Garden Charm, Revisited

 

I made this block in Civil War prints in late March of this year. The construction was fairly simple, and allowed for several swirl-pressed points to help the whole block lay flat. But the mathematics behind the block mystified me. At first glance, it almost looks like a nine-patch block; one that’s drawn on the same kind of grid as a tic-tac-toe game. But it isn’t. It’s a 10” (finished) Instead, I pulled it completely apart and tried again, this time with a white tone-on-tone background, so it will match its siblings. I still don’t understand this block. But I think I’m beginning to like it.