out of my scraps box and... it was the yellow that worked. Bari J Ackerman's 'mountains of Arizona' (it's not called that but that's what I think of it as - mine came from Marmalade Fabrics) worked beautifully.

The next block was Fussy Cut, and Emme asked for critters or creatures. I stretched the remit a little to include a deer and a little girl with JayCyn's Storyboek line. I LOVE this line of organic fabric. Mine is from Fabricworm.

Loved this block. May have to make some more!!! 


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4 comments:

  1. Red Quilty GirlMay 30, 2013 at 4:06 PM

    Looking good Laura. Keep up that good work! :)

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  2. GinaMay 30, 2013 at 5:47 PM

    I didn't realise the yellow was tricky for you . I love the colours in that Quatrefoil block and glad you saved the fabric from your puppy ! The Storyboek one is gorgeous .

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  3. Katy CameronMay 31, 2013 at 2:52 AM

    I find yellows such a PITA to get, there's not that many lines with just yellow in them!

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  4. NicJune 6, 2013 at 3:33 PM

    So, naughty pup was helpful for once :)

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