My friend, Shannon, at
Fabrics N Quilts, recently wrote a
blog post about giving herself some ME sewing time. With all the card-sending, cookie-baking, gift-buying and box-wrapping the past few weeks, I've been wanting to run away to my studio and do some "just for fun" sewing, too.
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| Chain piecing 3.5" fabric strips. |
Shannon is working on "crumb blocks" using bits from her scrap basket. I decided to revisit a few
basic block patterns—simple construction, quick cutting, and mostly petal-to-the-metal chain piecing.
Starting with: the
snowball block.
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| Snowball blocks. |
The humble
4-patch.
Here I used small prints, tone-on-tones, and several solids in shades of gray and brown.
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| 4-patch blocks. |
And, the versatile
half-square triangle.
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| Half square triangle blocks. |
Piecing these blocks was so relaxing, therapeutic and I felt very productive. Go ahead and stitch some of those basic block patterns and you'll know what I mean. I'll post soon on how these blocks develop.
