Chookshed Challenge - Not Much Progress Report

Remember at the start of the month I switched projects for the Chookshed Challenge to make things easier for me in a busy month? Oh, and because I couldn’t find the pattern to go with the fabric.  (Lou has now provided me with another copy of that pattern, so at least I now have the makings.  Thanks so much Lou.)

This is what I settled on and I even took it along to Scrub Stitchin’ with the hope to make a start.  Obviously, that didn’t happen.  Well, looking at the pattern photo, I realised that the fabrics would not be ideal, as quite a few had prints that weren’t a consistent colour over the whole charm square, and the pattern effect would be somewhat lost.

Time to have a rethink and come up with an alternate pattern idea for a table runner using the fabrics.  This is what I found.  I figured I could just do a couple of rows of this quilt pattern and it would work.

Then I had a better look at some of the charm “squares”…..and found that they weren’t, by quite a bit.  Blast!  That takes care of either of those patterns.  

Time to rethink once again. I want to use up those charm squares. They were in our project pack at Girls Day in the Country back in 2013, and our project didn’t require them to be cut into squares, so it wasn’t an issue back then.

Therefore, I figured I need to also do something that doesn’t require squares…. Ta da!  You can make four one inch hexies from a charm square.  There are 68 roughly cut hexies there, ready to glue baste and then do something with.  Probably not a table runner, but who knows. Also, the variations in the fabrics works really well now that they will be hexies.  

All I know is that whatever I make, it won’t be finished in April, but I at least want to have them basted.  My new plan is to have them made into something by the end of the year.  I really would like to have all the Challenge projects done by then.

Wish me luck and I will check in at the end of the month.