givio

joe'smom, I would say your star points are hugely contrasted with your background. I consider the background the large triangle of the flying geese. If you plan your top to be scrappy, any colors are fine.

Nice blocks so far everyone! I hope to be sewing mine on Sunday.

joe'smom

givio, it was block one (last month's) I was going to do over; I completely forgot to think about value when choosing my fabrics.

sewbizgirl

Nice blocks, joe'smom... I think you are right about the star points. The block looks sharper if there is a good contrast between them and the background. Don't know if I figured that out for the first block but I did by the second one!

Duckling

I made my fabric selections finally and you will lots of color variations because I selected seasonal prints. Here is January. Hopefully tomorrow I will do February. I had to seam rip my first triangle because I sewed 1/4" on either side of the diagonal line rather than sewing the line. A bit too tired to see the allowance but got it done. It is square, I think the photo is off, well mostly

sewbizgirl

Cute block, duckling. It's going to be fun to see your seasonal prints every month. I really like your disappearing 4 patch quilt in your avatar, too! Pretty colors.

sewbizgirl

Finally got my third Feb. block done. Of the three groups I'm doing, I like these fabrics the least!

joe'smom

That's beautiful, sewbizgirl!

Duckling

SBG is this supposed to be your modern prints? Didnt you say you were doing 30's, Civil War and modern? I think you did a good job of 2 color families. I think the prints you chose really make the pattern stand out!

sewbizgirl

Weeeeelll, more modern than the civil war or the 30's. They were just random picks from my stash.

Thanks!

givio

I visited my son and DIL and the grandkids this weekend. A nice long visit and didn't get to the sewing yet. I suppose I'll work on the blocks later in the week now.

I like those prints, SBG. The block looks nice sewn up. I will like my CW blocks best of my 2 sets... I guess I'm ready for that style after working on the MM NYD mystery quilt fabrics.