I think this may be the most autumnal of my autumn quilt blocks! Don’t know where this long Bank Holiday weekend has gone, though, I’d been working on this through the week and actually thought I’d finish this one and have another one done by the end of the weekend… always over-optimistic about what I can achieve.
Flying to America tomorrow for a few days (work, but with two days holiday added in to take advantage of someone else paying for my flight) and am only taking hand luggage, so no needles and pins on board and hence no patchwork for a week at least. But BA does let you take crochet hooks on board these days, so I’ve got a book of ‘100 snowflakes to crochet’, and hope that despite having done barely any crochet to date, just one edging on a bolero last year, I’ll have made one or two Christmas tree decorations by the time I get back to Heathrow. Fingers crossed!
This is my new favourite block (after the first one I did for this quilt), I’m pleased with the colours and having the bird, pine cones, berries and acorns, so feel it fits in well with my autumn theme (it took me ages to come up with putting in the red patches, but I think they really make it). I don’t think it fits well with the other blocks I’ve done, and only one of the colours I’ve used here has been used on any of the previous blocks, but I’ll make more and hope they somehow fit together in the end. I think now I could have made the whole quilt in these colours, but too late now! And the key elements weren’t for sale when I first started looking for fabrics. I’m struggling to put together colours for the other blocks now, maybe I’ve given myself too many to choose from!
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