Eight quilt blocks and yet more books!

After my recent flurry of Gelli printing I felt the urge to return to patchwork this weekend, and pulled out of my stash various pretty colours. Mainly pink, green and light grey. I'd a piece of plain white cotton and a 9 and a half inch square quilt ruler, so I cut out eight squares from the cotton. Which was as many as I could get out of that remnant.

Deciding on a wonky log cabin pattern I machine sewed my blocks, making sure each block differed.

I really like these colours and the log cabin design.

Am not sure whether to make more blocks of the same fabrics or whether to alternate them with plain blocks or join them together using sashing. Will have to think about that and see what I prefer. Anyway, just a couple of other things to tell you about. I found two more books for my To-Be-Read pile. Couldn't resist these charity shop bargains.

Oh, and I made another quick page for my art journal. I'm trying to be speedy and spontaneous about it, not worrying whether it looks suitably arty or accomplished.

Notice the pink crayoning and tissue paper. I've obviously had that colour in mind this weekend, haven't I?

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