November together again

 I'm having a lot of difficulties with zoom lately and hope that those who missed out last weekend are not too cross with me.

Our achievement was to arrange the orange squares in an acceptable design then Elaine trimmed them all to a standard size. This can now be sewn together in December. We did not progress with our medallion quilt although we did discuss a lot of options.

Our last three Rainbow Strip quilts were returned and labelled so now we can donate our pile of 8 quilts to the Chris Obrien Lighthouse Cancer Day Care centre.

Elaine gave us a great show and tell of her latest creations.

We then decided to pull out all the remaining fabrics from our basket and noticed that some of them go really well together. Deana's pretty fabric is not in this pile but has some matching partners too.

Then we decided not to choose one of these for the Christmas/New Year break but to use up some of the scraps that we know we all have. The instructions have been emailed out and Stephanie has completed her 16 blocks already. There is one 'pale' and one 'rich' in each of the 8 colours listed in the instructions.

She sent me the image saying "So here we r. NO RULES as not instructed"

I hope everyone has fun creating their blocks. If you are not able to make all 16 that is fine but the exercise in colour and relaxed cutting is great in itself. All those returned to me will be put together into quilts in the new year. They are due here by our February get together.

Instructions for Mosaic block

 

Collect:

• mosaic focus fabric supplied - F
• orange fabric supplied - O
• your choice fabric - A - which must match one of the paler colours in the focus fabric - any pale colour or tone on tone.

Cut:

Sections as per the drawing and lay them out as in the drawing and photograph. Remember that the measurements must include 1/2" seam allowance on each piece.

Construct:

You will need to sew the pieces together in sections  that create straight 1/4" seams (see below). Press all seams to the orange for the sections.

When attaching sections to the mosaic piece press seams towards the mosaic.

Your finished block should be 14 1/2" and returned untrimmed. Remember to include your stamp addressed envelope if you live in Australia.