Anyhow, I wanted to post some pictures of my new blocks - remember this list? Worked a little to make a few more blocks. First up did some more paper piecing and made a Rocky Road to Kansas block (pattern from the wonderful Faith at Fresh Lemons). I am not sure I love paper piecing and this block turned out like a candy corn kind of. First I took 4 strips of assorted fabrics and sewed them together then cut out rectangles to use as the first piece for the paper piecing. I decided to just use some Kona coal for the background to make the fabrics in the star pop more.
Then I decided to make a scrappy granny square using this tutorial. I didn't realize that the block would finish at smaller than 10X10 inches. So I improvised with some crazy fabrics I had from a gray swap I did a while back. It is kind of a psychedelic block and I don't know if I love it, but it is going in the Nubee's quilt! What do you think? I think I need to work on color value placement...
I still have a churn dash block to make; and am getting excited about it after I saw these beautiful ones made by Marika of Live, Laugh, Love...Sew. Then I also still want to make a mod mosaic block. Wish me luck in my blocking!
I am trying to decide if I love the look of a quilt with lots of different blocks; like Nubee's quilts and samplers. I think they have to be done right, and mine won't be - but I will still love him :-) Below are some samplers I love that are done beautifully.
Happy Monday everyone!
kim
Both of these blocks look great. I especially like the rocky road one. I think the color placement is fine on the granny - I think what is throwing it off is the scale of some of the prints are too large.
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Your blocks are looking great! I'm with you on the sampler thing--tricky business.
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