She Did It AGAIN ...

Cathy has done it again . . . 

Before you read further, go read her last post.

Carpenter's Star is one of the blocks she's considering 

for her ongoing scrap-stash-assault.

As I read her post, my brain leaped to 

a pending future project of my own.

I posted about the original plan for  HERE.

Since then I've gone back and forth and actually 

decided I did not want to make the 

original Chips design in any fabric combination.

(more on that project later in the post)

The name SHIVOO moved to this waiting group of

200 KF 3" (fin) HST halves and some Tula Pink Fairy Dust.

I had been thinking in terms of Depression blocks

ala Gerful, but that plan really didn't excite me - 

and so SHIVOO sat on the shelf waiting . . . until now.

I will make six of the 20" blocks (2 wide x 3 long)

and then add some sort of border.

I also plan to change the four corner squares

from the background (see first photo) to a Kaffe print.

That way the blocks will connect and form 

some sort of secondary pattern.

These stars won't begin until after the first of the year,

but I'm certainly more excited about this approach

than I was over any of the earlier plans.

Edited March 2022

Shivoo did quite a bit of changing direction

and ultimately the fabrics became part of

a series of polka dot quilts.

(look for the 'polka dots' label in the side bar

to see what became of the fabrics)

And then Cathy shared this inspiration photo.

Clearly we all know I adore HSTs and often

use vintage quilts for inspiration.

My polka dot fabric pull for the project named

 JOLLIFICATION (formerly named Shivoo)

will work perfectly for this idea.

(and please don't worry - the switching of 

project names mid-stream confuses me, too)

Edited March 2022

Jollification did quite a bit of changing direction

and ultimately the fabrics became part of

a series of polka dot quilts.

(look for the 'polka dots' label in the side bar

to see what became of the fabrics)

I figured out that I have enough different dots

to use a different one for each set of five HSTs

and even have a few dot options leftover.

I am sure I have enough different black-on-whites

to use a different one for each set of five.

Again, this won't happen until 2022

but I'm happy to be excited by the plan.

Thanks for the inspiration, Cathy!

Quiltdivajulie

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Gail Boyle