Designing or Cheating?

Designing or Cheating?
I’m seriously considering changing my blog name to ” Sew Joy with ORANGE!”
You’ll see why below. . .
I have a full design wall this week. Mostly to meet all of my Spring to Finish goals.

Top Left: String Block. This will be this week’s block. I usually put my foundation up and then add strings from projects I’m working on for the week on top. The purple is my foundation so I only need one more strip this week.

Bottom Left: Carrots and Tops. These are for my Bunny Lady quilt. I have one border almost stitched on. This is enough carrots for one more border. 2 to go.


Top Right: Wonky Shoofly. I joined the Block Lotto! I could no longer resist this block. Shoofly was one of the first blocks I made as a quilter. It holds a sentimental place in my heart. Add orange and I’m really smiling!


Bottom Right: Mystery Basket. This is where I feel like I’m cheating! The background for this block is supposed to be all yellow. But – I ran out. Who knew there would be 18 1/2 inch unfinished blocks in the sampler?! {It’s a mystery, right}


I started to worry last month that my background fabric was dwindling. I had a yard and a half, but, well, obviously that wasn’t enough. I did start to add in some orange blocks just in case I needed to do some creative blending. Now we’ll just have to wait and see.

Check out some other design walls through Judy’s link.

With Joy,
Sarah Vee

ps. did you see all the orange? In every. single. project! Perhaps it’s time to spin the colour wheel – or to really focus on orange. Do you have a favourite go-to colour?


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