Zombie blocks

So I was wide awake this morning at 4 am and decided to get up and have a cup of tea and finish these half blocks! These will go on either side of another set of blocks for the final pieced border on the Saturday Sampler.

I am feeling like a zombie right now.  Too early mornings will do that to a girl.

August

 

Catching up on Saturday Sampler blocks

 All of these blocks are for the Saturday Sampler at my LQS, Fabrics Etcetera.  They are 6.5 inches.

 These are the July blocks.

These are from June.

And these are the May blocks.

I've started on the finishing kit-maybe I'll start sewing these into rows after I finish Chocolatier.

April blocks

 I didn't get a lot of sewing done in the latter part of April-a dreadful cold descended upon my family-so I was knocking out these Saturday Sampler blocks the night before they were due!  I wish these were Civil War prints as I think this would have been a great quilt for my brother.

More blocks and purple

Last shop hop block.  This fabric is Northcott Canvas for the nearly solids, Colorworks Premium Solid Ultra Black & Benartex Creation for the focus fabric.   

Dry fit for the Purple Menace

Blocks for the Saturday Sampler

 

February blocks

 I got up early this morning and finished the February blocks for the Saturday Sampler.  I feel very accomplished as we only received the pattern on Saturday morning!  I'm still sewing on my HD-1000 as my poor Janome Horizon is waiting on a new power supply and circuit board that is on a boat somewhere in the Pacific.  I'm working on improving my piecing accuracy as this machine does not allow me to move the needle to achieve a scant 1/4 inch.  Now that I've finished with these blocks I'm thinking about pulling out my Cynthia England projects and working on them with my Featherweight.

the game is afoot!

 Get it? a foot?  Oh well, the O 1/4 inch foot did pretty well last night.

It is a little wider than 1/4 inch.  I asked DH to bend the metal guide a bit as it flares outwards which makes the seam more than 1/4 inch.  I prefer a scant 1/4 especially when I am sewing pieces cut with my Accuquilt dies. I'll test it again tonight but I'm feeling optimistic.  This block is made out of leftover sample pieces from my LQS Saturday Sampler.  I normally use my Accuquilt qube to cut out pieces for the samplers but I cut the chisels so they faced the wrong way. I decided to use them for this sample.

This second block is the correct pattern sample that I sewed on QBFF's machine.  It is, however, too small.  This blocks should be 6.5 inches and this is just under 4.5.  I really don't want to buy another Qube-they have gotten so expensive! So I may rotary cut my sampler blocks this year.