Sew As Desired

 I have formulated an idea for these quilt blocks.  So I will call this block the start of phase 2 of my project.  Sort of a mystery that will continue to unfold as I go along.   It will all come together at the end. As you can see I made four patches with cats in the fabric as my choice of animal themed block.  

 I made two of the double four patch blocks.    Here is part 1 and part 2.

 At first I was reluctant to choose these orphan SBS blocks but now that I forced myself  to give it a go I think I am seeing hope for them.   I enjoyed round 1.    I looked through a lot of my scrap collection(s) and I am going to pick fabrics that match the colors in the SBS print fabric.  At first I though pastels would be best then I got ruthless!   I'm saying that all these fabrics are tired of being stashed away.   

 I have had these embroidered blocks for a long time and now I am going to incorporate them into this project.  I will place them in various places as I go along.  The SBS print will also be used.  It is all strips in various widths.  I will add other fabrics from my stash.  The embroidered Sue's are 4 inches tall.

 All finished up and put through the washer and dryer.  I'm happy to have put this center block to use.   Thank you for the fun and casual quilt along.  It has been interesting to see how each person's  "mystery" has  been solved.  

 Decided to go with my initial for a block since the kite block didn't seem to fit in.  But it would have been good corner blocks I suppose.  The blocks I am joining the Birds in the Air block to are 6 inches unfinished so I drew a paper pieced block because I couldn't do the math for that an unfinished 6 inch block.  I found a free pattern for 6.5" unfinished.  Oh well.  The paper one worked out ok.   I was running out of that shade of blue fabric but I pieced 2 pieces together so my 4 blocks would match.  Now I will work on figuring out the details of finishing it up.  Thank you to the bloggers that furnished pattern ideas. It was a fun adventure.