squeeeee! – I’m over at Rhonda’s!

I’m so excited to be guest posting today over at Rhonda Quilter In The Gap, as part of the Finish-Along, with a potentially genius HST trick tute.

If I sound dubious about the merits of my own tutorial, it’s because I really am! I can’t quite believe that there isn’t some dreadful maths mistake in the whole concept … but I can’t for the life of me see it, and it works brilliantly for me. 

… Please come and let me know what you think over at Rhonda’s ….

Shots & Spots

…  having a little {slow} fun with my Oakshott charm pack and the spots & dots charm pack I cut from stash.  

Anyway … I've been sneaking 10 minutes here and 1/2 an hour here - really no longer - I'm like a speed tasker now!  All are sewn and half are trimmed. Here's a sprinkling …



All wrapped up in a cheapo fingernail-snaggingly nasty £1.50 fleece from IKEA, which has now become my travelling design wall.  Just lay em out and roll em up.  Marvellous.

Even while I was sewing these babies I was still a bit meh about the mix of dots and shots, but now that I've pressed and trimmed I'm all in love again.  What you miss from any photo is the divine shot-ness of the cotton.  What you get from a photo is the saturation the dots bring to what is quite a subdued set of colours in the shot cottons.

No pinwheels or such malarkey.  I'm just going to keep it simple and let them sing together as naked HSTs.  I'm not even going to agonise over colour value.  I'm just going to piece them as they come.  I won't have another chance to work on it until next week, so this is a nice place to leave it simmering …

What do you think?  Should I spend some time working out the layout/being clever?  Or should I go with my lazy instincts?!

Don't forget you can enter my giveaway here for a chance to win some spotton dotton cotton for yourself too … runs till Thurs 5th …

shot cottons and dottons … and a festival of HSTs!

I've finally started to play with my Oakshott shot cotton charm pack … (other than just stroking them)



.... just in time for the festival of half square triangles ... over at canoe ridge creations from April 2nd!! Squeee!


 

 


Last year I embraced the HST with open arms (and a niftily concealed seam ripper).  I find the whole cutting, sewing, cutting, trimming thing rather therapeutic.


This year I've continued the journey with a massive swoon block and now this … whatever 'this' is … it's still at fledgling stage …

but more of that another day …