Muddle for the Month
Each month I have a couple of blocks to make for other quilters. For each of the two groups, my turn comes early in the calendar year, so I've already received my bounty for '09.Kathy sent an oyster white batik with a magenta center square and asked for a couple of log cabins. I made these tonight and had a wonderful time doing them. So simple, so precise, so crisp, so much fun!
The second swap group has two blocks to be made this month. One participant wants autumn-colored friendship star blocks and sent a nice creamy background. Easy peasy. Will do those tomorrow afternoon.
The other participant, however, has asked for a very intricate block that involves techniques that are totally unfamiliar to me. I don't feel good about the possibility of ruining her fabric while trying to learn this complicated method. I feel a little uncomfortable that she has asked for such a difficult block. I thought about it and consulted with a friend and decided that the right thing to do would be to send her fabrics and pattern back with a note that her request is far beyond my level of skill. And enclose a couple of really pretty FQs as a consolation.
What would you have done?
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I feel that being up front is the best option. This lady can ask someone else to fill in for you if she likes.
I too like doing blocks for others. Someday I think I'll ask for help from some of my fellow quilt bloggers. It would be nice to have work from the ladies I go to for inspiration.
Please post on how this goes.
Hugs
These blocks are perfect and will play so nicely with the ones I am making. Thanks so much for making two and for posting a photo so I can see them all that much sooner.
Kathy B
I need to tell you little Miss Independence Day in your previous post is adorable...I love that picture, and at one time my daughter as a little girl had the same toppy curl on her head..just makes the picture more perfect for me to see! Have a great day!
If it's not fun or not fun anymore, I don't do it.
I think you did just the right thing. And it was very gracious of you to include some fat quarters as consolation.
I would probably have tried to make the block out of scraps, or maybe a different technique, and then bumbled along with her fabric. If she doesn't like the finished product, she doesn't have to use it.
I must also say that those LC blocks are making me re-think swearing off this block after my one and only LC quilt (that nearly did me in, LOL) - crisp and clean color choices are just stunning.
Liz in CT
I just went and looked at the block choice for linda..aye carumba :) I may have to write to her...
Peggy
I will cut fabric (of the specified colors) roughly the size she needs to make her block (so she will have the variety if that's the goal) and send along a kind of "kit". I'll probably throw in an extra FQ too.
WV: retio What you call out when you play hide and seek "Retio not, here I come!"