Cspoonquilt

This month's BOM is a "Catch-up" block.  At PVQA we have a credit system for our BOM.  Basically,  if you want to put in for the drawing you have to make the block and for every block you make you get a credit.  People accumulate credits and when they win a BOM there block credits are debited the number of blocks that they won.  It may sound kind of strict but through trial and error we've found this system encourages people to participate.  This month is a scrappy use-all-your-own-fabric block.   You can make up to 6 blocks and earn up tp 6 credits if you need to catch- up on your credits or bank some credits for when you win! I'm linking up with Scraptastic Tuesday, the linky buttonis just to the right!  cheers! Since we'll only be making one to a handful of blocks I would start by cutting and laying out  the blocks individually as shown in the above pic. Choosing Fabrics:   The real trick to picking fabrics for a design l...

I've been playing with Modern designs for a while now (see  here  and  here  and  here  ).  I really like abstract designs and I like figuring out ways to construct such designs.  So I decided to design some samples for a class based around these design ideas and techniques. I think of these kind of designs like a cloth Ikebana arrangement.  Just seven or so elements arranged in an interesting geometry makes a great minimalist design! I played around with placement ( the fun part!)... And eventually settled on this placement.  All the pieces were sewn by machine even the in-set squares. I will post about how I did that another time.   I think of designs like this kind of like a visual Haiku.  A few short phrases or elements that when juxtaposed create and interesting  composition?! The're fun to compose and fairly easy to construct! cheers, CW