The fifth block for The Splendid Sampler Quilt was released on Sunday..and I actually managed to stitch it on Sunday 🙂 It’s called Simple Simon and it was designed by Celine Perkins.
To be fair, it is well named being based on a fairly simple nine-patch block. It was nice to have a pretty straight forward block after the teeny tiny pieces we’ve been sewing with!
I fussy-cut the main squares with flowers on, with hindsight I should have fussy-cut the narrow strips too but at the time they almost seemed to narrow to be noticeable. I even managed to keep the back fairly neat!
Five blocks complete now out of 100, a few ladies on facebook have started sewing the sashings in already, I must admit I’m tempted to join them as the thought of stitching a hundred blocks together at once does not fill me with joy! I’ll see how time goes over the next week.
Simple Simon; Block 5
thecraftycreek 
thank you for joining us!
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Thanks for all your work organizing it, I’m learning so much as I go along 🙂
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I really like this simple pattern and I’m tempted to redo mine otherwise it might just drive me a bit mad! 😳
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Really like the floral fabric you’ve used here… but have a question: What is fussy cutting? [Please pardon my non-quilter query.] Thank you!
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Hi, fussy cutting is when you cut the square to get a certain pattern in it, like the flower, rather than just cutting five squares in a row. If I had fussy cut the narrow stripe I would have had the pattern centralized.
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Ah! Makes sense – thank you!
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