Finish A Long - 2nd Quarter

I enjoyed finishing stuff last quarter thro Rhonda's Finish A Long, so I went to my UFO drawer (yes, labelled and everything!!) to see what I could tackle this quarter.

I have a few small quilt tops and rather a lot of blocks........my problem is samples. In class I will probably have a finished sample but choose to make another along with the classes.Sometimes (quite often) these further samples end up as forlorn, forgotten UFOs.

I reckon if I had possessed good foresight when I started teaching then I might have decided upon a colour palette and stuck with it for all sample blocks, in the hope that one day I might make something useful from them.....

.....anyway, I have dug out all these poor blocks in blues.....

 These awful blocks were samples of different applique methods to 4 different classes.

 A beginners' 9 patch and how to make multiple HSTs.........

 Oh, these pre-date my classes and were a stab at scrappy piecing...

 Foundation piecing demo.............

     Leftovers from the year we did "Log cabin with attitude"....................

 Some plaiting, and a couple of spare hsts.....

The beginnings (and end) of my "Victory Quilt"

So what am I planning?? Well, a couple of weeks ago my friend Janet lent me this book -

Janet has just shown me this cushion that she has been inspired to make after reading the book - isn't it just fab?

The book was so interesting - I was particularly taken with the chapter on breathing new life into old blocks.

So, I am going to take my rotary cutter to the above blocks and inject some of this........

and see what I end up with!! Wish me luck.