Saturday, September 10, 2011

Week 37: Confederate Rose

I didn't want to spend a lot of time on today's block, so I redrafted it as a paper pieced pattern, piecing the center square to make that possible.


Today was a bright sunny day here in Western North Carolina, but I still had to use software to brighten the image so the prints would show up, simply because I took the photo at sundown. Sundown for us is when the sun disappears behind the ridge opposite us in the cove. It's not the same as dusk, but it does mean there's no direct light!

I briefly contemplated the more complicated version of this block, but it had even more Y seams, so I quickly came to my senses.

4 comments:

Sherrye said...

yes, the dreaded "y" seams....*sigh*...me too. Your block is beautiful....love red!

Judy said...

I am loving the red. It sets off the flower buds from last week's block. Lovely....

Dorry said...

That is a bold punch of color. Yes, I too briefly contemplated making the original version of this block but abandoned that thought quite promptly. Oh Judy, there were no buds in last weeks block! That was a figment of your imagination. It was just a block with a bunch of triangles.

Dorry said...

Whoops, of course there were a lot of buds in Cheryl's block last week as she used those very pretty rose fabrics. I was imagining the comment was about the rosebud block of a few weeks previous. I have not totally lost my marbles - well not yet anyway.