Block 70 - Prairie Queen
This set of blocks was so fast and easy, I did all 4 of them on a Monday evening. I don't think that's ever happened before in the history of my working on this project! But that's the magic and simplicity of 9-patch blocks.
This one is called Prairie Queen, made with green and blue batiks, along with a new background neutral fabric, as I am running low on the 5 yards of viney white-on-white I started with. I love how those batiks come together with saturated colors broken up with textures and lights and darks.
No paper piecing for this one. Yay!
Block 55 - Linoleum
Not even the corner blocks for this one were paper pieced--So that made me happy. It was another chance to inject a little more orange into the overall color scheme.
Block 69 - Practical Orchard
I liked this one so much, I made it twice. Once with the batiks you see above, and the whimsical fairytale Julie Patckiss (sp?) fabrics you see below. Frog princes, mermaids, starfish and sturgeon.
I probably should have tilted that sturgeon so as not to cutoff his nose.
I still can't believe how fast this set of blocks came together.
I am getting better at trimming the hourglass blocks to size and keeping them centered. Success!
Tutorials from Handmade Karma for Week 31.
