I’m speeding through the blocks – well, as much as I can speed with various interruptions from my gorgeous little girls.  Stella has started saying “my turn” whenever I am at the sewing machine or overlocker.  Somehow, I think it’s still a little early for a barely 2 year old!

First up, four blocks for Becky:

At first I thought that this fabric might be hard to match, but it honestly only took about ten minutes of staring at the stash and pulling out fabrics before I had what I consider to be four good combinations.  I think that the intensity of colour is more important than whether the colours “match”.  I love these blocks.

The next ones are for the block swap’s intrepid leader, Sheridan.

More beautiful pindots, this time in scrummy banana yellow in a  lovely random pattern.  What a great choice of feature fabric!  And it works so nicely with all these Kaffe Fassett contrasts.  I particularly like the full-blown roses:

I feel the need to reiterate that I am learning SO MUCH from this block swap!  It’s such a practical and fun way to get experience in combining different fabrics, colours, shades, values and hues.