Hand Pieced QAL 2019 - second set of blocks (9)

Here’s my alternate version of Block 9 in the Hand-Pieced QAL.

Block 9

• Block info:
• the Emmeline-block, or a Sawtooth Star block with a Double Pinwheel center.
• every fabric for this came from the stash at Arbis, because I got inspired by the three solids and one flower fabric someone had donated. One peach, one pale pink, one light violet, and one large print flower fabric in total.
• block cut with regular rotary cutter + rulers, then sewn with Gutermann Mara 120 (100% polyester) in color 1.
• link to block construction post
• link to link-up blog post

Cutting the fabric pieces for the double pinwheel center, I tried to fussy cut the flower-fabric into parts so that only one of the four colors was visible. It gave me a pinwheel with green, blue, pink and yellow parts. I think it turned out quite well. 

Even if the center of those pinwheels seams didn't get able to spin as well as the Emmeline-block in the Discovery quilt...

I've already sketched out a possible layout for how I want Defiant to look, and it is way more modern and with LOTS of negative space. But I think it will look really nice, and still let the blocks shine, so I'm going with it.

You'll just have to wait and see, because I think I will try to make a png-file of it in Paint (yeah, real old school here...) and add it to the post I think I need to write about Defiant when it's a done quilt top.

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Info about this quilt, written in a previous blog post:

This second set of blocks has pastel colors, where the ones for the Discovery-quilt has more warm brown and golden colors. In keeping with my impromptu theme for the Discovery, I'm calling this quilt "Defiant". That's also a name for a star ship in the Star Trek-universe - a sister ship to the famous Enterprise. And it starts with a D, just like Discovery. And it fits, since I've tried to defy the whole you-can't-really-sew-in-bed. 

Turns out, you can. But you get sore arm muscles.

( #linneaeaquiltsDefiant2019 )

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