Long weekend bliss

Just spent the best part of the Queens Birthday weekend with my bff, who has happily come on board for the Farmers Wife Quilt Along - so we cut and sewed and caught up with week 2 and we each now have 4 blocks completed.  Luckily I have EQ (version 6) so I've been drafting the blocks and creating rotary cut instructions for each one (so far I've drafted the first 24 blocks).  Here's my bff's blocks:



Fabulous collection of black, yellow, white and grey prints - and I'll dye some grey fabrics for her to use too.  This is going to look fabulous.

Here's mine:

I must have done the handle on the Basket block 3 times - in the end I used the iron-on bias binding and stitched down the edges with ladder stitch.  I also had to repeat the Basket weave block - I usually cut all my patches a smidge bigger so I can trim the block back once it's all joined together - but this block doesn't lend itself to doing that - I trimmed back a good 1/4" on the first one I made which made the long white patches too narrow, so back to the cutting mat......

In my last update, I mentioned we have 4 new additions to the family......

Meet our new chooks - we've been assured they're all hens and it'll take a little while before we can verify that - but they're very cute, very noisy and very messy.  They're enjoying the sunny days we're having but have to come inside the house at night with a warm lamp.  This brings our little flock up to 10 chooks and 1 rooster - but 3 of the chooks are pretty old and we're only getting the occasional, gigantor, misshaped egg from them - I think they're nearly ready to go off to that big chook shed in the sky........

I also joined Elizabeth Eastman's Red and White Challenge at Occasional Piece - so looking forward to receiving the fabrics to make her blocks.

I'm loving this whole community of creative folks.................