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Vintage Home BOM
Last year Jo Avery of myBearpaw invited me to join in with her Vintage Home BOM Quilt Along. Each month in Today's Quilter a new block is released and features items from around the home, with a bit of a vintage or retro twist. I chose May's block, with the theme of light and decided to make the candlestick block. This one spoke to me as my name, Lucy, comes from Latin origin and means "light" - I even have it tattooed on my wrist!
The blocks are machine sewn, a few have a small amount of foundation paper piecing but this one is made with regular machine piecing and a little bit of hand appliqué. I decided to challenge myself a bit by mixing different weights of fabric in the block. The background is the beautiful woven Illuminated Graph in Rust, Loominous by Anna Maria Horner and the candlestick holder is a Japanese geometric lines linen. This print is one of my favourites, I see it often because I used it for the basket that holds my everyday make up!
I like how these fabrics play together, both have a different vibe and yet the lines create a relationship. The orange toned rust colour of the background gives that warm glow you get from a candle too. For the flame itself I cut into my precious Liberty, the Farhad print is perfect and I thought the black grid on it looked good as a representation of the wick.
The hand appliqué was quick to do, just the flame and the circular candlestick holder. I didn't clip the outer part of the circle, as it's linen I didn't want it to fray too much and it was large enough that I didn't need to. I did clip the inner circle though and it behaved relatively well!
Clearly I love candles! This block was a joy to sew and it was nice to have some hand sewn elements included. Jo's patterns are so easy to follow and the other blocks in the BOM are all so sweet, the theme is charming! You can find the candlestick, along with a lampshade block in issue 36 of Today's Quilter.
in and out #sncaswap
Every Saturday I join Meg and Rachel in hosting the Saturday Night Craft Along on Instagram. It's an amazing community of makers, encouraging each other and crafting the night away! This year we decided to have the first (in what we hope will be at least annual) swap. With three time zones joining in each week, it was quite the task to organise but we mixed it up and became swap mamas for other continents so we could join in the fun!
My swap partner was Jen aka Mum In The Madhouse, who I met this year at the Simply Solids retreat! So I already knew she loved Anna Maria Horner and I wanted to make her something to help her unwind and relax. She works really hard, her blog is full of amazing inspiration, ideas for family activities and so many brilliant posts! After seeing an instagram story she posted about having trouble sleeping I knew exactly what to make and gift her.
time out
Despite the fact that I can sometimes be the queen of procrastination, or more accurately procraftination, I actually find relaxing very difficult. There's not very many moments of rest in my day and there is always something to DO. I'm trying to find more calm, to be present and really pay attention to the little things.
Surfing instagram I saw that Jan @isisjem had bought a beautiful candle from @candles_n_vintagestuff. It's a clever idea, taking vintage items - Hovis bread tins, ceramic pots, mugs and glass containers - and filling them with scented EcoSoya wax candles. So I had to get one! I found this beautiful pink glass bowl scented with Fig and Cassis, which smells divine.
So I have been lighting the candle and stitching / designing / writing. It's calming and I can enjoy focusing on the work without worrying about the next thing or what else I should be doing.
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