Block twenty three: Spool

I had to include this block due to it looking like a spool. The suffragettes were sewers at heart and sewed their banners to demonstrate their wish for the right to vote. I recently listened to a brilliant audiobook called Threads of Life all about women and the role sewing has played throughout history, well worth a read! There is also a song by Somerset artist Kitty MacFarlane called Sea Silk which has a similar message:

"The scholar writes the soldier's story

But I tell mine in cloth

this the way my mother taught me

Gold as the dusted moth

It can't be sold, this thread of gold

It belongs to womankind

So I weave it in and turn it out

This burnished silk of mine"

I am slightly disappointed with this block, my points are slightly off. I wanted to create the impression that the thread is wrapped around the spool so I cut it into strips. Each strip was 3cm wide and 11cm long. First sew the thread strips together and attach to the spool blocks at the end. Then sew the triangles and sew all the blocks together in vertical strips.