Patches of Destruxion

 Hello everyone! At the weekend, we took our kids on a day trip to Legoland Windsor, alongside my mother. This reminded me of a miniquilt I made for my Mum in 2017, so I thought this was a good time to share the story of it. In 2017, when I had gone back to work after the birth of my second child, my Mum travelled through from Essex to Oxfordshire one day a week to look after the two boys while I went to work. She did this for several months, basically until I went off on maternity leave again with my third (born November of that year). My Mum is an unashamed Adult Fan Of Lego and one of her favourite things to do with my children was (and still is) build Duplo and Lego with them. So when I decided to make a miniquilt for her birthday that year, Lego was an obvious choice of subject matter. I did some playing around in Pinterest for inspiration but ultimately decided my own design was definitely the way to go. First I built a small Duplo house for reference. Then I sketched it out ...

Hello everyone! I am joining in with Naomi Clarke's Focus Cutting Sewalong for the fifth year in a row! And I am trying to keep up with doing it every single week again.  This year we are sewing kite shapes into hexagon blocks. Here's my papers and my homemade template. I am using one-inch kites. These are one-inch along their short side. I've deliberately chosen smaller sized pieces then I have previously worked with in this sewalong. This is due to the fact that I have struggled a lot with the 'obscure sections' prompts when working with larger sized pieces, and I am hoping by going a bit smaller I will make it easier on myself. The flip side of that is that each block is only a 2-inch hexie, so it will take quite a lot to make a decent sized quilt. So on to the blocks! The January theme was the Pantone Colour of the Year 'Very Peri' (peri being short for periwinkle, the flower) but we could interpret this as any sort of purple or blue-purple that we liked...