A Messy House is a Sign of a Happy Quilter: Welcome to October

Saturday 3 October 2020

Welcome to October

Fussy cutting epp for September had the theme 'Up Above'. Week 37 was motif. I used signal flags. Starting with the top left flag (which is P), can you work out what word I have created? When I posted on Insta, I included a hint in a poem:

I miss the flags that fly up high,

But all the cruise ships are high and dry.

Can you work out what I love?

And what I wrote up above?

Here is a website to help you International Marine Flags

Week 38 was sections and I used dragonfly fabric to make this cross pattern. I used the same fabric in Week 40.

Week 39 was freestyle, so I chose motif as I had this fabric on hand from another project (houses blocks).

Week 40 was my least favourite style of epp - pattern matching. I just think it wastes too much fabric.

This week I also played a little catch up with By the Sea QAL. I didn't realise I was two blocks behind when block 8 came out - making me three weeks behind. I had avoided block 6 as 'too many points on the stars - but once I sat down with the fabric it was fairly easy. I only had to unpick one section of one star. I didn't use the paper piecing, I did my own thing as wonky stars look good. Block 6 was called Stars at Sea designed by Snowy Days Quilting.

Block 7, titled Waves was designed by Laura Piland of Slice of Pi Quilts. Laura's pattern included a template for the waves, but I had this cutting ruler, so I used that. I ironed strips of heat and bond to stips of fabric and traced the waves using the ruler.

I cut two waves from each fabric. Then I decided for the background I would sew together two different fabrics. I had a small amount of surfer fabric, so I added that to one of the waves.

Block 8 was a Mariners Star by Kathleen McMusing. A fairly east paper piecing pattern. I couldn't decide on a light or dark background, I'm glad Peter suggested dark.