Sun Flowers

Last week was remarkable for the amount of time I didn’t spend in my sewing room. The week was completely taken up with appointments, errands, holiday shopping and decorating, a couple of parties, and — it must be admitted — way too many Scrabble games.

At least I got the blocks put together for my Season to Taste table runner:

2014-12, Sun Flowers
Sun Flowers, 18″ x 56″

I’m making a version of Season to Taste for each of the four seasons. This one is the summer version, and I’m going to call it Sun Flowers. The pale gray background fabric (from the Painter’s Canvas line by Laura Gunn for Michael Miller) reminds me of a summer sky at first light.

The kaleidoscope blocks went together very easily but I am unhappy that the centers of the middle and bottom blocks don’t match exactly. It appears a couple of the repeats were just a smidge off when I cut through the eight layers of my focus fabric. With a kaleido block, being off even a sixteenth of an inch can make a difference.

Since Sun Flowers is destined to be a wall hanging, I’m going to place a vintage yellow button in the center of each kaleidoscope block. I auditioned a few buttons in my collection:

kaleido block with buttons
Middle block
kaleido with buttons 2
Bottom Block

I’m going to pretend that adding the buttons was a design choice rather than a ploy to cover my cutting error. You won’t tell anyone, will you?

 

 

 

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7 Responses to Sun Flowers

  1. Linda Paladino says:

    I love your table runner. It’s a great ideal to use up the left over blocks from the one block wonder quilts I make! The table runners will make great gifts for friends and family.
    Thank you so much for sharing this table runner with us.
    Happy Holidays!

  2. Rosalee says:

    I love it — great color combo! And nice “designer choice” button in the middle!

  3. Virginia Hammon says:

    Oh my! I had to look VERY hard after your comment to see the ‘error.’ It’s a lovely summery piece!

  4. Fawn says:

    Good Morning! I just LOVE those sunflowers! They are amazing- is it cut like the stack and whack? I have done those and they are so easy!

  5. Karen says:

    I really love the yellow & gray together. I like your button idea, although the centers looked pretty good without the button. Love reading your blog.

  6. Linda dyer says:

    I love the button centers! They look great!!

  7. Good idea to make the bright summer ones now during gray days. I did one stack n whack and found aligning the fabrics very tedious. The button is a good design idea. My lips are sealed.

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