I actually started this challenge on Sunday, the day it was posted by Kim and Trish. The challenge was to incorporate traditional Birds in the Air quilt blocks into a project in some way shape or form. These blocks are made from triangles. While cleaning my sewing table off on Sunday, I found plethora of itty bitty triangles, some finished half square triangles and a whole bunch of vaguely triangular shaped scraps. Perfect. It was a given that those treasures would become my birds in the air blocks. So, I sat down and made three. They were SO cute! SO much fun! I combined them with the already made HST's and decided they could play nicely enough together to be used int he same project. Then I made some more HSTs from the scrap pile to pull it together.
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| I zen-pieced a bunch of low volumes together to use as half of some HST's . Love the result! |
When I went to bed on Sunday I was't sure what the project was going to be, but I knew I had a start. Sometime on Monday it occurred to me that I could use this challenge to make something I've been wanting to make for myself - a tablet stand! After years of internally rolling my eyes at other people's Netflix addictions I've recently discovered that there are some really GOOD things to watch! Plus, we ditched cable and got Sling, which I can access on my tablet, so now...HALLMARK CHANNEL IN THE SEWING ROOM!!! There is a slight possibility my family will file a missing person's report one day soon, because, truly, there is no reason to come out of there now.
With lots to watch, plus my tried and true podcasts to listen to, my tablet is my best sewing accessory these days. It deserves its own home. Plus, having it upright makes viewing easier and reduces the likely hood that I will run over the edge with a rotary cutter or loose the tablet under a pile of scraps.
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| The pink fabric with the birds is the ONE thing here that wasn't scrap. But it kinda had to be in there. |
So, the initial hodgepodge of BITA blocks and HSTs was slowly but surely joined by more through out the week. I consulted several Youtube video tutorials and a few blog posts including this one by Factotum of Arts to get an idea of how to construct a triangular stand, and then I just kind of went for it. Getting all my blocks in without cutting them was more important to me than the size of the finished project, so it's a bit ridiculously big. But, it's done and I love it.. It is filled with walnut shells for the base and a bunch of fiberfill. I"m so glad to use some of that up. I had an almost full bag of fiberfill left over from stuffing turbans for Aladdin and I just don't use it that often. So, the bit that's inside my new tablet stand makes me very happy indeed. And, I am ridiculously happy to not have just thrown out those itty bitty triangles. They are so cute in those little bird in the air blocks.
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| Virgin River. Are you watching it?? SO Good. And there's some good quilt spotting to be done, too! |
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| Such a useful little thing... |
It's hard to see the bird in the air blocks when you look at my tablet stand in use. It's actually hard to see the stand when its in use. But I know they're there, and I'd rather have a cute quilty stand on my table than one ordered from Amazon any day.
Linking up with Kim at Persimon Dreams, the Project Quilting Headquarters just under the wire. Again. Fingers crossed for a prize this week!!
Tablet Stand for the WIN!! I agree about that bird print. Even though it wasn't a scrap... it HAD to go in there!
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