I truly love making One Block Wonder Quilts. You never know how they will look which is the hard part and the Eureka part. I hate making jigsaw puzzles because the photo is already on the box, so why am I doing it?
I have had this fabric for a while. Cutting it up properly is a precision thing and a goof up can hardly be fixed, so that is why it sat. I am always looking for large scale florals to make one and I need eight repeats, so it is difficult. I have not found one in a while. Only certain fabrics work. The ratio of background and print has to be just perfect. This fabric could have used a little less black and more flowers. If anyone knows of any candidates out there for sale, drop me a note. I don't see any right now in my searching.
I cut the fabric up before that last retreat in November and have been slowly piecing the octagons in pairs as leader and enders. Finally, all octagons sewn! I follow the assembly in the One Block Wonder book for the octagon blocks because they end up being sewn together as square blocks, not weird half blocks like the hexagons.
At first, I had them in a long rectangle shape, but that did not work out. Once I had them sort of settled in a different configuration, I started adding the "Sensational Squares" as the author calls them. Then things get even more interesting. There are scores of photos of ideas but here are some. Still not decided what layout.
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The design really pops after the corner triangles are added.
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