WOMENS MARCH 2019

Some of the things we saw along the way... 

[most of these photos were taken by Darrell]

Afterward, we had a nice lunch in the Center House Armory at the Skillet Counter. 

BEGONIA BLOCK OF THE MONTH

Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's block of the month for 2019 is called the Begonia quilt.  It's going to be mostly half-square-triangle squares.

First month's assignment is to pick fabrics and make the center.

I'm using the fabric I got at the recent Love of Stitching meeting the CQA guild arranged that got the CQA the SeaMQG and the Seattle SAQA together for an afternoon.  It was fun.  We traded fabrics at the end.

This yard of fabric is definitely not something I would have bought on my own.  But it's going to be a great jumping off point for this project.

Wow, right?

Here's my ten fabrics and my Swatch Panel to keep them straight.

And then here's the first month's assignment, the center square and a few small square-in-a-square blocks to be saved for later.  

The fabric used for that bigger center square was directional, so I cut it into four triangles and sewed them together in such a way as to make them more uni-directional (is that a word?), more bud-like (as in, the center of the flower).

The main fabric for this project, the dark purple, is a Kona called Regal.  I love it.

STAR WARS INTERLUDE

We were quietly have our usual lunch at Coastline Burgers in the West Seattle Junction, when in rolled R2D2.  He was beeping and squeaking, as he's known to do, apparently ordering burgers.  The staff seemed to give him deferential treatment until he got his bag of cheeseburgers and left.