Saturday, July 9, 2011

takin' care of bizness

July blocks

My July to-do list is insane. Stupidly insane. And given that all of next week will be taken up with me playing cafeteria lady for our church's VBS, I've got a lot to get done this coming week. I decided to get a "head start" by whipping up my blocks for this month's do.Good Stitches quilt. Our quilter for the month asked for red, pink, and aqua spiderweb blocks.

I have to say that I'm not a big fan of the way spiderweb quilts look. I know lots of people are into them but, as with dresdens, I'm gonna have to count myself out of that fan club. Sewing these blocks made me realize that I don't like MAKING spiderweb quilts either. (editor's note: I never blame my quilters for picking blocks I don't like. Other people in our circle were ecstatic about these! I'm just saying.) These two blocks took me FOUR HOURS. I'm a fast sewer usually, so for me this was the equivalent of fabric torture. 

I really did like the colors together, though--gave me lots of ideas for future projects. 

Anyway, one thing of a hundred checked off my list. YES!! Ha.

4 comments:

Melanie said...

Sorry to hear these were such a chore to make, but they are beautiful!

marycatharine said...

Four hours is a long time! They are pretty but I get what you're saying about spiderweb quilts. The colour combo is great, too bad they take forever.

Rachel at Stitched in Color said...

ha, well at least you learned your lesson on 2 blocks! I made that Christmas tree skirt this time last year. Wowzers!

And this would be . . . . said...

I have never tried a spiderweb block as I am not a fan of them either. I think I might have seen one or two I like. My July list is insane as well....who said summer was for relaxing???