At least that's what I thought.
I put the book on the shelf and forgot about it. Until I got a text from a friend asking if I had the book. She thought we should make it and use peer pressure to keep each other accountable. There are 100 blocks so we decided to make 2 a day and send each other pictures when we had completed each day. Two little blocks a day didn't sound that bad so I agreed. We started our little challenge in August. I decided to mimic Tula Pink's colors in each block to achieve the same rainbow effect and my friend decided on a group of Kaffe Fassett fabrics.
We started off really well. I even made blocks up ahead of time for the week we spent at Disney and our camping weekends. I faithfully sent pics every day while at Disney because I knew if I didn't, JLew would stop and I might lose her for good. This was her idea after all!
50 days of commitment is a lot but even if we missed a day, we made it up the next day. Until the end when we were both dragging and we let a few slip. Our challenge is over and while I think JLew has a few blocks left to complete, over all we did really well! I have to say peer pressure works!
Some days were easy and some days had way too many pieces, but I think we both learned a lot. I know I learned a whole lot about color combinations. I used all scraps and I started just grabbing whatever came up next. It made for some interested pairings that I wouldn't have planned.
Now we just have to get together to put these monsters together over a few bottles of wine and totally inappropriate commentary.......
(There is a block missing in the very center. Somehow I missed it, pretend you don't notice!)
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