Woo hoo!  The March blocks were finished a week ago, and they are already back in Bronwyn‘s hands.  She asked for wonky stars of Kaffe Fassett fabrics that would sparkle in the night sky.  I had to practice first of course, and delved into my Kaffe stash to make some blocks for my practice sampler quilt.

Not bad for a first go, I think, although I should probably have reversed the fabrics so that the star was floating in clouds. The next one has stripes along some of the points, but would have benefitted from a more subdued choice of background fabric.

So on to the squares I made for Bronwyn! They are all different sizes. The first one is 12.5″ square. I adore the feature fabric and couldn’t bear to waste any of it so pieced the leftovers together with some of the solid to make the central shape.

This one is 6.5″ square.

As is this one. I attempted to add some piecing to the points but much of it was lost in the seam allowances.

The last is 8.5″ square. What a fantastic print!

And here they are together.

Bronwyn sent loads of Kaffe fabrics to choose from and it was extremely difficult for me to pop them all in the return envelope – I really do think that they are one of the most wonderful fabric ranges around! The saturation of colours is almost unequalled.  I have recently come across some superb Australian Aboriginal prints from M & S Textiles  that I think could be used in a similar way to Kaffe prints – lots of colour and pattern.  Although I’m still trying to figure out why they cost around A$24 per metre to buy here in Australia where they are manufactured yet cost around US$11 (or less) per yard to buy in the US….

You can see all the blocks that have been made for Around The Block over here.  There are so many fantastic blocks and the finished quilts are going to be just brilliant.