making gray frames......

Last fall, 12 of us made 2 blocks for an exchange. They all have the same gray background and a solid.

We exchanged them in December.

January was spent setting these.

I had 7 strips of gray fabric. Each was 2 1/2 by the width of fabric. I found this frame in the book

Setting Solutions by Sharyn Craig

In the book it is for a finished 6 inch block. I had to do some math...

One strip made one frame with a little left over.

Each block would have its own gray frame and I went on a gray fabric shopping spree,

buying some here and there.

There will be another gray quilt in my future, I now have a ton of gray!

At first I was going to do a 4x6 layout. I changed my mind and made one more block so it could be  5x5. The background is different WOW fabrics. Some repeat, some don't. The block finishes at 14 1/2. They haven't been sewn together yet.

I started sewing Tula Pink blocks from the book 100 Modern quilt blocks.

They are pretty easy to make.

They are made with cherrywood fabrics. I'm pretty much following the colors from the book. If the block has a big chunk of print fabric, I am inserting these shoo fly blocks instead.

I am not in love yet, But I am thinking that by the end, as a group, they will all look awesome!

I snapped this the other day at school. I love all these circles! It would be a cool quilt.