Patches of Destruxion

 Hello everybody! Another month of actually managing to keep on top of this sewalong.  This was a 5-week month and the theme was 'The Senses' with each week representing one of sound, smell, sight, taste and touch. I completed 7 blocks this week. The first week was Sound. I made two blocks. The first block is a silly one, using an animal sounds fabric from my stash.  For the centre, I used a cute pic of two of the animals who make the sounds. The second one was slightly more serious, some musical instruments - the one I play, the violin, is at the top - and a centre with the name of my favourite baroque composer, Vivaldi.  I love his Four Seasons, and previously used this fabric in the 2018 sewalong for the theme of Autumn. Here it that block sewn in to my Fussy Cutting Forest quilt. On to smell week.  This one was really difficult for me. The basic problem is, my sense of smell is pretty rubbish, even when my nose isn't totally congested by hayfever. It's not t...

 Hello everybody! Another month has gone by, and I am still managing to stick to this sewalong , so yay! I even managed two blocks most weeks. The theme this month was Gardens, and despite the Easter snow, I have actually managed to be outside in mine this month, so I have lots of lovely natural light photos, instead of my yellow light/weird phone shadow pics that I end up taking over the winter. The first prompt was identifiable motifs. I made two blocks for this one. The first one is an Aldi fabric, that came as part of a bundle which I actually bought for the other fabrics in it. But I very much believe in working with what I've got, and it made a lovely flower garden block. The second one is a Lewis and Irene fabric called 'Grandma's Garden'. I bought this one when I needed more purples for my Rainbow Hexies quilt (pic in my  February post ).  It felt particularly apt the week I made it, as my mother (who is Grandma to my kids) had been posting lovely pictures of th...

 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 ...

Hello everybody! I am running late on this post, because at the end of February, I managed to break the fourth finger on my right hand.  So even though I managed to make all the blocks on time, typing has been painful, so it wasn't worth the effort of a blog post.  But my finger is recovering quite well now, so I feel up to typing again. February's theme in the #focuscuttingsewalong was 'Getting to know you'. In general, I don't get on very well with more abstract themes, and I  dislike enforced icebreakers. But as the month went on, I got into it a bit more, and in the end I made 6 blocks during the four weeks of February.  The prompt for the first week was 'Home'.  I really struggled with this one as I just found the concept so abstract. I eventually settled for a very mixed bag.  The top 3 half-hexies represent my three children as best I could from my stash. Two of them are perfect, but I need to embroider wings on to the lion to make that one more acc...