I know, I know, it’s way past July now.  I finished making Jan’s blocks on the weekend.  She is travelling further than Around The Block at the moment – around Australia in fact – so I knew that she wouldn’t be waiting on them.  Well, that was my excuse for being late.  Jan provided us with pre-cut borders in different widths and asked us to come up with whatever design we liked for the centres, with the finished blocks being 8.5 inches.  I jumped onto Quilter’s Cache and found some terrific designs.

This one is Geometry, which is paper pieced at 4 inches.

I modified the Four Patch Variation block to make a 5 inch centre.

When it came to the 6 inch centre, I was lazy and simply fussy cut one of the fabrics that Jan had sent (which was around 7 inches square – I think that Jan may have been hoping that I’d do just that!)

I felt that I’d let myself off a little bit too easily with that last block so made up another centre (6.5 inches unfinished) for Jan to add borders to later. It’s called Interlocked Squares.

I also made the August blocks and will share them later. I now need to get cracking on making a quilt for my niece’s wedding – it’s in October! This year! Two months away! Yikes! Where’s that rotary cutter?