blue and white

Blue and white

or white and blue ?

I think I have enough nine patch stars now.

Yesterday I spread out the big ikat cloth with the moon

and while I was stitching the nine patches

there was someone waiting patiently

till I had time for some TLC

( his sister is not as demanding for attention as he is ...

dear house guests again for a few days )

After I had all the "nines" I wanted ( for now )

there were still little squares left

I just couldn't resist :

what this may be ???

.....

A biscornu in the making !

two nine patches sewn together :

the point of one, to the middle of the side of the other

What if ... I use only two little ones        turning with a clever forceps ...

top and bottom              or              bottom and top

an old and two new ones

( It always surprises me how much batting you can stuff in such small things )

When you go over to Eva Nerling's blog
( that's where I dicovered the biscornus )
you'll even find a tutorial
for the beautiful embroidered ones she makes !

square moon

Here she finally is :

my

Square Moon

on the border is written 

"what if    ...    the moon    ...    was a sqaure ?"

The idea came up during Jude's

Whispering Sun, moon, stars  series

She had asked herself some time before : what-if the sun was a sqaure ?

so I asked myself what if the moon was square ...

(because I had some lovely off-white nine patches with which

I made some "biscornu's")

(the inchies came from the chequer board plan that didn't work out as such, 

the biscornu was one that was blue on both sides)

This is what the nine patch moon looks like now :

the square moon

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(on to the next wip)