Work has been a nightmare, plus I've been busy coping with the stomach flu, holiday shopping, nursing my four-year-old through the stomach flu, rearranging my schedule around my husband's new job, and who knows what else. I just haven't had the time or energy to put a post together. But I have been sewing in what little free time I have had.
There are more hourglass blocks:
And somewhere along the way, my scrap envelope started to overflow:
So, inspired by Lucy, I took some of those scraps and turned them into four-patches:
Then I took the four-patches, and turned them into nine-patches:
Some of my scraps were large enough that there were leftovers after making the four-patches. So I've decided to go on a crusade. I love one-patch quilts - tiny squares, hexagons, tumblers, diamonds, all of them. But I feel like the humble pentagon is being ignored. Every once in a while you see a quilt made up of the pentagons that are one-third of a hexagon, or even more rarely the pentagons that are shaped like a house or the Cairo pentagon. But there are in fact FOURTEEN different types of pentagons that it is possible to make a one-patch quilt with. So I took my extra scraps and cut out some James (aka Type 10) pentagons from them. See how they tile the plane:
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