Once Around The Block

Because I am pretty fickle - okay, downright picky - I start every new quilt by making a finished block before diving into the rest of them. I'm pretty sure this isn't any groundbreaking design rule but it sure does help me. So here's the first block in my "Honey Bee" pattern which I am shooing for releasing in early March along with a couple of other new patterns. A couple of posts ago I previewed the fabric finalists for this one, and most of them actually made it through. I still have another version of this block to do in constracting color way- we'll see how that goes!


Lots of my patterns are designed this way - make one really scrappy block and then repeat the same pieces for each block. This process adds a level of sanity to the mayhem that is my love of scraps.

There have definately been a couple of quilts in my past where when I was finished putting the blocks together a giant whoop of a "What the hell was I thinking?" has come out of my mouth and then took some evassive maneuvers with borders and such to rectify the problem.