I am a devoted ET Entertainment Tonight watcher, I can hum you the intro and very Pavlovian like, I will drop what I’m doing and focus on the screen as soon as it sounds. . .but there is even a limit to how many times I can hear/read the same gossip story. My bi-monthly hair dresser visit supplies said gossip magazines. Now the anticipation I show for going to the hairdressers so I may devour each of those magazines might have you calling me a liar. . .but honestly, by the time I flip through the second magazine my eyes have glazed over and my thoughts begin to wander.
Knowing this, I’m usually good at packing a little project but this was the day I forgot. So I as sat with the glossy still on my lap, I started thinking about quilts, remembering my month was coming up as Queen on the StashBee and I was still on the fence about what block I wanted to use. . .so I put down that glossy and made a rough sketch. As soon as I made it home, I pulled out my scraps and started cutting. . .
I loved this block, so I made another. . .
and then a third!
My tutorial for my block is still on the StashBee here: September 2014 StashBee but after I made a couple extra blocks to finish off the quilt I came up with a little shortcut I thought I would share here:
Gather your fabrics, 8 low volume and 8 in your colour of choice, cut them to 2″ wide and line them up. **remember each quadrant needs to finish at 8.5″ so you can cut the length of your 2″ strips to a maximum of 8″.
Using a 1/4″ seam join the low volume strip to it’s coloured strip, now you can trim to the required length using an 8.5″ square ruler:
almost there:
and continue with the tutorial on the StashBee Blog.
Here is a rather crumby picture of the quilt ready to baste. . .
Binding is Millefiori by Sarah Fielke and waiting.
So I’ve never really come up with a name for this quilt. . .what do you think? Any suggestions other than “THX to KK’s bum”. Yup, I’m that desperate 😉
Love these blocks, what a great selection of low volume blocks.
Must say I think your proposed name for the quilt is a winner!
LOL, we have a vote for KK’s bum – I think it will always be called that 🙂 this was a stashbee block and all the girls were awesome at giving me some of their best pieces!
Hmmm… Spot On? XOX? (The negative space makes nice X’s)… I do kind of like your proposed name, too. 😉
I like ‘spot on’, I think you may be ‘spot on’ with that one. . !
Paint balls?
I too have been reading the gossip mags – with my dad in doctors’ waiting rooms. Admittedly, I suspect they are usually a year out of date, but very funny conversations ensue. Dad is still reeling from the shock that KK married a guy with the surname of West and then gave her son the first name of North.
Yes! My poor dad had this incredulous look on his face. . .you know he was struggling with the thought that there are people worth so much dough yet so soft. I’m sorry your dad’s not 100%, I wish a speedy recovery and a subscription to a humour inducing glossy rag of his choosing!