Things have been pretty quiet around here this weekend. We don't normally have busy weekends, but this weekend was supposed to be one of the busier ones due to soccer games and the kids' school fall festival. By late Friday night Lily started feeling bad and by Saturday morning has a 103 fever, so off to the Dr. we went. She was just getting over a sinus infection and we've been keeping a close eye on her asthma due to recent flare ups, so we wanted to make sure that things were okay. Poor girl has the flu, most probably h1n1 since that's the only strain they've been seeing in these parts.
We sent the younger two to their grandparent's house just to be on the safe side, so it was very quiet around here. I used this down time to cast on a new knitting project, clean up my sewing room, do LOTS of laundry, finish up the craft hope quilt (still working on the binding) and catch up on my 12 square blocks.
Sarah allowed us to make whatever type of block we wanted. Her only request was that if we add any fabrics to please use a white or yellow toned fabric to lighten it up. Okay, that's exactly what I did. I love a pop of white in a quilt so I added 2 white frames. I started out making a log cabin-ish block, but then it evolved into this. I have problems doing proper log cabins, as you'll see in the next block.
Katie did ask for a log cabin block, a scrappy one. If you've ever visited her blog, you'd know that this block is so totally her. That girl loves white and linen! Her only request was that if we added any fabrics that it be white or linen :-) I had a few in my stash that worked. I'm not usually a monochromatic person, but I love this. This will be such a pretty quilt when assembled. So feminine.
And last but certainly not least, Chris sent us a bunch of vintage sheet pieces and asked for rows. That seemed like a simple enough request. If we were to add any fabrics, they were to be more vintage sheets or white. Well friends, I have oodles of vintage sheet scraps. By the way, searching for these scraps was how the sewing room, clean up happened.
I had so much fun and had so much material for this one, that I made another. I easily could have made 5 more. In fact, I'm thinking about making more blocks to do one of my own (just call me copy cat). I hope you can use the extra block, Chris. If you need some more to even it out, just let me know.
Well friends, a quilt is calling. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great week!
