Fussy cutting sewalong July roundup.
Hello everyone!
I am running a couple of weeks behind with this sewalong and have not been particularly productive this past month. This is not through lack of inspiration or motivation, but more because I have been focussing on other things. Especially my kids who are off school/preschool for the holidays. So I have only made the minimum 4 for July's theme of hobbies and I didn't get them completed in time for the end-of-month giveaway. Here are my four blocks.
I kicked off the month with this block, representing my two musical instruments: piano and violin.
Music was very much more than a hobby for me for my childhood and teen years. I spent a lot of time not only practising my instruments but at various choir, orchestra, play and musical rehearsals, and playing church organ at mass. I found a couple of old photos - the first one is of me and my sister playing the recorder. I am the one on the right with the tenor (big) recorder. The second is of a Music Theory exam certificate - I started work on the Theory because I had broken my arm and couldn't play piano for a few weeks.
I still have a piano, as the picture shows, but I don't get much of an opportunity to play it these days.
On to the next week. This block shows a different sort of hobby: being a geek and enjoying Star Wars.
The section in the inner diamonds is taken from Rey's body in this fabric.
Star Wars is a big hobby for me. It is not just the films, I also like the books and particularly the video games. This is not the first time I have combined Star Wars and sewing. This fabric also fetaured in a pattern-matched hexie flower in last year's fussy cutting sewalong.
I have also participated in two mini quilt swaps with a Star Wars theme. For the first one, I was on a big hexies kick, so I designed and made 'Hexie Leia'.
The second one, I adapted a pixellated stormtrooper pattern that was doing the rounds on Pinterest to make this 'Rainbow Splatter Stormtrooper'.
But back to the fussy cutting sewalong. The third week was motifs in the outer diamonds. For this one, I revisited my childhood again.
I took ballet and tap classes for about 2-3 years as a child. I remember one particular dance in which we used umbrellas as a prop - I think it might have been the set dance for one of the grade exams. So that is what this block represents.
I am afraid I had, and still have, no talent for dancing. I am clumsy, uncoordinated and graceless. Still, it was fun at the time, and I did love all the amazing costumes.
The starflower uses fabric that I won in one of the end of month giveaways for this sewalong. So in a way it also represents another hobby - participating in this sewalong!
For my final starflower of the month, I again decided to represent my geekiness and made this depiction of the Hobbit.
I am a voracious reader and our house is so absolutely chock full of books we could open a library. Tolkien in particular is special to me. The book of the Lord of The Rings was one of the first presents my now-husband bought for me, for my 19th birthday in 2001. I have a son named for a character in the Hobbit.
Incidentally, Tolkien did some amazing illustrations that would make great quilt patterns. I would love to get round to making them some day.
So, not many blocks, but plenty of meaning in this month's offering.
August's theme is nautical/ocean/beach. The challenge for me this month is going to be doing something different than my other starflowers. Here are all the ones on this theme I have made already as a response to completely different prompts.
Thanks for reading!
I am running a couple of weeks behind with this sewalong and have not been particularly productive this past month. This is not through lack of inspiration or motivation, but more because I have been focussing on other things. Especially my kids who are off school/preschool for the holidays. So I have only made the minimum 4 for July's theme of hobbies and I didn't get them completed in time for the end-of-month giveaway. Here are my four blocks.
I kicked off the month with this block, representing my two musical instruments: piano and violin.
Music was very much more than a hobby for me for my childhood and teen years. I spent a lot of time not only practising my instruments but at various choir, orchestra, play and musical rehearsals, and playing church organ at mass. I found a couple of old photos - the first one is of me and my sister playing the recorder. I am the one on the right with the tenor (big) recorder. The second is of a Music Theory exam certificate - I started work on the Theory because I had broken my arm and couldn't play piano for a few weeks.
I still have a piano, as the picture shows, but I don't get much of an opportunity to play it these days.
On to the next week. This block shows a different sort of hobby: being a geek and enjoying Star Wars.
The section in the inner diamonds is taken from Rey's body in this fabric.
Star Wars is a big hobby for me. It is not just the films, I also like the books and particularly the video games. This is not the first time I have combined Star Wars and sewing. This fabric also fetaured in a pattern-matched hexie flower in last year's fussy cutting sewalong.
I have also participated in two mini quilt swaps with a Star Wars theme. For the first one, I was on a big hexies kick, so I designed and made 'Hexie Leia'.
The second one, I adapted a pixellated stormtrooper pattern that was doing the rounds on Pinterest to make this 'Rainbow Splatter Stormtrooper'.
But back to the fussy cutting sewalong. The third week was motifs in the outer diamonds. For this one, I revisited my childhood again.
I took ballet and tap classes for about 2-3 years as a child. I remember one particular dance in which we used umbrellas as a prop - I think it might have been the set dance for one of the grade exams. So that is what this block represents.
I am afraid I had, and still have, no talent for dancing. I am clumsy, uncoordinated and graceless. Still, it was fun at the time, and I did love all the amazing costumes.
The starflower uses fabric that I won in one of the end of month giveaways for this sewalong. So in a way it also represents another hobby - participating in this sewalong!
For my final starflower of the month, I again decided to represent my geekiness and made this depiction of the Hobbit.
I am a voracious reader and our house is so absolutely chock full of books we could open a library. Tolkien in particular is special to me. The book of the Lord of The Rings was one of the first presents my now-husband bought for me, for my 19th birthday in 2001. I have a son named for a character in the Hobbit.
Incidentally, Tolkien did some amazing illustrations that would make great quilt patterns. I would love to get round to making them some day.
So, not many blocks, but plenty of meaning in this month's offering.
August's theme is nautical/ocean/beach. The challenge for me this month is going to be doing something different than my other starflowers. Here are all the ones on this theme I have made already as a response to completely different prompts.
Thanks for reading!
Love all your geeky blocks, they all speak to me, as does the idea to quilt Tolkien's illustrations. The pattern matched Rey flower from last year is phenomenal!
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