This year I’ve been making blocks for F2F, a quilting swop organised by Kate from Tall Tales from Chiconia. Each month we make three twelve inch blocks for someone in the group, everyone has been allocated a month and also chooses their colour scheme. This month it’s my turn, I’ve chosen a soft blue and taupe colour scheme, inspired by this colour board on pinterest…

Of course having chosen my colours, when it came to making the blocks I realised I had very few fabrics myself in these colours! I had a look on the Wool Warehouse website and found a selection I liked. They have a useful feature on their site where you can pull all the fabrics you fancy onto one project page to see how the work together, I had a good play with various fabrics and I was very happy when the bundle arrived…

I made a flower block first, I made this one earlier in the year for someone else’s colours, this one was like a big sunflower…

In soft blues however, it could be a meconopsis or blue poppy. I’ve always fancied growing meconopsis, they’re beautiful flowers but very fussy! As a quilt block though, it’s not so fussy, it’s actually quite an easy block to make as it’s base is four simple house blocks.

The next block I made was a basket of flowers, again it’s one I made earlier in the year in what is actually a very similar colour scheme…

The instructions in my book used a large triangle for the top half of the basket, I find it much easier to just use half square triangles and a square. This time my blocks were just a shade lighter…

My final block is pairs of flying geese blocks. I tried to make one earler in the year but the size didn’t come out right, I think I had only just got my new sewing machine and hadn’t yet sussed out the settings for a scant quarter inch seam. This time the size was spot on…

So that’s my three blocks made, I’m restraining myself and waiting til the end of the month to have a look on the F2F website and see the wonderful blocks everyone has made for me. Hopefully soon we can post them all to each other and make some quilts.