This was the perfect weekend to sew. I had four straight days of gloomy weather, which made for the perfect opportunity to squirrel myself away in my sewing room and work on projects. And what did I do? I got sick. It was just a bad cold, but it made me want to do nothing but watch YouTube videos and read. In fact, on Saturday, I just stayed in bed all day. To make matters worse, it was Valentine’s Day and my husband had made reservations to have dinner out at a nice restaurant. I couldn’t taste anything, and if I talked, it triggered a coughing fit, so I was terrible company.
I did manage to make another block in the Riley Blake Challenge for 2026, so now I am all caught up. I love this block with the script prints. How fun they are to work with. A new block comes out today I think, so I will have to plan on making that this week.
The fabric I am using is an older collection called Farmer’s Daughter by Lella Boutique. I had bought a Moda kit and never used it, so I pulled the fabric and decided to use it for this project instead. The yardage is pretty skimpy for the 16 blocks in the project, and I am pretty sure I won’t have enough. I know Lella Boutique has some other more recent collections that have similar colors, so perhaps I can supplement with some pieces from those groups. If anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear from you!
I hope your weekend was better than mine and that you had a happy Valentine’s day!
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I missed you yesterday! Glad you are feeling better. I love that churndash block. That challenge has some beautiful blocks.
Thanks Carole, I am feeling pretty good now, except for the annoying cough.
I love the churn dash with all the word fabrics for the pieces. Some day I will do the Riley Blake challenge. The blocks are so different from the usual QALs!
The blocks are more challenging than most sew alongs and I think more interesting as well. Another benefit is that they have done this program since 2021 I believe, and all those patterns are still available on their website and could be interchanged with the current sew along. All the block sizes are 10″ finished.
I follow the RBDblockchallenge on Facebook, so I see all the posted finished blocks. Really enjoy it. However, I see a lot of very muddy blocks – poor placement of color values. Not all, but many (maybe even most).
You get the prize for best placement of color values. Your blocks are excellent. Looks really great.
You had me at Churn Dash! I love your block & it really shows off those script prints. Feeling sick probably didn’t add to the Valentine’s Day dinner vibe at all. Give Dennis credit for a thoughtful plan though!
What a bother to be laid low – especially when dinner out is in the plans. Hope your sweetie doesn’t catch it.
Love the blocks you’ve finished so far, and the script fabric in the Churn Dash block is perfect!
Wishing you WELL!
Hugs!
Glad you are on the mend. Sleep is the best thing and it is hard to listen to the body when the brain feels like we must do something instead of resting. Made 3 plaid tester pinwheel blocks, one 5″ finish, one 6″ finish and the final one is 12″ finish, pinwheel is centre and there are star points around it. Since then we bought our kit for our archery – I seem to have a thing about things with sharp pointy bits on the end! LOL!