Some Days are Just Creative

We had a great day, despite the darkness and the rain, in the workshop today. Both having made some blocks for the Quiltfest entries we have been working on, we laid out, added to, rearranged, sewed together, and consulted.
And drank lots of tea.  See the previous post for HH's first two, including the original quilt.. Now, these are entirely different again
HB working in a soft blue-green palette with pops of shocking pink

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And HH with a stark black-white-and-pink - not quite complete here


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We have both been messing about with the original 4 blocks, combining and extending the ideas..

Working on the same project at the same time (not something we are in habit of doing) has been very interesting and most instructive. It has really highlighted our different working methods - both equally viable:
HH's artistic approach saw her making half a dozen blocks of various dimensions and proportions, pinning them to the design wall in a pleasing arrangement and filling in the intervening space to make the quilt to the appropriate size.
HB works in a much more methodical way making the improv blocks in regular, modular sizes to fit into a pre-determined grid structure. The layout was then arranged (and rearranged) on a workbench and spaces filled with un-pieced blocks.
Hard to believe that these two very different quilts contain that same four blocks - plus a few of our own variations on these four.