The Mother ship has captured 2 mini UFO's!
I was cruising the internet recently and
I was looking at Italian cement tiles for
inspiration.
I stuck
GOLD...
or
either found the end of the rainbow.
The tiles had endless possibilities for quilt inspiration.
I opened up one of the tiles in Illustrator
and traced the image and ended up with the quilt block below.
I spent waaaaaay too much time tessellating the tiles.
Here are 2 samples.
After I spent a crazy amount of time cutting & sewing
hordes of 1" strips of fabric I assembled them into 4 blocks below.
This finished block is only 8" square.
Oh...so tiny for so much work!!!!
Common sense says
STOP
what you are doing,
and don't make a King size quilt like this!!!
So, now I bring you the fabulous
Italian cement tile inspired
HOT PAD.
(It's the latest craze.)
UFO #2
This foundation paper pieced
New York Beauty is from the Gridster Bee.
Susan Snooks of Australia chose this wonderful block.
You can view her blog here.
I was so excited to make my very first
foundation pieced block I forgot to do something incredibly important.
ALWAYS DOUBLE CHECK THAT YOUR PRINTER IS SET TO 100%.
On my printer there are
TWO
places to verify this.
I only checked one place and boo hoo.
I printed at the wrong size, and waaaaalaaaa,
I learned a valuable lesson!
I made a second New York Beauty for Susan
and turned this block into...
you guessed it...
another
HOT PAD.
On the up side my daughter Claire is a fabulous baker
of all things made with flour, sugar and chocolate.
She just started a cake baking business,
and both of these hot pads
are on their way to her test kitchen.
Claire - I can hear the hot pads fighting over whose turn it is
to remove the cakes from your magic oven.
And here's a peek at the second New York Beauty I made.
Off to the stack of never ending UFO's!
