I'm a Blockhead... no doubt about it

Have any of you participated in the Moda Blockheads quilt-along from last year?  They did a weekly block which wrapped up last year.  I printed out all the patterns but only got half a dozen done...and I may change my colors after all.  It's a great quilt and I do want to get to it.

Then they decided to do another round, starting this week, Blockheads II.  Well, of course I had to jump along.  Especially since I couldn't work on my triangle gatherings ( of which I did do all 98 blocks!) and I was procrastinating waiting to work on the hourglass quilt.

I can't believe how much time I spent playing with the different colors!  Since I'm at the cabin, my choice of colors was limited (very limited stash here, ahem) so I decided to go with red/blue/gold.  I clearly had too much time. VBG  Not only that but I pinned just about every seam, which is something I NEVER do!

This is the finished product.  It's amazing how just a little change in fabric can change the look! You may not notice but I did use a few of the triangle gatherings sashings that I obviously couldn't work into my not-yet-finished quilt.



Here are a couple other iterations!




I hope you agree on the one I finally stayed with.  There were others but I deleted the pictures right away... great tool being able to use my camera phone to see how one layout looks compared to another one!  And then POOF!  Delete!!

Back to the hourglass... I'm trying to think what use I can make with the extra 2" stripes of purple that I cut for the project.  I'm sure I cut too many!  Any suggestions?  Rail fence?  Strings? Log cabin?   Of course I need to first finish the quilt, right??!!




I'm definitely going to have to move it onto the floor because the design wall isn't large enough to put all the blocks on. VBG  It's coming along...