Friday, April 24, 2020

April Monthly Color Challenge

The bird for April's Monthly Color Challenge is the Purple Honeycreeper - I love that name! This post is linked to Patterns by Jen Color Challenge 2020.

Jen created this pretty Square in a Square pattern which you can download (free only for the month of April) right here. All of the patterns are for 12-1/2 inch blocks, so at the end of the year I should have a nice sized quilt.

I used part of my Kate Spain Honey Honey collection from stash. I really like this block pattern and would like to see it as a quilt.

Re-done January and February blocks

I don't know about you, but sometimes I make a quilty decision that I regret down the road. You might recall I decided to make the January and February blocks 8-1/2 inches instead of 12-1/2 inches, in order to accommodate the size of my scraps. You may read about that decision here. Then I forgot to do that for the March block. I didn't want to redo the March block, so I added borders to bring the two previous blocks up to 12-1/2 inches, and that riveting post is here. Although I liked my do-over blocks, every time I looked at them they just didn't look quite right to me, and it finally drove me crazy enough to remake the blocks again! It's all good though, because I can still use the smaller blocks as part of the backing.

Be sure to go check out all the lovely birdie blocks here!

8 comments:

  1. Love the dots with the purples. Great block!

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  2. Linda, your block is beautiful! I love that Kate Spain fabric line - I had a bunch of it at one time, and have used it all up. Wish I had more! I need to work on my color challenge block, too - almost forgot about it!

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  3. anything you do is so prett y - love that february block the best.

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    1. Thanks Sandy! I like that February block too. :)

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  4. Those blues! I love that you are matching quilts to beautiful birds.

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  5. Love this beautiful block Linda! I would've had to redo the other blocks too. I like to think I can live with things but then they nag away until I put them right!! Hope you are keeping well! Christine xx

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  6. Hi Linda beautiful blocks,love the colours,well done on your beautiful work xx

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  7. Oh what pretty blues, Linda and I love that block too. As you know, I'm always second guessing myself. But in this case, bigger is better. Like you say, after a year you will have a plentiful quilt size. What a gorgeous colour that bird is too.

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