Blocks of the Month and Creative Limitations

I love the variety of Blocks of the Month (BOM) available over the internet. They are great for learning techniques in manageable portions, with results that are beautiful and useful – something to show off, not test pieces to keep in a drawer… My approach to BOM’s is essentially the same – with a slight difference: I want to encourage you to create your own designs. Therefore I will center my posts around questions of design and techniques – from idea to final product:

• how you can translate your inspiration into fabric
• design techniques
• workability and technical challenges
• improvisation (or: what can you do when it goes wrong?)

On this page: ♣ Creative Limitations … why? ♣ Creative Limitations and step-by-step decisions ♣ What to do with all those blocks?? ♣ Theme and Block for December ♣ Grab a button for the Block of the Month

The Gift of Your Time

Photo: Ben Earwicker

This year I don’t want Christmas to “sneak up on me”, so I thought I’d make a Christmas Gift Calender – and share it with you 🙂

Where I live in Greece, the weather is still very mild for this time of year, more like a first spring after the summer drought – hard to believe that Christmas is only a few weeks away. And Aï Basilis, the Greek version of Father Christmas, comes on New Year…

In order to jump-start myself – and perhaps you, too 🙂 – I’ve decided on the following Theme of the Month for December: “The Gift of Your Time”.

On this page:
♣ The idea
♣ “Making time” vs. “Finding time”
♣ The 30 Day Christmas Gift Calender
♣ Today = Putting on the Sorting Hat

The idea

… is to spend a little time each day reserved exclusively for making a gift for someone.

I love making gifts for others because while doing that I can relax and