"Floral Latte"--Low Volume Plus Sign Quilt Top

Here is my "Floral Latte", low volume plus sign quilt design, finished top.

"Disruption" in pattern to create more interest has been my theme this fall. In this quilt the disruption is in the 3rd vertical column of block from the left. All the blocks in the horizontal rows are the same block. But in the 3 vertical row, it's the opposite block.

I also added the narrow orchid strip and a plain border just on the left side of the quilt.

I tried out lots of various layouts on my design wall--but this is the layout that I found the most interesting and the most pleasing!

I left the background in the photo this time--I like how the autumn color in the trees and the leaves on the ground compliment this quilt!

And speaking of compliments...a shout out to my friend Suzanne for giving me the inspiration for this quilt's name!  Thanks!

Tutorial: "Leave Me a Message" Envelope Pillow

I've been collecting travel/stamp fabric thinking I would use them for a quilt. But when I saw a video on Creativebug.com showing how to make envelopes from magazine pages I realized I could make fabric envelopes!  And what could be more fun than sewing an envelope on a pillow? I'm thinking the pillow could be left on someone's bed or chair with a message tucked in the envelope for a special day--sort of a variation of putting a message in a lunch box!

So here's a TUTORIAL so you can make your own "Leave me a Message" envelope Pillow.

Materials:

1.  14 inch square purchased pillow form. (You could also make your own).
2.  Paper envelope to use a template--at least 4 x 6 inches or use larger a greeting card envelope.
3.  Plain paper to make a pattern for your fabric envelope
4.  1 Fat quarter of a fabric for the pillow front
5.  1 Fat quarter for the inside of the envelope
6.  1 Fat quarter for the exterior of the envelope
7. 1/4 inch pre-made bias double fold bias tape or 2 1/2 inch wide strip of fabric, at least 12 inches long. (Does not need to cut on the bias).  You can make a regular quilt binding or use a Clover Tape Maker: Width 25mm, 1" to make a double fold tape
8. 1/2 yard of fabric for the back of the pillow
9. Matching sewing thread
10. Pearle cotton #8 contrasting color for hand stitching on envelope
11. Chenille needle, or needle with eye wide enough for the Pearle cotton
12. 1 decorative button
13. 1/8 inch ribbon to make loop to close the envelope
14. Tailor's chalk or other non-permanent marking pencil or pen
15. 16 1/2 inch square quilting ruler--helpful but not necessary
16. Sewing machine with open toe foot.  A walking foot also very helpful but not mandatory.

Instructions:

• Cut one 15 1/2 inch square for the front of the pillow
• Cut two 10 1/2 inch x 15 1/2 inch rectangles for the back of the pillow

Using a quilting ruler to cut the cover

• Carefully take a paper envelope apart and smooth it flat
• Cut off the envelope flap along the fold line
• Lay the two envelope pieces on a plain piece of paper. You may need to tape two pieces of paper together to make a piece large enough for the body of the the envelope.
• Trace around the body of the envelope and around the flap. 
• Now draw a 1/4 inch seam allowance around all sides of both the envelope body but ONLY the lower edge of the flap on your pattern.
• Mark the fold lines from the template envelope on your pattern
• SAVE the paper envelope used as the template. It helps to refer back to it when you fold your fabric envelope.

Envelope pattern pieces and intact template envelope

• Place fabric for inside of envelope and outside of envelope RIGHT SIDES together. Pin on the 2 pattern pieces. Cut out the envelope pieces.
• Mark where the two fold lines will be at the top edge of the envelope body
• Using a 1/4 inch seam, sew the two parts of the envelope BODY together, leaving the top edge between the 2 fold lines OPEN. (The envelope flap will be sewn tucked into this opening later).
• Trim the points on the envelope body and clip notches. Be careful NOT to cut your stitches!
• Turn the envelope body right sides out. Press, turning the raw edges under 1/4 inch at the top.

Envelope body turned right sides out and pressed, with raw edges at top turned in 1/4 inch and pressed flat

• Make a double fold tape using the Clover Bias Tape Maker OR make quilt binding OR cut a commercial 1/2 inch bias fold tape the length needed to cover the two upper sides of the envelope flap. 12" is probably long enough.
• Cut a piece of 1/8 inch ribbon about 2 inches long, fold in half
• Turn the envelope flap pieces so they are WRONG SIDES together
• Attach the 1/2" tape or binding to the two upper sides of the flap, leaving the BOTTOM EDGE OPEN. Miter the corners.
• Tuck the folded ribbon into the miter at the point of the envelope flap.  Tack it down.
• Finish sewing the tape to the edges of the flap.

• Tuck the raw edges of the flap 1/4 inch into the opening at the top of the envelope body
• Pin in place
• Sew flap to the envelope body using a edging stitch

• On the INSIDE of your envelope, mark the Fold Lines using tailor's chalk or non-permanent fabric marking pen.  TIP: Check your template paper envelope to see where the fold lines should be.
• Determine where you want the envelope on the front panel of your pillow.  Pin completed the flat OPEN envelope to front pillow panel.
• Sew the open envelope to front pillow panel along the two side fold lines and bottom fold line. Don't sew across the top edge where the flap is.

Sewing the flat, open envelope to front pillow panel. Note blue marking line, drawn along fold line of envelope body.

• Fold envelope and pin. Refer back to paper envelope template if needed.
• Sew on button
• Using the Perle cotton, stitch the envelope closed. Make sure you don't accidentally sew the front of the envelope to the back of the envelope!

• To make the pillow back: Fold one long raw edge down 1/4 inch both back pieces. Press.  NOTE: If the design of the back fabric is directional, turn down the lower edge of the top half and the upper edge of the bottom half.
• Fold over again 1/4 inch. Press. Sew folds closed stitching close to the edge.
• Lay the upper half of the back on top of the front of the pillow, RIGHT sides together.
• Lay the bottom half of the back on top of the front of the pillow, overlapping the upper half of the back. Pin front and back pieces together.
• Sew SCANT 1/4 inch seam around all 4 sides of the pillow cover.
• Trim the corners. Turn right side out, making sure to fully turn the corners. Press.
• On the outside of the pillow cover, top stitch 1/4 inch around all 4 sides on the front of the pillow.  The top stitching will cover the raw edges inside the pillow cover.

• Insert the purchased pillow form.
• Write a note, tuck it in the envelope and leave it for someone special!  You should also find a pocket behind the envelope--a place to hide a little present or a piece of chocolate!

Hope you enjoy your "Leave Me a Message" Envelope Pillow!

Suggestion:  One of my friends thinks this would be a great place to keep a rosary, using it as a Prayer Pillow.  I think that would another great way to use this pillow! Thanks for that idea, Janet!

The Fine Print: Copyright 2016 Judith Tucker. Feel free to use this tutorial to make pillows for friends and family.  It's also fine to make a pillows to sell on craft table at a fair or quilt show. If you do sell pillow covers, please credit the design to www.sleepingdogquilts.com. Thanks!        Use for commercial purposes is NOT allowed.

Low Volume Plus Sign Quilt in Progress

I'm zipping right along with the Low Volume Floral Plus Sign Quilt!

As shown above, there was a near catastrophe on the design wall when two of the dogs decided to wrestle right in front of my quilt! Fortunately I moved the excitement to another room in time!!  (Though for the record, I did have a back up photo of my design).

Low Volume Floral Plus Sign Quilt--ready to Sew

As November comes to Massachusetts, the trees have dropped their brilliant yellow and red leaves, daylight is gone by late afternoon and the landscape is now shades of gray and brown.

So I wasn't surprised when I found myself digging down to the bottom of one of the bins in my stash, looking for the "Sew Chic" stack of 10 inch square florals that I purchased from Keepsake Quilting a couple years ago.  This collection has lots of large print flowers and a few of smaller scale.

My friend Janet loves to make quilts with multiple shades of the same or similar colors as the background. I'm going to follow her lead with this quilt and use a Kona® Cotton Solids "Sand Castle" stack of 10 inch squares, which was also in my stash.

This quilt is a stretch for me. I rarely use large scale florals and almost never use shades of tan. I'm much to likely to gravitate to tints of yellow than beige and brown.

I'm designing a plus sign quilt. More than half the blocks will be mostly negative space using the various background colors. 

The fabrics are all cut and ready to sew--floral sunshine therapy for gray days!

Doll Quilt--Lab Puppies

One last look at a Lab Puppies quilt.  This one is a doll quilt.   I incorporated the asymmetric borders from the lap quilt, but these blocks have a symmetric layout. It is quilted just off the ditch, with decorative stitching on the bottom border and the Bernina #4 stitch on the left side. 

The back is fleece, so there is no batting in this little project.  The binding was made of scraps of other quilt bindings--I think these scrappy bindings are my favorite!

Lab Puppies Quilt: A Simple Alternate Grid Quilt With Instructions to Design Your Own

As promised, here is the completed Lab Puppies quilt! 

It has a very simple alternate grid layout.  One square block was added randomly to each row of rectangular blocks. Those blocks add just enough disruption in the design to make the design more interesting and to give it some movement.

This is an easy design for for a quilt with fussy cut blocks that are all cut to the same dimensions. Here are instructions to design your own quilt.

1. Determine the size of the fussy cut blocks and cut enough for the size quilt you plan to make. The number of fussy cut blocks will be approximately half the number of blocks needed for the entire quilt.
2. The pieced 3 strip blocks are cut to the same width and height of the fussy cut blocks. To determine the width to cut each strip: add 1 inch to the width of the fussy cut block then divide that number by 3. You need the same number of strip blocks as fussy cut blocks. 
3. Cut 1 square block the height of the fussy cut block, using a different fabric--either a solid or fabric that reads as a solid. Cut one square for each row in the quilt.
4. Using a design wall, lay out the blocks, alternating fussy cut blocks with pieced strip blocks.
5. Now randomly add a square to each strip to disrupt the symmetric layout.  Scatter them around the quilt. In my design I always had a square paired with a fussy cut block. Do what looks good to you.
6. Cut the right hand border the height of the pieced quilt top.
7. Cut the bottom borders the full width of the quilt AFTER the right border is added.
8. Have fun designing your quilt!

Quilt Design: Walking Through the Process, Asymmetric Borders

In my last post I discussed how I decided on the layout for my Lab Puppies Quilt. In this post we'll look at the assembly of the quilt and I'll discuss my decisions about the quilt's borders.

The photo above shows the quilt in the assembly process.  At the top is a section of the completed top. Below that are 4 rows of blocks which have been sewn together.  Under the completed strips are cut patches waiting for their turn at a the sewing machine.  At the very bottom a possible layout for a border.

My rail fence strips were cut from 10 inch precut squares.  The dog blocks are 4 inches high so I was able to cut 2 rail fence block from each strip set. And 2 inches of pieced strips were "waste".

Right. No quilter really likes to toss anything she (he) spent time carefully piecing.  I cut the rail block remnants into 1 3/4 inch x 4 inch strips and turned them to sew them end-to-end, making a narrow pieced border strip.  The strips of solids were left after I cut the 4 inch patches from the solid 10" precut squares.

The pieced quilt top was just 38 1/2 inches wide. That's narrow, so I decided to add more solid rectangles to the left side of the quilt to make the quilt 42 inches wide.

To continue the "disruption" I discussed in my previous post I did two things.

1. I ran the right border to the bottom of the pieced quilt top. I sewed that border on first. Then I added the bottom 3 borders which run the width of the now wider quilt top.
2. I added one block with a single Labrador from another fabric in my Black Labrador Puppies line!

Completed Lab Puppies Quilt Top

I hope you enjoyed seeing how I worked through the process of creating the original Lab Puppies quilt pattern.
 

Quilt Design: Walking Through the Process, Creating the Lab Puppies Quilt

I have a tendency to show a block or a stack of fabrics and the next time that project appears it is finished quilt top or a completed quilt.  How a design actually becomes to a quilt remains a mystery!  So I thought I'd walk you through the design process for my Lab Puppies quilt.

I had fat quarters of my Lab Puppies fabric in 5 colors. I found I could fussy cut the pair of dogs into patches 5 inches wide and 4 inches high without "wasting" any of the printed dogs.

I also had 2 stacks of 10 inch precuts. One stack was 1930s reproduction fabrics and the other was solid colors which coordinate with 1930's fabrics. They were in my stash, purchased previously from Keepsake Quilting. I decided to alternate my dog blocks with pieced rail fence blocks, with strips cut from the patterned '30s fabrics.

Here is my original layout on my design wall (the fuzzy side of a picnic tablecloth).

Symmetric layout, with fussy cut dog blocks alternating with rail fence blocks

It was nice.  Nothing wrong with it--just not exciting.

I gave myself a time-out see if an idea for better layout surfaced. I decided to sit down and watch Lisa Congdon's Creativebug class, More Sketchbook Explorations.  During the video of the first chapter she commented that the eye prefers a "little bit of disruption in the overall composition." BINGO!  I literally shot out of my chair and went to the cutting table.

I cut 4 inch squares out of the stack of solid '30s colors.  I randomly placed a single solid color block next to a dog block in each row of the quilt.

Lab Puppies "Disrupted" Layout on the Design Wall

The random block create a much more interesting design!!  My eye recognized the disruption but only the purple solid square really stood out. I had to really look to find the solid patches in the other rows!

I love the "cross-pollination" between different genres. A drawing/doddling class provided the idea for the the "distrupted" layout which made a better quilt design!

In my next post I'll discuss my unconventional borders.

Lab Puppies Quilt

Lab puppies!!  I'm really looking forward to working on this new quilt project.  I'm using my Black Lab Puppies fabric, available at my shop at Spoonflower.com, and some of my stashed collection of 1930s feed sack reproduction fabrics.

The puppies are printed on baby blue, light blue, aqua, pink and peach backgrounds--all colors which coordinate beautiful with the 30s fabrics.

My fussy cut Lab Puppies block is 4 inches x 5 inches.  I'll pair them with striped blocks the same finished size. The strips for the pieced block are cut 2 inches wide.  Sewing 3 strips together with 1/4 inch seams gives a block 5 inches wide. The strip pieced section can then be cut in 4 inch lengths to make 4 x 5 inch finished blocks.

I've put my cut strips in my drawstring bag and am going to try random piecing for the strip blocks! (I'm not good at sticking to random. We'll see)!!

It's going to be a happy, scrappy quilt!

Pink and Aqua with Stars Quilt

The Pink and Aqua with Stars lap quilt is done! 

Stars you ask?  If you look carefully, you will find 2 large hot pink/red 8 pointed stars with 16 patch centers. it also features squares in squares, both large and small,  and 3 chains of grey patches, one long and two short!

The quilt has one border, on the bottom, featuring triangles that look like pennants hanging on a line. 

This really is lap quilt.  The colors and pattern play best together when seen at close.

Pink, Aqua and Grey...Work in Progress

This is my current work in progress.  It's a play on the grid--larger elements repeat as smaller ones and there are chains and 8 pointed stars.

The fabric colors are so close in their density that the patterns in the quilt are mostly obscured.  What looks random and a bit chaotic, is actually not!

Mono Prints, Take Two: This Time with a Gel Printing Plate

Having just finished 2 quilts, I don't have a new quilting project to share.  I have designed a new Half Square Triangle quilt pattern but the quilt still is still a very young Work-in-Progress! (Too shy to be shown yet)!

So I thought I show you what I've made using another mono printing process that I learned on Creativebug.com.  This month Creativebug just released a new class series, "Playing with Surface Design: Mark Making" with Courtney Cerutti.  In one of the class segments Courtney shows how to make mono prints using a gel printing plate and acrylic paints.  Once I'd collected the necessary supplies, all listed in her class materials, I was able to get right to printing on my kitchen counter!

While walking the dogs the other morning, I picked some leaves that look like hearts.  I was going to use some asters growing in my yard but it was just after dusk when I finally found the time to do the print. When I went to pick them, the flowers closed up tight for the night!  Printing the open flowers would have been great, but there's just no way to get a good print when a flower has gone to bed!  I tried!! Here are the plants I'd planned to use.

When printing using objects on the gel plate, you can make two different prints each time the plate is loaded with paint. The first print is bold, the second airy with fine details.

First print on the left, second print on the right

Since I wasn't able to print the asters on the plate, I got out my watercolor brush pens and drew the flowers in on the second print!  (I added some other designs to the first print too)!

This process is so much fun! And it's easy!  If you are interested in trying gel plate mono printing, I really recommend this Creativebug.com class!  And there are two more segments in this class with other easy ways to create surface designs which are also great.

Random Letters! Quilt

I'm so excited to show my "Random Letters!" quilt today!  This quilt was inspired by the Uppercase fabric line designed by Janine Vangool and printed by Windham Fabrics.  All the letters, and some of the background, were pieced using the Uppercase fabrics.

I designed the letters myself, using a 5x5 block grid for each letter.  I limited the pieces in each letter block to squares and multiples of squares, half square triangles and quarter square triangles. No curves or applique were allowed! 

It was a challenge!  Some letters were harder to design than others.  I owe the letter "V" to a good friend who is a calligrapher/letterpress printer/typographer.  She looked at my "V" and thought it could be better. We sat at her kitchen table, each with our graph paper, and tried again. She found a good solution before I did!  Many thanks to E for the letter "V"!

Note:  There are patterns available for pieced letters.  I'd never had any interest in piecing letters before and I didn't look at any of they available designs before I drew out my own.  Except for the V, these are all my invention.

On the steps at the skateboard park

It seemed appropriate to make this quilt with letter blocks because the Uppercase fabric designs were originally graphic designs used on the covers of Uppercase Magazine!  (Click the link to seecovers from back issues of the magazine).  Letters = printed text!

I turned two of my letters on their side because letters in the "All Caps" pattern of the Uppercase fabric were turned.  Turning the letters also adds a more modern look to the quilt!

The above photo is the back of the quilt. It's fun to see all the beautiful colors of the Uppercase fabrics stacked up together in a column.  (The floral and solids aren't part of the Uppercase line).

My quilt design originally had 26 letter blocks and 4 blocks of negative space.  With just 4 empty blocks, the negative space didn't balance well. So I added punctuation!  

It's quilted with straight line quilting, done with a walking foot.  I used both pale grey and light blue green thread for the quilting.

This is a quilt for young and old alike!  I took these photos at the local skateboard park just to emphasize the fact that this is "so not your typical ABC" nursery quilt!  (Quote thanks to my teenage niece)!

"Random Letters!" is definitely one of my all time favorite quilts!

Hexagon Log Cabin Quilt

I have two new quilts to share with you this week.

Every summer the Proper Bostonian Quilters guild has a Summer Challenge. (Lest our hand be idle in the summer months when we don't have meetings)!  This summer the challenge was hexagons.

English Paper piecing immediately comes to mind when hexagons are mentioned. But there are other ways to create hexagons, including using strips of 60 degree triangles.

I, however, trod completely off any beaten path by deciding to make a Hexagon Log Cabin quilt!

I had a stack of laser pre-cut hexagons in my stash.  I decided to get out my bag of remnant fabric strings and use them to make log cabin blocks using the hexagon pre-cuts as the enter patch. 

I quickly understood why houses typically are constructed with 4 sides.  It took SO much longer to add strips of fabric to 6 sides of each block!  My fabric strings were a variety of widths of the quilt has a modern improv character, which I really like.  I had some handmade EPP hexagon blocks which I appliqued on the center of some of the log cabin blocks. So this quilt has a little bit of everything!

I quilted it it using free-form organic curves which follow the lines in the blocks. It looks great on the front of the quilt, but rather a mysterious mess on the back!

Back of the Hexagon Log Cabin Quilt

This was an interesting exercise.  Even though I really like this quilt which has so much amazing visual motion, I can't imagine I'll ever make another one!

Black Lab Puppies Mono Print Projects

I am having so much fun with my new Black Lab Puppies Mono Print fabrics available from my Shop at Spoonflower.com.

Above is a toddler's fleece hoodie.  The pattern, Yia-Yia's Snuggle Hoodie, is from the book, Little One Yard Wonders.  It was really easy to sew up!  It's perfect for the cool Fall days which will be here soon!

I also made a little "Hugging Pillow" to give the the older sister of the baby boy who is getting my Busy Beach Town Quilt. It my Black Labs printed on Minky on one side and cotton fabric from the "Uppercase" line from Windham fabrics on the back.

Spoonflower.com wisely requires makers to order test prints of new designs. (I've caught some errors in the printed fabric that I never saw on my computer screen).  The most economical way to get a test sample is to order an 8 inch square swatch, seen on the far left below.  It's a fun challenge to find ways to use the swatches. This little 8 inch square pillow is a great size for a 2 year old to hug and carry around!

Our church organist and his wife, a soloist in the choir, are also expecting a baby.  The church ladies had a baby shower for them last weekend.  I made a little taggie, a mini security blanket, for them.  It is 10 inches square, with Minky on the front and 100% organic cotton sateen on the back.  Both are fabrics are available from my Spoonflower shop.  (I sewed around the edges of the ribbon tags. I worry about little fingers getting trapped in open loops and having circulation cut off). 

And finally, I've added another Black Lab puppy to the fabric collection.  This puppy is a bit older than the paired puppies and so a big larger.  She is wearing a bandana with the cherries print on the right with the darker blue background. This pattern is "Farmers_Market_Cherries", also available in my shop at Spoonflower.com.

Black Lab Puppies Mono Print Fabric

This summer I learned how to make Andy Warhol Inspired Mono Prints on Creativebug.com. They are easy and so much fun!

I used two of my mono prints to make this Black Lab Puppies Mono Print fabric at Spoonflower.com.  It's available in an assortment of pastels, perfect for making items for a baby.

The colors are especially vivid printed on the minky fabric that Spoonflower offers.  It's so soft! I turned the design 90 degrees in both pink and aqua options, just so it can be used to make little blankets or other home dec projects.  A yard of the minky is 54 wide x 36 inches.

Printed on Spoonflower's minky fabric (Pink background)

The pair of lab puppties can be fussy cut into 5 inch wide x 4 inch high patches if you want to use it for a quilting project.

I'm really looking forward to sewing with this fabric!  Especially since the prints are from photos of one of my dogs!
 

Indigo Quilt: Part 3. Completed!

My Indigo Color quilt is done!  The South African Shweshwe fabrics featured in the quilt are made with indigo dyes. I added some Kona® cottons and one other dark blue fabric. 

Just as I did with the pincushion I made with these fabric, I flipped one of the pieces in this quilt to show a portion of the da Gama Three Cats (Trade Mark) logo which is printed on the back of this company's fabrics. The cats can be seen in the second from bottom row, the 3rd block from the left! 

Here's the back of the quilt, with my Labrador mix, Hazel, who came with me on the photo shoot!

Hazel with a view of the back of the Indigo Color Quilt

And a photo of the entire quilt. I love it! There is so much motion in the shweshwe fabrics! I designed the pattern I used for this quilt.

Indigo Color Quilt

If you interested in learning more about Shweshwe fabrics, click the link at the top of this post which will connect you to da Gama Textiles in South African which makes this fabric.  There is also information in my March 14, 2016 post.

The View from the Hammock

Happy Labor Day!  It's still not to late to enjoy a last little bit of Summer!

One of the best things I made this summer was a hammock!  I've always wanted one but never could justify the cost!  I was so excited when I found a hammock tutorial on the website of Modern Textiles, the quilt shop in Fargo, North Dakota, which I mentioned in a previous post.

The hammock is made using home dec weight fabrics.  The outer red fabric I used is canvas weight, decorated with Setters! I bought it to make slipcovers--it wasn't flexible enough for that, but is perfect for the hammock. The inner fabric is leftover from curtains I made.  This hammock would also be a great way to up-cycle draperies that you no longer use but that are still in good condition.

The hammock only requires straight seams and can be stitched up in an hour or two. Very easy!

I've hung it on two posts on my deck.  That's probably not a sturdy enough anchor if you expect kids to use it, but it works for me.   The tutorial has links with suggestions on how to hang a hammock which is great!

Here's Hazel next to my hammock.  She's never tried to use it, but Tipper has!  (An activity which I've discouraged)!

It's really comfy, especially if I take a throw pillow out when I play to read a book! You should make one!

Random Letter Quilt: 8 More Letters in my Half Square Triangle Font

Eight more letters of my Half Square Triangle (HST) Font are done!  I have 18 completed letters now.

This is so much fun I decided to do all 26 letters in the alphabet. That will make a 30 block quilt with 4 blocks of negative space that will be filled with blocks of the Uppercase fabric.

Click over to Janine Vangool's Uppercase Fabric page and see all the fun projects that were created to promote this line which was printed by Windham Fabrics. The Uppercase!! page has swatches so you can see the entire fabric line.

All the pieced letters of my HST font should be completed by my next post!  And I have a couple of other fun projects I can't wait to share!  

Happy September!

Random Letter Quilt: First 10 letters

I'm making progress on my "Random Letter Quilt" using Windham Fabrics' Uppercase fabric collection, designed by Janine Vangool, publisher/editor/designer of Uppercase magazine, for the body of the letters. 

I designed the blocks. I call it my Half Square Triangle font! Each block is a bit like assembling a jig saw puzzle:  challenging but great fun!

More to follow, eventually!