Wednesday 12 February 2014

Gypsy Wife underway!

I had already been planning to make Jen Kingwell's Gypsy Wife my personal BOM project this year when I discovered that someone else had cleverly read my mind, sorted out a schedule to follow, set up a Flickr group, and printed t-shirts... (that last part might have been stretching the truth, but I'd wear one if such a thing were to happen!!)

So I looked at the schedule for February and the lovely pile of fabric that I bought from Amitie. They are fabulous at sending 'scrap' packs to a dollar amount that you specify. This works for me - my stash is a curious assortment of fabric that I think will be useful for binding (stripes and the like), some blenders, some small collections of fabric that I have been obsessed with at some point or another, and now a largish collection of low volume fabric which has been my latest obsession. None of that really works for a quilt like Gypsy Wife so I was very happy when this turned up in the mail:


First up on the list was a block called Colour Wheel. Oh the agony choosing what fabric to cut into first. According to Jen "the greater the number of fabrics you use, the more fun your quilt will become". Righto.

This was an easy enough block to piece, I just forgot to pay attention to the instructions and only managed 50% accuracy with this little group (all the pale triangles need to be on the same side of the larger piece).


And then it was puzzle time. Again, much quicker if you actually look the helpful diagrams.


And finally success.


One down. Eleventy million to go.
Linking up today over at Freshly Pieced :-)

12 comments:

  1. I am loving the colours in your block - very fresh looking. Those $$$ value scrap packs sound fun, will have to investigate further:)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Congrats on the first major block….I still need to start.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Looking good!! and just love the scrap pack. Linda

    ReplyDelete
  4. I love your fabrics. I am getting project envy - is that a real thing?

    ReplyDelete
  5. Love love love :-). I think should plan where it is going to hang in my lounge now.

    ReplyDelete
  6. That ´s a great pattern - it´s going to be so nice

    ReplyDelete
  7. Great scrap bundle and block

    ReplyDelete
  8. can't wait to follow your progress on this one. It is such an awesome pattern and how exciting to get fabrics from Amitie - their selections are fantastic :-)

    ReplyDelete
  9. beautiful! sounds like it will be quite the adventure.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Love the fabrics you are using - hoping to join in with this QAL too!

    ReplyDelete
  11. argh! I did the same thing with the little triangles on the wrong side. every single one of them. I knew I should stop to figure out which way to sew, but was too tired to think it through. i'll always get it wrong anyway until I actually sew and press it. then I know what to do. congratulations on being off and running!

    ReplyDelete