Becca's Quilting Fun

So this was a tough week. I knew it would be difficult because of my other volunteer passion: theatre. Its tech week which is the week of rehearsals every night when all the lighting and sound mix with the actors to create the show.  Working a full time job plus rehearsals every night leaves little time for quilting.  I thought id have a reprieve on sunday night and monday day due to a fed holiday. Unfortunately due to a medical issue, i was unable to quilt sunday or monday. That left me Saturday to create the pixel play magic. After encouragement from the facebook group, i knew i could do something. I looked on pinterest and google images all week for inspiration.  Friday i decided to do an infinity symbol. I tried first to do something with nature type patterns on the fabric. But i didnt put it together correctly. Next i looked around and saw a baggie with long strips of a blue fabric that was meant for some other forgotten project.  I cut it into smaller strips and p

The theme this week is "bigger than a breadbox".   When my family played 20 questions we often asked this question.  I thought about doing a play on the words or something with 20 questions.  But then I remembered I'm getting into my series of busy weeks.  I really only had a few days to complete this project.  I decided to do a quilt based on a single block that i had never done before, but wanted to try.  I narrowed it down and decided on the card trick block.  From pinterest The construction was pretty easy. But i made a mistake when attaching the background. Traditionally the card trick is set on an angle. But the way i did my background was vertical. So ill either have to hang it on an angle, or be ok with it bekng askew. I had fun with the backing.  I reused a halloween top that never got finished. I did a very basic diagonal line quilting since i was pressed for time. Im pleased with the binding this time. I