Again this year I played in the Stawell Quilters fat quarter swap for the Christmas dinner. A fat quarter is given in a brown paper bag with your name on earlier in the year, the bags are put in a basket and randomly distributed to each player and a present is made for the person whose name is on the brown paper bag with/incorporating their contributed fat quarter. I got someone I didn't know "HS" who had put in an interesting piece of fabric and was relying on my friend's knowledge of her likes. Then I met her briefly at the Quilt Show and took particular notice of the quilts she had hanging (and her challenge piece). My first thought at the start was to make a block keeper and I wavered back and forth and mucked about with patterns and ideas and in the end came back to my original - and made a block keeper. I had found a
watercolour type fabric in Spotlight not long after the paper bags were
distributed which had exactly the right colours in it but I struggled with how to re-imagine the given fabric...which I really liked by the way...
Then inspiration struck and I came up with a dresden plate...
(I had to pinch a picture from the Group as I forgot to take one of it finished)
I was happy with how it turned out...not so much the project pocket that was to go with it that we won't discuss (it is still on the sewing table thinking about its bad behaviour!)...and HS said she didn't have a block keeper and was happy with it...she likes circles which I'd forgotten about from the Club challenge but which must have been there in the sub-conscious!!
While a little stressful thinking what to make I do like this swap and hope the Group continues with it...if you are on the BookFace and search Stawell Quilters Inc all the lovelies that were made from the fat quarters are on the Christmas Dinner post, I have no idea how to link to that particular post and BookFace is tiresome so I'm not going to even try.
Happy Stitching...
4 comments:
Annette what a clever way to use the fat quarter; love it!
great use of that fabric.... it's lovely but I would have found it challenging... you did well
Hugz
You are very clever. We had a similar group swap and there was a great deal of head scratching on my part lol!
It can be so hard to make that perfect something for people we don't know but your block holder turned out really nicely - a great use of the fabric - fun dresden :-)
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