I have been working on designs for the next mailorder. It's going to be mini block foundation patterns-with the directions on how to make these little guys. (I swear this is not hard-and I was calling this "paper piecing" before, which I know some people do, but I think foundation block piecing is the more accurate term.) I am really happy with how these have turned out. I love the fussy cut on the middle one there. I also love the term, fussy cut.There will be a few sizes, but they all will be no larger than about 5" x 5"- most will be more like 4" x 4" or smaller. The fun of the foundation block technique is that you can work really small, and it still turns out really tidy and dang near perfect every time. You can see a larger image of these blocks here. I am hoping to get the last issue of mailorder out by the beginning of June. (She said hopefully.) Then I will start Mailorder again in early 2008. Gotta have that baby #3 and feed it, you know.
This last block design I multiplied in photoshop (I heart computers) so you can see what 12 blocks would look like as a mini-quilt. I'm not sure why I haven't tried this before. Probably because I don't usually work with this kind of block repetition, but now I am all excited to do a new quilt (for baby) in orange and white and it would be so fun to see it like this first. It kind of feels like cheating.
Okay, today is our Monday. We had an amazing long weekend at the coast where I decided to change my crochet goals. The baby blanket will now be a Christmas gift for baby. That means I now get to start (and finish) that orange and white quilt I am going to try and cut out today. (what?) Not like we have a shortage of blankets/quilts around here. In any given room the girls can play Princess and the Pea with about 12 quilts. You'd think we live in Antarctica.
