Playday

All the planets must have lined up just right for me yesterday. I spent nearly the whole day sewing! (What a great way to spend Valentine's Day!) The day before I'd made this set of blocks using the stack, slice, and shuffle method. From past experience I knew they would be a little on the boring side so before I sewed the final seam I added narrow strips.


They were still kind of bland. Blocks like these usually get trimmed down a good bit, and that will help, but I decided to see if I could take it a little further.


In the photo below, the block in the upper left corner was not one of the original set. I made it after I had been playing with sticks for several hours. Basically I started out with a chunk of the light blue, cut it in half, and then inserted strips in each half before sewing them back together again.

Here are the sticks blocks I was playing with before then:

I also layered two prints, sliced through them to make two freestyle nine patch blocks, and then decided to spice them up a bit before I reassembled them.

I made other nine patch bl0cks too:

All this play was inspired by my Intuition Quilt swap with Janet. I still don't know what I'm going to do with her block but now I have some parts to play with!