A little bit of wonkiness…

I finished off another bee block today, this time for the String Me Along Bee. We were provided with some of Anna Maria Horner’s gorgeous Innocent Crush fabric and coordinating plains. This challenge was to make a modern log cabin which could have a little bit of wonkiness.

I made the 12″ block in no time at all…

I think I got just the right amount of wonkiness….and to be honest as usual I was fighting the order so this was just as much as I could manage!! The combination of fabrics looked really good in the finished block….I may have to pinch it.

A new project has started…

I am on holiday this week to spend some time with the children during the half term holidays but yesterday I had the day to myself. As well as doing some very boring housework jobs I was finally able to start work on using a charm pack of Anna Maria Horner Innocent Crush that I bought a few weeks ago. I have also got a double jelly roll (5 inch strips) of the fabric to play with but it’s still rolled up until I decide how to use it.

I’ve started off by using the charm pack and some bella grey solid to make a centre for the quilt - rows of triangles.

I love the way that it looks so different depending on the angle you look at it….

I’m sure there is a specific name for the blocks depending on their orientation but I’m never very good with knowing what they are called. I love it both ways and I think the fabric looks really great against the grey.

Anyway, I am trying to look at how I am going to use my strip roll to make borders etc. I think I may go for a border of grey and then a border of scrappy pieced small strips of the innocent crush followed by more grey. Hopefully I will get a chance to work on it again at the weekend when I come home from a trip to Norfolk to visit my mum!