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Focus cutting sewalong 2026 month 4 roundup

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Hello everybody! Another 4 weeks have gone by in the #focuscuttingsewalong, so it is roundup time again. This month our theme was the colour pink. Despite not having that much pink in my stash compared to other colours, I made 10 blocks in total. So here are this month's blocks in detail! Week 13 was identifiable motifs. I made three blocks. I very much have a childhood theme going on here! For the individual pics of these, I decided to take them next to some pink fruit blossom that is coming through in my garden. I am not 100% sure what type of fruit it is, and won't be until I actually see the fruit, but my current best guess for this tree is plum. First up these bears: This fabric is one from my own childhood that my mum gave to me at one point a few years ago. I also have it in blue. I particularly like the bear with the balloons. Next up, Alice in Wonderland. I am a big fan of the Lewis Carroll Alice stories - they will feature again in the blocks this week. For this block...
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Ma uka to Ma kai Exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum

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Hello everyone! Today I went to visit the Natural History Museum and Pitt Rivers Museums in Oxford. It was my first time going back there since our move back to Oxfordshire, and I was delighted to discover an exhibition of Hawai ʻ ian Quilts had been added to the Pitt Rivers museum. Hawaiian quilts have a very distinctive, instantly recognisable style. They are characterised by striking appliquéd shapes with 8-fold symmetry. Often the appliquéd part is a single piece of material, with the shape created by folding it in 8 before cutting (much like making paper snowflakes). They traditionally feature shapes inspired by nature, such as breadfruit, pineapples and marine life. They are then often quilted with quite dense echo quilting - concentric shapes following the outline of the design. For those not familiar, the Pitt Rivers Museum is the result of a crazy archeologist/ethnologist called General Augustus Pitt Rivers who collected anything and everything from everywhere in the latter h...
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Focus cutting sewalong 2026 Month 3 roundup

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Hello everybody, Another 4 week block is over in the #focuscuttingsewalong. This month our colour has been orange. I have made 10 blocks in total. As you can see, the weather has finally cooperated enough for me to take some outside pics. Not every week though, I haven't been quite that lucky. This month I have been trying to experiment with creating different shapes with the patterns within the blocks, to some success. So here's the weekly breakdown! Week 9 was Identifiable Motifs. I made three blocks. As is obvious from this particular selection, my orange stash has quite a high proportion of Halloween fabrics in it. This is because many of them were collected for use in my ongoing Halloween La Passacaglia quilt .  First up, these castles. This is actually a Harry Potter licensed fabric, and the castle is specifically Hogwarts. I am a fan of all the turrets in this depiction of it. Next, spiders (you have been warned if you need to scroll past the next pic). These do look lik...
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