Lots of eye candy here. At left are Laura's blocks. Her fabric challenged people but everyone managed to come up with a great block. At right is Anne K's pastel purple with primary coloured insect fabric, featured attractively in a huge variety of ways. We loved to hate her fabric, but we did alright with it.
Cheryl had a busy button print fabric on a white background. I made her a set of spools because how can you have buttons without thread? At right is Bonnie's medium blue, which worked well with a variety of colours.
Cheryl had a busy button print fabric on a white background. I made her a set of spools because how can you have buttons without thread? At right is Bonnie's medium blue, which worked well with a variety of colours.
Audrey's gold fabric inspired several stars and Karen's two paisley prints (right) has some traditional stars and blocks, as well as the lovely crazy patch by Audrey.
Stephanie's stripes were cut in a variety of ways for these blocks: some without the blue, another without the green. My geometric one is on the top right. The little birdhouses on Anne F's fabric inspired a flurry of flying geese and birds in the air. By the time Audrey had paper pieced that fabulous cardinal (bottom right) the theme was set, and so I made the word block to reflect the theme.
Stephanie's stripes were cut in a variety of ways for these blocks: some without the blue, another without the green. My geometric one is on the top right. The little birdhouses on Anne F's fabric inspired a flurry of flying geese and birds in the air. By the time Audrey had paper pieced that fabulous cardinal (bottom right) the theme was set, and so I made the word block to reflect the theme.
We had fun explaining our reasons for these blocks. Karen used quilter's cache.com to search for blocks with our names (or as close as she could get), Anne F. always put strip piecing in her blocks to reflect our guild name (The Strip Piecers) and others of us were inspired by the focus fabric.
And one more piece of eye candy: most of us brought our hand dyed fabric to compare and show off. Several of us want another go at this, because we love the results. I suggested a challenge using the hand dyes, but most of us aren't ready to cut into them yet.
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Delicious eye candy! They were all fun to look at, but I especially enjoyed the ways people used the striped fabric. And the hand dyed fabrics are gorgeous!
Each fabric was a challenge in its own way. It was nice to have such a variety of fabrics to keep it interesting and fun!
Absolutely wonderful display of blocks! Fun stuff! 8-)
What an abundance of inspiration! The cardinal and word block are especially fun!
That's a pretty neat idea with the fabric. The blocks that people came up with are great. Your hand dyes are really bright. What kind of dye did you use?
That's a pretty neat idea with the fabric. The blocks that people came up with are great. Your hand dyes are really bright. What kind of dye did you use? oops. I accidently hit the wrong button.
Each collection has its own personality. This exchange idea turn out to be exciting and inspirational.
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