Yet another little thing

Another decoration for DD2.  A bit early for Christmas, but the colours mean that it can hang up all year long, if wanted!

This is the finished article.

It takes eight diamonds for each side of the star.

I glue basted them for speed, and left the papers in for rigidity. 

Sewn together into stars they looked like this.  The middle wasn't super neat (I'm a bit rusty with my EPP!) so when I put them together I added a button on each side.

A fun little make!
 

Using the scraps I

That fabric pull I showed you last week?  There are scraps as a result of the cutting out for the different blocks.

I don't like to leave a scrap behind (ahem, apart from the ones in my scrap drawers, which seem to renew all by themselves!)

So, using as many of them as possible, I've made these fabric buckets to go with the quilt.  You can see the two different sides of them, just cobbled together from the scraps that could be 5" square (on the left) or random strips put together according to their size.

Always useful things to have!
 

How I Fabric 'Pull'

I thought it would be interesting to watch my fabric pull happen for my next quilt.  The couple that I am making the quilt for wanted mainly greens with a few rich colours, and generally small patterns.

I actually started with the five fabrics on the left.  One of them is a golden colour, the rest greens.

I looked through my stash (the first five were purchased for the quilt) and found these 'bluer' greens, and a fun geometic print that picked up the gold colour of one of the base fabrics.

More variety (and yardage!) required.  Two more geometric prints added.  One a very pale green, the other, the one on top with the grey, picks up on the gold again.

But I was worried that it didn't have quite enough pizzazz!   Back to the fabric shelves again!

This red with flashes of gold is perfect, and brings in the richness that I wanted from what I'd been told by the couple.

Finally, I wanted to add just a couple of larger prints.  They tie in with the red / gold reasonably well, but will also give that 'punch' that the quilt will need if it isn't to become too sludgy.  Shame that I only have a couple of fat quarters of these, but that should be enough to tickle the quilt into being a little more interesting!

Now it's time to get cutting and choosing the combinations for the blocks that I am going to make.  I love my hobby!

 

Another little thing!

 Another little trinket for DD2 - this time an acorn mug rug.  Nicely seasonal, whilst still using 'her' fabrics.

Something else to clutter up her uni room!

The pattern / template is free from Fig Tree and Co.   I used smaller squares in the acorn, as I already had these 1.5" squares in my scrap drawers.