“Abstractions” is the title of the THIRD month of Tara Faughnan’s Blocks 2 online course. It involves squares and rectangles.
Here’s the palette I pulled–and I did order a few of Tara’s colors to fill in what I was missing in my stash. I added–as suggested–the warmer/softer black Kona “Pepper” and the neutral Kona “Putty” as suggested by Tara. I’ve long been a fan of “Pepper” and had some here, but “Putty” was new to me, and I wouldn’t have chosen it on my own I don’t think. But it is PERFECT, lurking there among the neutrals one could choose.
The dark green, the teals, the aqua pop, combined with the strong blues, the oranges and golds, and the pinks/corals are just singing together. The golds are Kona “Curry” and “Canary.”
Here are my first three blocks:
I’ll put these blocks on stretched canvas and am waiting on the 14-inch square ones to come in the mail for the top two blocks. I couldn’t find this size locally–due to Christmas shopping I think.
I have another block in process–and will likely make a few more before stopping. I’ve sewed the first row of the THIRD quilt in my half-rectangle triangle quilt series, and it came out really well. So, more work there. Meanwhile, “Crosses” is just sitting on the longarm, ready to go. But right now I’m obsessed with “Abstractions” and with the third quilt in my series.
Everything I start gets done eventually, LOL. Except, I will confess, the “Glitter” blocks I tried to do–and for which I even got the templates–but could not, for the life of me, get to behave. I rarely give up on something quilty, but I put the glitter blocks in a plastic bag–with the templates–and put them on the give-away table. Hopefully someone will find them less fiddly and time consuming than I did.
Joy comes in all sorts of ways, doesn’t it? And it can include letting go of something that isn’t working for you.
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