Showing posts with label BITA blocks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BITA blocks. Show all posts

Monday, June 9, 2025

 Instead of clearing out the front rooms for painting... I puttered in the cluttered and unorganized sewing area yesterday. It felt great to play with fabric.

I did drive to the Market of Marion first and got some fresh veggies. My $15 haul. Peaches, tomato, eggplant, peppers, tomatillos, zucchini, cukes and corn on the cob.


I cut out parts to make the last needed Birds in the Air Block. This has been placed in the correct spot and is ready for assembly.


I added the green big triangles to the alternate blocks from last month.


Then the bright and shiny new idea took over. Happy Village is a pattern on Accuquilt that is free for me as a member. I actually have all the dies for it as well, and decided to use the eggshell #184 Kona bolt I got from Missouri Star Quilt Company as the background. I did finish cutting out the backgrounds for the rest of the butterfly blocks before starting on this, just to make sure I had enough for those blocks to be consistent. 
The pattern uses the 8 inch Cube - shape 1 and 3. Those are the big guys. The Shoo Fly block will finish at 12 inches. I think I cut out parts for 5 blocks and was pulling different shades of blue for them.

Then the Flowering Snowball die is the curved one. This one is a fun one to hand piece. I was thinking an all blues/teals quilt. But the purple and green fabrics seem to have gotten cut? We will see, it might change back to all blues and those go into another quilt. Plenty of time to decide. I did cut out parts for 6 of the 12 inch blocks. I did go with a yellow as the center of these. I do love a touch of yellow in things to brighten it up. 


I finished listening to one audiobook (Libby) and started another. I finished 'The Book of Lost Names' by Kristin Harmel.  This was a great book.

Then I went back to a cozy mystery series of the Torrent Witches I had started on Audible by Tess Lake. I'm on book 5 - Holiday Witch. It is nice and light and cozy to listen to.





Friday, April 25, 2025

RSC in red

I finally got some red sewing in this month! 
I added 6 BITA blocks. I just need 5 more next month and then I can start assembling my rainbow of blocks.

I added the second red string of beads block this month, along with two pinks, two blues and a yellow. I have another gold yellow prepped that I'll start working on later this evening. These are hand applique. I need to add some orange, teal and maybe bright green? White would not show on the background. I plan 16 blocks for these.


This hawk was on the fence when I got home from school with Emily today. Aidan was late with some AICE testing prep after school. Emily has some AICE prep for 2 classes tomorrow morning at school. 


When I messed up making the BITA blocks back in January, I ended up with this 'Alternate' block. I really need to come up with a name for them. I added 8 in red this month.


One 16 patch block in red. I realize I need to make one more of these. I have a couple of parts made and will sew a few more as I am making the Table Scrap Challenge. I hope to link up with that Saturday afternoon.



Linking up Saturday with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.


Tuesday, April 22, 2025

A little red sewing

 I added 6 Birds in the Air blocks. I believe I only need 5 more of these and then I can start assembling them into a quilt top.


One 16 patch block got sewn as I was making these.


I also got a little prep work in on some more bead blocks. Three more backgrounds cut out and some green and gold orange peels cut and marked. 

Progress!
The audiobook in progress is The Women by Kristin Hannah.