fabric everywhere

 

 *backyard bouquet inspo

Hello, hello. As I was cutting all those strips for my courthouse steps blocks (see my last post), I was going to tidy-as-I-go. But then it struck me that these fabrics were way too pretty to tuck away again quite so quickly. So, I also started cutting out 10" squares if the piece was big enough. 

I decided I'd make traditional broken dishes blocks in a bunch of fun bright fabrics in an effort to use up more of my stash. Inspiration for the quilt and *colour palette from Amanda at prairie quilt co.

I have heaps of cut out squares but only one block finished! 

Because sadly, everything came to a screaming halt. I had to take my sewing machine into the repair shop to be serviced and hopefully get the clunky sound in the bobbin repaired.  

Without my sewing machine here, it's time I did a bit of a tidy up, no excuses left now!
There's fabric everywhere at present - overflowing baskets, random fabric stacks, messy mounds of leftover strips ...

... patchwork is an explosive art!