September 2022 #focuscuttingsewalongroundup
Hello everybody! It's been a strange month in the sewalong. The theme was Books, which I was really looking forward to, however this was interrupted for two weeks while we paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. I found this second theme very difficult in terms of creating blocks, as I had already used up my more obvious royal fabrics during the Platinum Jubilee . And it meant we didn't get to do all the Books stuff I wanted to do. Nevertheless, I made 3 blocks on the theme of Books, and 3 on the theme of Queen Elizabeth II. Week 35 was Identifiable Motifs and Books. I made two blocks. The first one is, very obviously, Winnie the Pooh. We have just finished reading this very battered copy of Winnie the Pooh to my daughter. I grew up with the two AA Milne poetry collections, When we were Very Young, and Now We Are Six. As well as an audio book version of the original Disney cartoons of Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. So these books were