In between sewing pink alternate blocks, I sometimes feel the need to give myself a color break. My mom gave me some leftover scraps from her Twilight in the Garden quilt, and some were actually big enough to make an Aunt Beulah’s Arrowheads block. I just pulled out some darker green scraps from my own scrap bin, and I like how this turned out.
I also made another “frenzied” color block. It might have looked just a little better with a darker blue or deep purple, but I’m just going with it. This is going to be one of those wild quilts with a lot of everything thrown in kind of like the original (except that the original had all those adorable double-knit fabrics, which just make me love it more).
I started this one with the floral print first. Then I saw the blue and thought it would coordinate.
These large nine-patches are a nice break from the 25-patch blocks of Off the Rhododendron Trail. I enjoy picking out two random (but hopefully coordinating) fabrics and making the simple blocks. I might try making half of them with the lighter squares in the X and half of them with darker squares there.
Really like the top block! Is the dotted material a batik?
Thanks! No, the dotted material isn’t a batik, it’s just a regular cotton fabric I’ve had in stash for a while, in my “scraps of various sizes” storage box. It was really too big to be in there, but I imagine I threw it in there one day when doing a “cleaning whirlwind” instead of taking the time to put it back into the green fabrics container.
I keep looking at the material your mother gave you–I love it. And your scraps are wonderful, too.