My Little Buttercup

Moda released a new line of fabrics in February and I fell in love with them at our LQS Saturday while waiting for the IMQG March meeting.

I came home with these

beautiful prints!  There are very few lines I have to have more than one print or color from.  These were just too gorgeous, soft, cottagey and feminine to pass up.

I don't have plans for them yet.  I just like looking at them and waiting to be inspired.

This is what happens when you're up late waiting for your college freshman to call you for a ride home from a cultural event.  Hubby sweets and Bean had already gone to bed and Middleman had agreed to ride to campus with me to pick Javi up.  Well, due to a miscommunication, Javi rode the shuttle bus home and forgot to call and tell us he wouldn't need a ride.

I had been playing around the with whirleygig applique and couldn't quite convince myself to work on it that late at night.  I started playing with scraps from my scrap box and my Stack-N-Whack fan ruler.  I cut cute little 3" Dresdens and started laying them out in a circle.  Didn't like the look of that and intimidated at how big the circle would be and how many I would have to cut.  

Laying on my cutting mat was a hexagon from the Jack's Chain wip.



This is what happened when I laid the Dresdens out in a hexagonal pattern.

I pressed a 1/4" seam on the sides of the Dresdens and only appliqued the top ones onto the white.  I like the 3-D effect it gives the block.  Then I cut out a hexagon that would fit in the middle and appliqued it on.

Voila!

I'm thinking of making four of these blocks and turning them into a table runner for Spring/Summer. 

These blocks are fun and fast to make and I definitely see more in my future!

I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday.  If you want to be inspired, encouraged and see some fresh, happy projects in the works...head on over!

Sending you happy thoughts and sunshiney weather!