Not Really Wonky After All

I put these Log Cabin blocks together several years ago as a way of using up the Sea Glass scraps, not really concerned about whether or not the yellow blocks would be centered, and actually hoping that they wouldn't be. I was aiming for wonky, a bit of a boho feel.

Turns out I don't do wonky all that well as three of the four centre blocks were almost dead centre, with one outlier (see upper left).

For a while I thought that I might be able to get away with it but the longer I looked at it (as I snacked on butterscotch pie...) the more that fourth block just looked like a mistake. Nothing to do but fix it. So, I ripped that block out, narrowed the outside grey strip and added a wide blue strip. Now they all look like they might have something in common.





Seemingly on a roll, I prepped it for quilting. I like to use up batting trimmings for my toppers and joined two pieces with a zigzag stitch.

The first half went beautifully, just doing randomly spaced lines of quilting, but when I moved to the second half I was several rows into it before I realized that I had stitched a lovely pleat into the backing. ARRRGH! More ripping.







Patience ruled the day and it is now finally quilted and bound, and actually quite pretty.

I like the way that the binding print moves in and out of the two shades of blue - sort of helps with that wonky thing...

The backing is from the same print as the binding. It's an Art Gallery fabric and was soooo lovely to work with.

So, four years later these blocks are now a very slightly wonky table topper (that didn't take very long, did it???); I think this one will be for the Holly Bazaar....M