Crossroads QAL: Intersection Block

I've been playing catch-up again with these blocks, but none the less, enjoyed the roller coaster process that is patchwork...Sometimes when I'm in the middle of it all, getting bamboozled by all the tiny pieces, I ask myself, why am I doing this? But when it's finished, I'm pleased I've stuck at it, and proud of what I've made.And I have learnt so much while doing this quilt, and this will be the first large pieced quilt that I've ever done! I've just been making this up as I go along, with a pastel, romantic colour palette in mind, and have managed to so far get most of the fabrics from my stash.Some new introductions to my stash were block made from Lecien's Flower Sugar Fall 2015. I only bought a charm pack of this, and I couldn't quite get all the pieces cut from the 5" squares, so I totally cheated and joined some together for one of the segments...can you tell? Well yes, you can see it if you look really hard, but I was pleased with how I made it work!

This block has foxy face fussy cut for the centre, and while I'm not sold on this colour combination, it does tie in with the rest of the colour scheme of the quilt. The foxy print is one from Spotlight, as is the small mint and white spot, and the floral is another new one from Clothworks called Cats in the Garden. I'll probably reserve judgement on this one until I can lay out the whole quilt together.

Slightly off on a fussy cutting tangent, but a couple of weeks ago my sons bought a new toy...a 3D printer. This was the first time I'd ever seen such a thing, and even though this is not an expensive one, it can print virtually anything you can dream up and is so amazing to watch! This pencil holder is printed guys!!

So of course, now I can see fussy cutting templates in my future, printed of course! You can buy transparent plastic for it, and my boys say they'll print anything I want...for a fee!I've saved my favourite block of these three for last, as I just love Little Red in the centre, peeking out from behind the tree...It goes so well with just a hint of Sevenberry floral, and a tiny Yuwa floral