These blocks have nothing to do with my new direction in making donation blocks.
I made these with the last of my white 2.5″ squares. You can see that I am also getting short on foreground squares. Sadly I don’t have a minion to cut for me and cutting is not a favorite activity.
My plan is to make the blue and white donation quilt, then clear out my donation squares bin as much as I can before starting in on the all color postage stamp blocks.
I was thinking about how they would look at what my inspiration was. I could only think of the Patchwork Wheel blocks we made for BAM in 2012. I went look for those blocks and they aren’t quite what I was thinking about.
I have made some blocks and even a donation quilt that have less white in them. One was two colors. It isn’t a new idea to me; it just seems new because I haven’t thought about it for while.
Such pretty blocks Jaye, I like the colors a lot. And I somewhat agree on the cutting, although I find it’s a good podcast listening time when I need to cut a lot of the same shapes/sizes.
Yes, the audiobooks and podcasts really help. It just gets to be a drag if I am in the frame of mind to sew. Sometimes, I can’t think and relatively mindless cutting is a great activity.
I need cutting minions also. I like to do it in bursts with another project being sewn or quilted.