I am part of a block exchange on the HGTV quilting message board this year. We call ourselves 'Mystery Sisters' as the coordinator gave each of us the name/address of a participant to make and send a block a month.
We don't know who our 'mystery sister' is and the reveal isn't until December. To keep ourselves a secret we send our blocks to someone else to mail for us, use someone else's return address, etc.
It's fun!
The only rules were that we should stretch ourselves, and we could only use 5 fabrics to make all the blocks for our sister for the year. At the beginning we got to say what season, colors etc we would like, without choosing fabrics or manufacturer's. I said 'autumn' and I love getting these little surprises in the mail every month!
Here are my blocks so far~
I have one extra because my sister chose to send the 2 leaf blocks since one is the reverse of the other. I am already dreaming about how I will put my quilt together. LOL
doesn't it make you feel cooler to just look at it? :-)
Switching gears, I can now tell you about another little project I did with my Mom
while I was visiting. She has a lot of fun purses, some I've made, one she won, others she has purchased. They don't always have inside pockets~ or at least enough inside pockets. ;-)
And she wanted something she could easily move from one bag to another that would hold most of the necessary purse items.
So I played! :-)
Going by her purse sizes etc, I made a purse insert for her. And then tweaked it a bit.
These are two we made~
I also made a smaller version, but forgot to take a photo.. or Mom dashed it off too fast to her purse! ;-) We had a lot of fun sewing together! :-) Usually I cut and sew (since she has a machine just like mine) and she would do the pressing and occasional ripping. :-o Ok, ok, I ripped sometimes too! LOL
Now I need to decipher my notes and make one for myself since we didn't get that far. ;-)
Hope you are having a happy stitchin' day~
Until next time,
may all your stitches be straight! ;-)
3 comments:
That is fun!! and I like your blocks - you probably already know what you are doing with them don't you!!
I like the inserts. And that is a great memory to have!!
The purse caddy is very clever!
And those fall blocks are very pretty. This sounds like a fun way to do a swap.
Love the blocks you've received. THe pumpkins and turkey are adorable xxx
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