Squirrel!

We’ve had lots of traffic to the back yard bird feeders of late, including a very hungry little chipmunk (a.k.a. ‘J. Edgar Hoover’) and a couple of black squirrels. Maybe that’s the reason that I seem to have gone completely ‘squirrel’ this week. Despite having a list as long as my arm of quilts and toppers that I want to make, I headed off on a totally unforeseen tangent.

It’s called Country Cousin and is from a book that I inherited from mom called Scrap Quilts by Judy Martin (1985). Goes to show you how timeless this craft is.

This is the layout in the book. Hmmmm. It's okay, but nothing that I would normally stop at.

But with a flick of the wrist you can make it look like this. I saw this version on a blog recently (I have to do a better job of tracking where I get my inspiration) where all of the large light and dark triangles butted up against each other, creating a diagonal weave, and the mix of triangles was even scrappier. I needed to try it. 

I tried going back to my wish list several times to see if I could be talked out of it, but apparently not. Ah well, lots of blue and white HSTs in my near future, I guess....M