Every year when Karen Montgomery designs her Brown Bag Mystery Quilt, she also designs a project as an introduction to the tools and techniques needed to cut and assemble quilt. This year the practice project is a “Fox and Geese Table Runner”.

I decided to only make a single block, using non-traditional St. Patrick’s Day fabric. Karen used a solid fabric for her background but my scraps only worked if I flipped it and used the patterned fabric as the background.

This is a really busy looking block and it’s a bit hard to see the star which has a pinwheel in the center of the star. It’s a large block, finishing at 16 inches square. I might make a good pillow cover.
I also think this “Fox and Geese” block would make a beautiful one block quilt with the right fabrics. But for now, I’ve got the practice project under my belt and and I’m ready for the actual BBM quilt which starts this weekend. Can’t wait to see what Karen has created this year!