I did not care one bit for this block - Queen Charlotte's Crown. So I played with stripes. I really like the way my version looks in the thumbnail where I changed the block design slightly to do something a little different. I'm showing it to you in the smallest thumbnail because it shows the effect best.
My personal stamp on the block was to have two different stripes meet up going across the block from lower left to upper right. The rest of the block is just background to that, and my photo shows that some of my seams are off. I really did hurry through the cutting and piecing.
In the original block, the upper right and lower left squares were made of half-square triangles which met the "crowns" in Y-seams at the inner corners. I don't really mind doing Y-seams anymore, but I did mind the block and thought it would be interesting to play the two stripes into each other in a more yin-yang coloration.
I like it a lot better now, so I'm thinking I should correct my sloppiness.
2 comments:
I think you made the most out of a pretty unappealing block!
Yiipes, stripes! You've got a lot going on in that block! I think it's pretty darn interesting.
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