Wednesday, 7 December 2016

Blind Man's Fancy



The fabric in today’s block came from a little bundle of scraps I won in a drawing. There were four pieces in the bundle: a cheerful green print, red tone-on-tone swirls, an nearly white solid and a royal blue with flecks of white, red and green. I used every crumb of the white and blue on this block, and about half the red. I meant to use a square of the green in the center of the block, but somehow between the ironing board and the cutting table it simply disappeared. There’s a black hole somewhere in my sewing room, and from time to time it swallows the most random things. Occasionally they show up again, days later, in places I'm CERTAIN I searched before. But some things just vanish and are never seen again. This was a fussy, unrewarding block, but I know what my grandma would say: a blind man would be happy to see it.

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