How Many Squares in Fig
Today I discovered Project Quilting through Pretty Lady Baby‘s blog. Remarkably, they’re in their fourth season, how did I not know about this?? For their kick-off, the first challenge is A Square in A Square. What better block to enter than my “How Many Squares” puzzle block? So this morning, I chose a colour palette from Design Seeds, selected my fabrics and went to work following my own directions.
Thankfully my pattern seems to be correct and the block went together quickly. The most difficult task in this process was laying out the colours. In addition to the original palette, I added Kona Snow and Ash. To set the block off, I added a big, chunky 4.5″ border on all sides in Kona Slate.
My next decision will by how to quilt this. I’m thinking using perle cotton and hand quilting. What do you think?
This block looks soooooo good! The colors just jump out – I am really encouraged to do some work with solids after seeing what you’ve done. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Liz! I think I’m going to try this block again in a monochrome colour palette. I’ve found that having 8 different hues/colour a must!
Looks great, Tabatha!
Thanks M-R!
I like this block as I love solids. If I was hand quilting this design I would do concentric circles, some overlapping and/or offset. Good luck! Avis x
Well, you’re really close, I’m quilting it with an orange peel pattern in four quadrants. Photos to come this afternoon.
Yey!
Definitely, you should hand quilt it! Great choice of colour too Tabatha!
Thanks Patti, love the colour palettes from design seeds!!
I love this block! And the colors are perfect!
Thanks Carol, I’m going to try it in a monochrome palette as well.
If it were me, I would do concave curves (caving in from all edges towards the center) or something with diagonal motifs. I can’t picture the perle cotton for some reason. I’m picturing more subtlety in this block. I love how it turned out, colors and craftsmanship are great!
Thanks Cathy, I’m in the process of quilting it with an orange peel pattern. I also thought it would be interesting to quilt a bull’s eye either from the centre out or off center would probably be more interesting!
Lovely – great colours, and now I’m off to find out what “Project Quilting” is.
I know, why didn’t we know about Project Quilting before now??
Nice colours, that’s always my big challenge. This looks great. Project Quilting… I also am off to see what this is about.
That is a very nice block. I’m scared to check out one more new thing. Gosh it is still the beginning of January! lol
Well I am so glad you were able to join in on the fun!