UFO 1 & 2

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!