Design Wall Monday

In 2013 I participated in the Virtual Quilting Bee (http://www.diaryofaquilter.com/p/the-virtual-quilting-bee.html); sixteen quilt bloggers designed the blocks. I decided to join so that I could use my solid fabrics, playing with color combinations that were unusual to me. Here are my finished blocks.

 

 

It took a long time to decide what to do with them. I first sashed some with gray, but that was very dull. I finally decided to go to extremes--to keep up with the unusual theme-- and this week I surrounded each block with some polka dot stripes!

 

So far so good great! I am loving how the black and white make the colors pop even better than before! Next up will be sashing. I have the fabric picked for that as well; I just hope it adds and does not detract.

And on the Christmas Stars front, I was able to make another nine blocks this week!

 

I am linking up with http://www.patchworktimes.com/2015/01/12/design-wall-january-12-2015/, where many other quilters are linking up their design walls as well!