This week's block is the Lady of the Lake. There are many versions
of this block - happily the one chosen works nicely with my 9 inch size
so this was quick to make.
We
still don't have our good SLR camera back. These photos were taken with the
little digital that tends to overexpose. It's also very hard to get this camera's
small face squared up with the subject. My block really is square with
the triangle points all nicely aligned.
I never posted my block from last week - it's Caroline's Choice.
The block is constructed of two pinwheel and two hourglass blocks - I decided to make it as though I were putting together a scrappy quilt of blocks of each type so I could use more different fabrics. I'm not sure it will wind up in my quilt - there are several blocks I'm not thrilled about that will probably be set aside.
I still don't have a setting in mind for these. I like each block, but as a sampler group, I'm finding them distinctly uninteresting. This one, with the iris print in the corner, doesn't fit in, but now I wish I'd had and used more fabrics like it to liven up the batch. I think too, for a sampler, I miss the variety that a couple of applique blocks would have brought to the mix. The whole group may languish while I finish up the WWI quilt and other projects that pop up ,,,unless I find some wild print like those huge irises to set it with - that would breathe new life into me, if not the quilt.
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