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#focuscuttingsewalong 2021 Unfinished months roundup

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Hello everyone, It's got to the end of the year, and there are still four months for which I haven't finished all my #focuscuttingsewalong blocks. Those were August/September, September, October and December. I am clearly not going to get them finished by the end of the year. So I thought I would show you the blocks I have done for those months so I have got them all recorded. August and September were divided up so there were actually three themes between the two months. I covered the main August theme of Human in my post here . The August/September theme was Memories. I managed blocks for two out of the three prompts included in this 'month'. First up, identifiable motifs. I made this chess block. The central hexie is pieced from two plain fabrics to feel like a chess board. My Dad is a very enthusiastic chess player, so this block is all about the memories I have playing chess with him growing up. I am afraid that despite practice, I don't seem to have a lot of s

November #focuscuttingsewalong roundup

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Hello everyone! I did actually keep up with this sewalong for the whole of November! But I have otherwise been so busy that I didn't get around to writing my post about it. So here are my five November blocks on the theme of Fabric. The first week was 'just because' fabric.  This was for using fabric that we had bought 'just because' with no clear project or idea for using it in mind. So I went with Angry Birds Star Wars fabric. Because there is never a good reason to buy this, especially as it's a game I never played (I am a Star Wars fan and a gamer, but Angry Birds is not actually my type of game) and yet for some reason I bought two different fat quarters on two separate occasions. It is really cute fabric, though. So I could hardly pass up this opportunity to actually use it. Next we had fabric from our earliest project.  My actual earliest projects are from over 30 years ago, so for me this was about finding an earlier project from which I still had some f