Some of the ladies in my quilt club have difficulty in selecting colors, and thus fabrics, to use in a quilt. So I challenged them to pull an ad out of a magazine that appealed to them - not the product - but the combination of colors used in the ad. One of the members brought a stack of magazines for us to look through, and everyone enjoyed not only looking for their ad (as well as collecting recipes.)
Here is the picture I chose: (Not sure if it was the colors that appealed to me, or that the little girl reminds me of my granddaughter Lorelai.) I couldn't even tell you what the ad was advertising.
I went fabric shopping my stash and came up with what I thought was good. I found a block I wanted to try out on someone's facebook and she told me it was an Atkinson's pattern called Happy Holidays. Turns out the pattern was for a Christmas Tree Skirt, a good bit larger than I wanted to make. I drafted a pattern using three inch 60 degree triangles to make mine. Then I made the block with English Paper piecing. I would be curious to know if there is a name for this block. I did look in block base and could not find it there. My block finished off at 10" x 12" hexagon block. I used a facing finish rather than binding.
