Football Anyone?

As you most likely know already, I am part of the Brit Bee. A fabulous group of women whom I have become firm friends with over the past year. Scarily Miss April - Jo (A Life in Lists) -  was trusting us with her precious hoard of Far Far Away II. Okay, it is heart palpitatingly nerve wracking to cut my own Heather Ross stash, but to be trusted with this. Is she nuts!?!

Our mission for April was circles. Circles of any kind. Big ones, little ones, flying geese ones, whatever we liked. Cool, but the only experience I had with circles were the drunkard's path blocks. And with unerring ability it never crossed my mind that I could do them for this block. Why?!

No, instead I turned to another of my Go! Baby cutting mats and thought hexies would be a good idea. Why not, they are round(ish).

I cut my paper with the Go!
Not sure if you are supposed to be able to cut paper with it,
but I did.

And taking a deep breath I cut the fabric.
It was now butchered and there was no going back.

Used those big tacking stitches to get the fabric and paper as one.
(This is what you are supposed to do I think.
I didn't go and read any instructions or anything sensible like that.)

Sorted my lay out,
and sewed those suckers together.

Jo had included some coordinating fabrics.
I used these as the infill pieces to round out my block.

And then I found the biggest lid I owned to mark out the circle.

I turned the edges under,
pieced the linen to  make one big backing fabric,
and sewed my circle on.

Then I added some perle hand stitching,
just because.

And managed to be oblivious of my whacking big shadow when taking photos!

So Jo, basically I made you a football. I hope you don't mind.

Susan