Gravity block of the Month

April 2015 --

My sister gave mom for Christmas the Gravity block of the Month by Jaybird Quilts.  She is also doing the BOM.  The monthly kits started in February but Mom waited until tax season was over and she came to the river to start the blocks.  The kits are 6 pieces of 10x10 solids in different tones of a color, and each month has 2 colors. 

May 2015: After completing a couple of months it seems that there is enough scrap material to make an addition diamond of each color.  So I also started one.  Month 1 the scraps were enough to make my complete blocks.

June 2015:  I didn't make month 2 with the same colors because month 3 did not have enough left over fabric to make my blocks.  I could use month 2 scraps for month 3 if I had just a bit more of each ... so I asked my sister for her scraps.  She sent her scraps for months 1-4.  I made month 2 block with scrap of month 3 from mom scraps and had to use one color scrap from my sister due to a error in cutting.  I had to piece the large triangles as none of the scraps were large enough. 

June 2015:  I made month 3 block with month 2 scraps.  Again I had to piece the large hexagons as none of the scraps were large enough but you can't tell.  I'm not too happy with the yellow block as the large hex and surrounding triangles are almost the exact same shade.  Up close you can see the difference but the photo shows how close.  I didn't like it when I did a different placement (before sewing together) up close but maybe I will unsew and reassemble when I put the block together if I still don't like it.

June 2015:  Month 4 was the same colors but I had to piece together the scraps of a specific color to make large enough using a scraps from my sister.  The seam line are a bit off but from a distance and in this photo you can't tell. I am really enjoying the challenge of making the scraps work for each of the blocks. 

August 2015:  Month 5 was the same colors and the scraps were enough to get all the shapes just not in the specific colors but still looks good.

Month 6 was same colors with plenty of scraps but not necessarily the specific colors.

Dec 12, 2015

Got Month 7 & 9 completed.  Had to make month 9 with the scraps from month 8.

Dec 19th
Month 8th completed.  Next step the gray sections.

Feb 5, 2016
Completed many of the gray sections but have run out of the gray "steel" (C).  I searched many of the local stores but could not locate...yet.

Feb 12, 2016
Finally found "steel" at Mulqueen's in Phoenix!!

Feb 15, 2016

Finish all the gray section

March 16, 2016
Quilt top done!!