March 13, 2013

::Block 1::

Behold my pride and joy.  I'm smiling today.  Block 1 for Amy's Virtual Quilting Bee is done!  I was able to piece it without too many mistakes and am a little amazed that I was so accurate with all those points.



Choosing fabrics that go well together is hard and takes practice.  It's so much easier to start with a collection from a fabric designer~ and I've done that plenty~ but I wanted to take a risk and pull fabrics on my own.


The seam ripper is also my friend.  I sooo want to just leave a mistake if it's not too bad, but I always feel better when I rip it out and redo it.  I ripped out one of these seems 5 times.  It was worth it.




I'm so pleased with how it turned out.  I love the colors, the variety of scales and the placement of them. In looking at blocks that other quilters made, I was pretty sure I wanted the main square and points to be the focus with the background more muted and the corners to pop a bit.





What do you think?  Do you like?

Virtual Quilting Bee


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congrats on Block 1 - love it! I'm doing the VQB as well for my first quilt along. Love your fabrics and good luck!

Jenni
QuasiQuilter.Wordpress.com

Three Sisterz said...

Thanks Jenni! Looking forward to seeing your progress!


Courtenay