A Fox

I saw this great quilt a little while ago and thought I would give it a go. Helpfully Samantha linked her Mr Fox to an x-block tutorial at Pile o Fabric.

Here is where I am at so far -

I don't like his nose in the chevron - it's too harsh. I will re-do that one. This is my first time using Essex Linen. It's certainly not as loose a weave as 100% linen which is a good think when sewing on the bias.

I did think nephew Lucas might like this on. He demonstrates how to sniff the air like a fox and occasionally refers to Swiper the fox. I say, "I don't know who Swiper is." "He's on tv," I get told. And there is a fox in The Little Gingerbread Man record/book we listen to.

I think the fox will measure about 34" square before I add a natural 4" border.

Orange

I have been machine sewing this weekend. Firstly, I have started making orange x blocks. At the moment they measure, randomly, 3 6/8". I might trim them back further so there is less natural showing and they look more orange.

I have a lot more orange ones to make, and a few black and beige ones. You can see what happens when you cut the orange strips too short in the centre block. Ooops.

Our Monday Modern Block Lotto this month is simply a colour slab with a white square near the centre. Since I had the oranges off the shelf and unfolded, I went with orange. You can see the yellow, blue, teal and purple slabs in our flickr pool.

Now it's back to the hand sewing and blocks 7 and 8 [April] of The Circle Game.