You’ll have seen that I plan to complete Sherri’s mystery block a month quilt and in my last post I shared the test blocks which I made into my eighth charity quilt, today I’m sharing the centre block I made for my own quilt.
And yes, this is June’s block in August - I’m still catching up with myself and a more relaxed blogging approach this month is also contributing. But that’s life, hey.
We’re also back on the stars, this month’s is a Happy Friendship Star and the star also means we’re back on the navy blue fabrics, which I’m using for alternate blocks.
Learning from my test blocks
The purpose of my ‘stretch project’ is to up my skills, and this month that clearly also includes reading all of the instructions. Somehow I missed trimming my Half Square Triangles (HSTs) in the Raspberry Plus quilt which also probably explains why I wasn’t overly happy with my joins.
This time though I’ve learnt.
And my points were much better, but still not perfect - though good enough!
I spent more time than I should have working out which borders were required for this month’s block - and that was even after many looks at and double checking my handy drawing. But I got there, and the right borders are in the right place.
It’s turned out ok, hasn’t it?
I even spent some time ‘fussy cutting’ the centre square to get the pattern centred, and I think that was definitely worth the time it took. So that’s six months in on this mystery block quilt, six months of blocks left - and then there’s the assembling. I think it’s going to look really special, but there’s a while to go yet!