Some Saturday Sewing

Master 2 (almost 3) was out and about today so I had some time alone. Of course, I spent it sewing. Something I haven't done all week.

I got this shabby chic baby quilt top finished.

Polaroid 9 patch block for Fiona at Finding Fifth. She is in the QCA Bee # 1 group and this is her block for February. She is going to use these blocks to make a quilt to donate to a child who has lost everything in the recent bushfires here in Australia. I'm not in her Bee group but as I want to do more charity sewing this year, and I have lots of polaroid blocks from the Say Cheese! Polaroid Block Swap, I decided to make her a block. You can find her tutorial here.

Last night I was looking at all things Nightshade online, looking for some quilt inspiration for these fabric remnants I was given (that's right....given) by my local quilt shop. So after I packed up and was waiting for Master 2 to return I had a bit of fabric play.

I also have some of the other prints to put with this. At this stage I'm thinking of doing random improv blocks of different sizes and then just filling the spaces between with a tone on tone black print. What would you do with it?

Picture Perfect

Last week I signed up for Quiet Play's Say Cheese! Polaroid Block Swap. I had recently been admiring these little blocks over at Jaffa Quilts so it didn't take much persuasion for me to join up. 

They are really quick and easy to make using a chain piecing method. You can find the tutorial here. They are also fantastic for using up those small scraps as the centre piece is a 2.5" x 2.5" square. 

It only took me about an hour to make all of these yesterday afternoon. Very addictive. Thank goodness Kristy set a limit of 50 to send into the swap. I think I could make hundreds of these from my scrap bins alone. 

I made these to start my collection. I think I might make a small quilt for Master 2. Note the Batman ;)