Two and Three

Boardwalk Block Two was a delight to make. Truly. The fan blades that appear as lavender are actually pale, pale pink.

In fact, I'm loving picking out the fabrics to form the various elements for the blocks. I have tentative selections for the remaining twenty-seven!

They are all stacked up with the shoulders, lattice, inner wedges, and center square all cut but not yet marked.

The fan elements are neither cut nor marked, and there is a bit of uncertainty about the fabrics for a couple of them.

I like Block Three a whole lot; Himself, not so much. It was more painstaking to assemble and it still needs more pressing. I attribute the difficulty to variation in fabric weight, i.e., those wonderful pirate cats are a Kokka fabric that they call "Oxford" and that may be but it feels heavier than shirt Oxford, almost like a light-weight canvas. But I had to use it! And the brown lattice is a Liberty lawn. The rest of it is all regular quilting cotton. And these diverse species of fabric don't really get along all that well.

I don't anticipate further difficulty of this nature; the cats are the only Kokka Oxford. I think.