Japan

This is the primary block in the Quilt Etc. free block-of-the-month for December, made exactly the way the directions indicate. It wasn’t remarkably difficult to assemble: just eight rectangles – six white and two brown – each with a covered corner triangle at one end. But the finished product seems to me to be weird and awkward; completely lacking in grace and balance. As soon as I got my block kit home, I tried looking up the pattern in my books and on the Internet. I never found it. The nearest match was https://mombowe.blogspot.com/2017/12/windy-city.html which I made and posted a little more than a week ago. I decided to give this block another chance this week, to see if my opinion of it would improve. It hasn’t, but you’re free to like it if you choose. I’ve learned (and keep on learning) that there are as many ways to see a thing as there are eyes looking at it.