Ripples

This is the first block from the fourth Moda Frivol tin. I’m in love with the delicate prints in their Peter Rabbit/Jemima Puddleduck colors. But the block itself may be my very least favorite. It calls for thirty different flying geese sub-blocks. The geese had to measure at 2.5x5” finished, and I have no template that size. (I have flying geese templates in six different sizes, but 2.5x5” isn’t one of them.) Worse – far worse – is the fact that all the seams in this block must be pressed open. None of the clever tricks I use to make the points come out right work on this block. In fact, all the corners seem to be deliberately fighting my efforts to make them line up. This one block took me the better part of a week to accomplish, and it’s far from perfect. I need three more just like it to finish the top. Don’t hold your breath.