What's For Breakfast? Mondrian and Ikat Of Course

Instead of eating breakfast this morning all I wanted to do was make my November Bee Blocks - remember I shared the fabric and instructions with you yesterday?

So that's exactly what I did and here's the results

the block on the left is 16.5" x 16.5" and the block on the right is 15.25" x 13.5"

In the end I changed my design for the right hand block so I could make a larger block and use more of the fabric I'd been sent.

While I was busy sewing, Simon picked up some pain au chocolat for us and Flicky's house guests - which were far more scrummy than the healthy breakfast option I'd have made for myself.  While all this was going on Tatty busily wrapped herself up in my Juicebox Sofa Quilt - I just love my dog xxx

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Ikat and Mondrian - My November Bee Block 

And you can click this link to see all of my NYC Mod Quilt Guild Bee Blocks and Challenge Blocks/Quilts.

 

 

Ikat and Mondrian - My November Bee Block

My NYC Mod November Bee Block fabric and instructions have arrived courtesy of Dorothy, our November Queen Bee.

What a package!

I've never worked with, or even seen, Ikat fabric before so that's something really new for me.  And then Dorothy's given us fab instructions to work along the lines of Piet Mondrian - well that set me off searching through photos I'd taken on one of my many trips to Tate Britain, London, knowing that I'd snapped a pic of one of his pieces there.

Piet Mondrian - Composition C (No.iii) with Red, Yellow and Blue 1935, Tate Britain, London, England

I've started having a think about how to put these blocks together and here's my favourite ideas so far.

I can feel another, busy, arty, sewing afternoon coming on :)

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What's For Breakfast? Mondrian and Ikat Of Course