This is block # 34/52 of the Quilters Playcation Adventure SewAlong #qpadventuresewalong being offered on Instagram, Tuesdays at 12 noon EDT by Cheryl Arkison. The theme for the week of August 23rd, 2022 was Sunlight. I decided to make a different block than the sun block Cheryl designed as I already have a sun with rays in my block #11.

I search images online of sunlight on water and sunlight through leaves. This free photo in pxhere.com stopped me in my searching tracks. I had a stack of solids just these colors near my sewing machine.

I initially just sewed strips of color together to make a block that looked just like the photo. But then decided that it would be a much better block if I added one white sail to the foreground. So I picked out the seam of the bottom blue strip and added the white triangle. Due to the additional seams around the sail, the block got smaller, but the blocks in this improv quilt are all different sizes, so this size of this block doesn’t really matter.

What does matter is that the block changed from a just OK block to a beautiful one! And that’s what matters.

It the perfect block to say Good-bye Summer!