my turn!!!!

eta: I'm about ready to give up on blogger with this font size thing. So for now, I'm leaving it! ;-)

Well, it's February!! Okay, maybe not. But close enough. February is my month for the Nittany Block Party bee and I can't even begin to describe how excited I am about the block I chose for this one!

Where do I begin? Well, this is actually the quilt that inspired it all. Aneela of comfortstitching came up with this one last summer. I immediately fell in love with it and knew I had to make one. But I didn't really know when or what colors or anything.

photo courtesy of comfortstitching

Until then I saw this....

photos courtesy of film in the fridge

Ashley of Film in the Fridge had this as the back of her nine-patch quilt. I love nine-patch quilts, but the back of this one won me over.

I LOVE the dark Kona coal and all the scrappy colors with the white border. Love.it.


So, this is what I came up with:


And again - I love it! The one thing I wish I maybe would have changed is to have a larger white border, but for every bit I make that larger, either the gray or colors get smaller. At some point I might re-work this block to make it a different size and play with that stuff, but for now, this works!

Technically what I've shown is only a half block, as the block (as the original tutorial is written) makes a 14"-ish block out of four 7.5" (or in my case, I squared to 7.25").

I'll be sharing more (and hopefully better pictures!) over on the Nittany Block Party blog in the next day or so for anyone who's interested in making something similar!