We did have some house showings on the holiday, but I was able to get in a little bit of time with the machine. I decided to catch up on the tiny blocks for the RSC19 sampler:
The flowers are loving the heat and humidity, can you tell? I was too lazy to get down off the deck and take pictures elsewhere, so they're all with the plants today. Oh, well!
If you recall, these blocks will finish at 4-1/2 inches, so the pieces are really small. I've been trying to use as many pieces as possible from the square bins, and it's worked out pretty well. Since these pieces are so small, I can usually trim down the squares to fit, and that gives me a lot more variety, too. The squares for this checkerboard (which is my own block, not one that Angela gave a pattern for) were cut from the 1-1/2 inch squares, down to 1-3/8 so the block would be the right size.
All of the pieces for the blue blocks also came from the bins, including the accent pieces in the block on the left. The block on the right is all from the 2-1/2 inch squares. I made "cheater" hsts for the corners and then cut up a couple other squares for the side pieces. It worked! Good thing, too, because I don't have very much blue to begin with and it was just lucky to find matching squares in the bins.
The butterfly had to be cut from a bigger scrap piece, but that worked out okay, too. This guy gave me some trouble, and there may or may not have been some butterfly parts laying all over. In the end I gave up and ended up with an imperfect butterfly. But at least he's still pretty good looking! What he doesn't know is that he may get remade yet again, if I can figure out where I went wrong to begin with.
I'm so happy that pink is the July color, not just because it's one of my favorites, but also because I haven't packed that scrap bin yet. It wouldn't fit in the box with the others, so I guess I got lucky there. The first pink block was so easy that I finished it in just about 10 minutes. At that rate, I could make a whole quilt from these! But probably not at 4-1/2 inches each, though.
So, there is the result of a couple of happy hours over the holiday! It was a nice time in the AC, watching the clouds roll in and drop a little more rain, then get plenty hot again right afterward. I can think of worse ways to spend an afternoon, can't you?
Hope you're having a good weekend and staying nice and cool! Ice cream and Popsicles highly recommended!
Sharing at soscrappy for RSC19.
