Sewing room activity

I have been checking out my BOM blocks in readiness for the great swap out on Monday and found I had various extra bits cut out so made some spare blocks and also made enough Irish chains for a separate small quilt and some of the framed four patches for an even smaller quilt. I'll put plain setting squares between the Irish chains. I'm going to a redwork class at the Guild AGM and hope to do some simple designs on these.

BOM Month 4

In my catch up with the Quilt Show BOM I finished Month Four today.

Quilt Show BOM 02

The second month's assignment wasn't too onerous but cutting out lots of different units for the "Chain" blocks took time. However I carried on and cut out and sewed lots of units so I have a bank of pieces to draw on for the next ones. Whenever I cut pieces for the star blocks I'll cut a 1.5" short strip as well.

QUILT SHOW BOM

With the "Usual Suspects" I've embarked on the Quilt Show BOM designed by Sue Garman
http://www.thequiltshow.com/
somewhat belatedly but I have completed Month One (blocks seen here), only 11 more to do. I wonder if Ishould have a colour strategy but as we are swapping perhaps ths isn't possible anyway. I've laid out all my batiks; I'm not sure if this makes selecting easier or trickier. My main emphasis, though, is accuracy as the other four produce such beautiful work. So this is a good if slightly stressful discipline.