Although I make most of my quilts on my sewing machine I like to have a project that I'm putting together by hand too. I like to sew whilst watching TV, so that I can kid myself I'm not being a couch potato but that I am creating something beautiful and the telly just happens to be on in the room whilst I do it.
Any fabric obsessive will be able to tell that the fabrics I'm using for these blocks are all designed by Kaffe Fassett. In fact, they are just two of his designs (Roman Glass and Paperweight) in many different colours. Of all his amazing fabrics these two perennials are perhaps my favourites. And I was surprised how many bits of them in many different colours I had.
The block is one of a number called Weathervane and I like to piece it by hand because getting all the points to meet and the seams to be accurate can be difficult. I am thinking that I'll put them together with sashing between the blocks although I haven't completely decided yet. And that's one of the great things about hand piecing- it goes at such a sedate pace that you have all the time in the world to think about settings and backings.
Hardly an opportunity for the Devil to make work for idle hands in THIS house!
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