40 Shades of Grey BOM Clamshell Garden

February's blocks are called Clam Shell Garden

These are filler blocks and are all hand appliqued

Next month we had some more filler and piece the blocks together

40 Shades of Grey BOM, month 7

These cute blocks are called Beach Huts. Quick and easy to assemble

The instructions in the booklet did not quite match walls to roofs. One of the ladies in the group redid the instructions, with just a simple change of how to cut the walls and add the door. The walls and roofs fit perfectly. Remake is above and original is below.

I have decided to make my alternate quilt blocks first, so I can work out the kinks before doing the one from the kit.

Our next blocks are called "Catherine Wheels" and I am wondering if anyone knows the origin. we have googled and find no information. They are paper pieced and sort of a 3-D look.

ANN

November block is called "Spinning Geese"

These blocks are paper piecing

" 40 Shades of Grey "

" 40 Shades of Yellow"

Ann: 40 Shades of Grey

 September Flower Basket Block and Half-square triangle filler blocks

October Hexagon Flowers blocks

I am loving this quilt and it's challenges. I decided to make a second quilt using scraps and stash.

Yellow is my "40 Shades"

I am thinking of doing this one as a "Quilt as you Go"

Ann: 40 Shades of Grey month 3

The top block is a regular log cabin block with flowers. 

The bottom block is called "Court House Steps"

Ann: 40 Shades of Grey BOM

I am doing a new BOM called 40 Shades of Grey

It comes in a kit every month, So far I have 2 months.

Not sure I will do it this way again. I would rather just have all the material and cut it myself.

These four blocks are called Criss-Cross Blocks

They are 11" blocks. Working with diagonal blocks to the square center takes a bit of coordination, making sure each set is turned the correct direction. Two of the white fabrics have writing on them, so trying to decide if they should be directional or random was a challenge. 

This block is called Pineapple. It is 17" and was a different challenge. I like the way it turned out. 

And this block is called Lightening. It is 19" square and will be the center block  of the quilt.

I misread the cutting instructions and cut one of the sets of squares at 3 1/8 instead of 3 7/8, so I had to do some fussy matching. I think it turned out okay though. This is one reason I would like to have the whole piece of fabric instead of small pieces. I could not just cut new block.

Next month will be Log Cabin variations, so I will have to pay close attention to my cutting instructions.