October 2022 #focuscuttingsewalong roundup
Hello everybody! This month on the sewalong our theme has been the UN International Day of Cotton. The majority of people doing patchwork work with cottons so the idea of this theme was to keep us mindful of where our fabric comes from and the processes that go into bringing it to us. I have had a very productive month, and I made 13 blocks all together. There's only 12 in this picture, because I have annoyingly misplaced one block, so I can't put it in the group pics, but you will see it individually later on. For week 39 the prompt was our Earliest cottons. The idea was to use fabrics from early projects or that we had had for a long time. I found this week really enjoyable, as I love using fabrics to make connections between people and my own projects. I made 3 blocks. First up, this circle of bears. This first one uses an old fabric that used to belong to my mother. She bought it in about 1984-5 when we were living in California. She used it in several quilts when we were c