When I sat down to write this post, I had no clue which block to pick. So I started surfing the Net, procrastinating. One of my favorite places to waste time is Wikipedia. Today the featured article was on William Tecumseh Sherman. Funny, I thought. Earlier today I was playing [...]
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Amazing how much color can change a design. This block is not complicated in the least. Squares, squares, and more squares. But by putting the block on point and playing around with the colors, you can get designs that don’t look like they share the same block base.
This is one of my favorite blocks right now. It’s fairly easy to piece, but looks far more difficult. This is an older block–one of my sources credits it to the Ladies’ Art Company, which first began to sell standardized block patterns around the turn of the 20th century. Which means the [...]