I started these about 2008 or 2009. I think then because the idea is from One-Block Wonders Encore book by Maxine Rosenthal and Joy Pelzmann and that book was copy righted in 2008. I got the book when I first saw. I had made One-Block Wonder quilts before and I like to use fabrics with a large repeat as it give the most diverse blocks, so that means a lot of fabric as you need 6 repeats. Add to that using the same fabric in two color ways the fabric really adds up. While at the Long Beach show, we make a visit to M&L Discount Fabrics which is where I found these Robert Kaufman Hawaiian sunset fabrics in the pink and blue color way at about $4 per yard. I could not pass that up!
These quilts have been in the making for these many years, as I lose interest in them and put them away. I had the rows put together both quilts when I went to Palm Desert on a mini retreat with friend Bambi in Oct 2014 and I got one of the quilt tops sewn together. At the Walker Ranch retreat in March of 2015 I got the rows for the second quilt top sewn together. I asked the ladies then about boarders, but didn't really like any of the suggestion so back into the box it went.
At one point I thought it would be nice to have a pillow fold over at the top of each quilt and then I finally decided on the boarders. In August 2015 I pulled out the UFO and put the boarders on the blue version quilt top.
Sept 2015
Got the boarder done on the second color-way of these quilts:
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