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#focuscuttinsewalong March 2021 roundup

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 Hello everybody! The theme this month in the focus cutting sewalong was Books.  This was a great theme, I had loads of possibilities spring to mind instantly as soon as it was announced. We own a lot of books. Like a few thousand - no exaggeration. That's what happens when an historian and a publishing professional get married, although we were still students when we married, and we already owned a decent proportion of the books back then. I could have made tons of blocks on this theme, but due to the previously mentioned broken finger, I decided to play it safe, and just make 1 block per week.  It was a 5-week month, so here are my five blocks. The first week, our prompt was identifiable motifs.  For this one, I decided I had to go with the one fabric I owned that actually had book motifs. The overall fabric has a beachy motifs, it also features deckchairs and badminton rackets. But the beauty of focus cutting is you pick a single element to highlight to fit your own theme, whic