Eagle Eyes

 To Cherie who pointed out that the "new" blue block was the same as the original one...

OOPS! I uploaded the wrong photo.

The Yellow block was tricky. I didn't want to make a bright yellow block, and I really had to search my stash and scrap bins to find enough "pale" yellows to make this work. 

Hey, whatever works!

I figured I could rely on the wrong side of some fabrics if I really couldn't figure it out, but I did not have to do that.

Black Scrap Triangles

 

I thought you'd enjoy seeing some of the scrappy black triangles I made from the slabs. As you can see I sew my scraps together, mixing prints I think look good together. Then I cut them up into shapes.

They are sewn together more or less randomly. I do not do "pure random." I put things together that look good. Pure random can look really ugly and I don't do ugly.

The gray cat above. Think he's arbitrarily cut? Um, no. Neither is the lady in the first photo.

And the rose in the second triangle from the left, above. Think that is placed by accident? Um, no. When you get a lovely shape like that, you USE IT!

By and large, the colors or shapes relate somehow. I don't get all worked up about it. This IS a scrappy quilt, but wherever I could see a little magic happening, I nudged it along.

These pieces aren't sewn together yet. I'll be working on that in the days to come.

If you want to make a quilt like this you can get my tutorial here, at my Etsy shop.