This is the alternate block I've been making for the Laurel Ridge BOM from The Quilt Show. The actual block in the quilt is an applique block. Since the blocks are only 5" finished, I didn't feel like attempting to applique 10 different pieces onto that small square. Barbara Black, who blogs at My Joyful Journey, is helping us through this project. She came up with a few alternate blocks for those of us who didn't want to applique. This block is one that she suggested. She made her version on Electric Quilt. She didn't give concrete directions so I went to Electric Quilt and made my own version! I haven't used Electric Quilt in ages but this was easy to figure out. I liked this block the best because the applique version looked like a circle and thought this had the same overall look.
I only need to make 12 blocks. They'll be sewn in groups of 3 similar to this photo. Barbara couldn't tell us if we'd have enough fabric in the kit to make these blocks so I went out and bought a few matching fabrics. The gold fabric would have been the background of the applique blocks so I felt I was safe to use it. The purple was also part of the kit. There wasn't very much of it so I think it was only supposed to be used for the applique. I bought the background as well as the 2 other colors and cornerstones. I've already made 6 so I only have 6 left. I heard we're making over 40 half square triangles next month. That doesn't sound too bad!
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