Over the last few days, I worked on my Harriet's Journey blocks of the month and made a couple of "secret pal" gifts from scraps. It feels good to have these blocks of the month done with days to spare.
Each month I try to make eight blocks from Jennifer Chiaverini's new sampler book. These are assigned by Dotty D., another quilter on the quiltingboard.com who has organized a sew along. My friend Beth also belongs. This month's 6" blocks were fairly straightforward, except one was a fiddly applique and another was too complex for me to even contemplate. So I got out Pat Sloan's Splendid Sampler and chose two blocks that I hadn't made while working on that quilt a couple of years ago.
I love the "Moody Bloom" fabric I'm using for this sampler, but sometimes the larger prints don't show up as well as they might with larger blocks. That's why I substituted the blocks with the large floral center and tiny hourglasses. For the hourglasses, I made larger ones and cut each one down to 2" square. I also tried to use snippets of most of the fabrics I have in the block with the heart in its center (which I did hand applique). This was a fun set of blocks to make.
For my secret pals, I made a mug rug to send soon in a mug rug swap and a zipper bag to hold the things I'm sending later this summer to another quilter in a birthday swap.
Both projects were made with 2" and 2.5" squares and Vermont "license plate" panels. Sorry I didn't get a photo of the mug rug which had 2" squares with a license plate on one side and 2.5" squares on the other. Neither made a dent in my stash of scrap squares!
This leaves me wondering what to work on today. Maybe an appliqued block to exchange at the state guild meeting in the fall?
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