I needed more contrast and more changes in scale, so I hit Cabbage Rose, a local shop, to see what I could add from the fabric line. I already had white, charcoal and orange solids in my stash. I created a sampler with blocks from various books and a couple blocks that I made up for myself. These are the pics, front and back, from the January meeting.
I discovered that since I didn't especially care for this fabric that it was very easy to keep cutting it up! The net result has been two more quilts. The first is a Greek Cross tesselation. I am still quilting the outer border.
The second is a traditional strip quilt made with bars of improvisational log cabin blocks interspersed with squares. I'm begging friends for a few more inches of the yellow solid to complete the borders. I did learn that pieced-block tops are self-squaring (more or less), while a strip quilt can creep out of square fairly fast. It is also a pain to square and trim!
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