I finished my 6th Baltimore Bliss blocks that I got from the Fat Cat Pattern site. That is all of them that I am making for this child size quilt. I really had fun with these blocks they were fairly simple to make and I needed that after all the difficult work on some of the quilts that I have made this past couple years. There are six more blocks in this series of BOM blocks. I will continue to collect them and make another child size quilt from the next set and use a different color scheme for it.
The 6th block in this series. I had only used this blueish (I'm not sure if that is a word but it is for me) color fabric in one block so I had to make sure to use it in this one so it would all balance out right. I redesigned this block. I didn't care for the flowers as it was designed - it would have had two colors layered on each petal and nothing in the center of them, I preferred to do them this way. Also the leafs next to the flowers were a bit bigger and I thought they took up too much room so I made them smaller.
So now I need to decide what the lay out will be - set on point like this? Not with the carpet of course 
but with more of the same background fabric and then a border around the outside. It would need a bit of quilting on the center two blocks and then on the half square triangles - maybe a feather wreath in the plain blocks and half the wreath on the triangles. In other words a lot of quilting. Of course I am leaning more towards this layout as it is more work
Or set like this with sashing and borders around the whole thing. This lay out would be the easier of the two as far as quilting it would go although on the border and sashing I would probably put a braid like design on it which would be a bit of quilting. Any fabric used in these blocks is down to very little left over so whatever the sashing would be might not be from these colors - one of the reasons I am leaning towards the set on point version - I have plenty of the background fabric as I got quite a few yards of it - it is such an easy color to work with so I got a bit of it.
I really like the two blocks in the middle the best for some reason. Not sure why. I should have used the light green fabric a little more but I ran out as I almost did with the plaid. The hazards of using up scraps! All of the colors except the background fabric was pulled from my scraps. I am really trying to be good and use a lot of them up.
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