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 thirteenth charity quilt, today - a little later than normal - I’m sharing the centre block I made for my own quilt.
Despite being pleased with how I’d previously conquered this block for my charity quilt, it wasn’t until yesterday that I cut out and made my own block. And then I quickly remembered that it wasn’t anywhere near as daunting as my mind would have me believe!
I’d been playing with the colour options for my blocks but in the end settled on these, though I did intentionally switch the placement at the last minute when I realised the cream fabric would look better framed with the darker fabric.
I was even more pleased to discover that previous me had already cut the interfacing for the quarter circle - that saved me some time, and once I got started the quarter Dresden block came together quickly.
For my test blocks, and subsequent charity quilt, I’d tested out various stitches to attach the petals to the backing square. And while these worked well, in the end I decided to stick with a plain stitch, but opted to stitch as close to the edge as I could. That turned out to be pretty close in the end with the sewing machine going oh so slowly!
I’m really pleased with how it turned out, though as I started to add the borders I remembered to check and decide which way I wanted the quadrant to face, and typically it wasn’t the way I’d set up in the photo above.
It’s been a while since I’ve used the original green fabrics for the borders so there was lots of checking and double checking to make sure I was adding them in the same way as before to avoid any unecessary unpicking.
Before I knew it the eleventh block of my mystery block quilt was completed, so there’s just one more block to go - and that final charity quilt of this series. I’ve not started it yet, but it is another star. After that there’ll be more decisions on how to finish the quilt - I’m looking forward to seeing it all laid out together, it’s been a long time coming!
Join me hopefully soon to see how I get on with the next mystery block, and check out my previous posts for my mystery block quilt or the charity quilts made from the test blocks.