Jul 24 2009
Inklingo Sampler
A few posts back, after I listed all my projects and promptly fainted, I had a heart-t0-heart with myself about my long list. I decided I needed to whittle it down. [Ha! Yeah, so you could add more projects to it without feeling so guilty. Oh hush, Guilty Conscience. No one asked you!] One of the things I did was to stop kidding myself that I was going to get all those cute, free BOMs done. I think there were about 5 or 6 of them previously listed on my sidebar. I’d been saving the patterns but never actually making the blocks. So I put a stop to that madness and even cleared some space on my hard drive by deleting all the PDFs.
I half-heartedly decided I was only going to do Guute’s Antique Quilt. But then reality set in. I really couldn’t justify spending money for background and reproduction fabrics when I really needed to use the money for the quilts on my “to do” list that are much more important. [So now my Guilty Conscience was feeling all smug, but my Muse was not amused.] About that time, Tilde announced she was starting up an Inklingo Sampler quilt–a new block listed on her blog each week and made with Inklingo. That sounded intriguing. A sampler quilt that I could make with scraps. Batik scraps. The leftovers from my Top Secret–Area 51–Nevada quilt. [The Guilty Conscience tried to raise his ugly head, but my Muse subdued him. She's strong like that.] [Sorry, I don't know where some of these side comments are coming from, but I'm cracking myself up at least.]
Block One: LeMoyne Star
A new block will be posted every Friday on the Inklingo Sampler blog. Instructions for Block One are here and pictures of other completed blocks are here. I used the Inklingo 6″ LeMoyne Star collection for this block instead of the Inklingo Free 4.5″ LeMoyne Star collection. We are only on the fourth block so there’s plenty of time to catch up if you’d like to join us.
