January BOM's
Doing two Block-of-the-Month quilts this year
(actually three, but I'll get to that in a min) because I signed up to do them
before my life went wonky.The two
current quilts are a warm-toned sampler from Quilt Junction and an
all-the-same-block batik from Creekside Quilting. There's a batik sampler coming
up from Quilter's Cupboard, but not till March. Hopefully I'll have real sewing
space by then.Anyway, the warm sampler
has 24 regular blocks, 2 matching blocks in different colors each month, and 24
setting squares. The quilt shop provides the fabric for the colored portion of
the regular blocks, but we have to provide the background fabric for the entire
quilt plus the colored fabric for the setting squares. I used the Nancy Crow
fabric provided for last year's Making Tracks quilt (which I substituted with an
off-white batik) as the brown, and bought a Moda red and a Moda marble for the
whole background.Here's what the
setting squares look
like: 
And
January's 2
blocks: 
February's
blocks are bear's claw blocks. I'll try to show them as soon as I sew
them. 
For
the batik quilt at Creekside, they're supplying 2 batiks each month and a pice
of non-batik dark-green fabric for the backgrounds. I've substituted the green
with a black-with-blue-undertones batik (I think it's Hoffman 1896 but I'm not
sure, I just know I have pretty big piece of it here at home). They've also set
the pattern up to be one 12-inch block, sort of like a spiky pinwheel, but I'm
going to keep them as single 6-inch blocks and will set them randomly on point,
I think, since each block will be the same except for
color.Anyway, here's the batik block
for
January: 
February's
block will be with purple and a hot magenta-red. Should be pretty on the
black! 
Posted: Friday - February 09, 2007 at 08:14 AM
