I Got To Thinking . . .

. . . before I start posting about the new challenge, I really should post what I made from the last one . . .

I used my Lotta fabrics to make a table runner.
After the fact, I realize that some of these fabrics don't work so well cut up in tiny pieces. I like my idea, I just wish I'd done something different with these fabrics. I may try this on a larger scale some other time with different smaller-scale fabrics or even solids (in bigger pieces). I think it'll work much better that way.

But, what's done is done, and I've moved on.

Seein' as how the first rule of the new game says: "Using Only SOLIDS . . . " and I didn't have enough solids in my stash to even shake a stick at, I had to order some. They got here Saturday, so I stayed up late last night after getting home to make my first original Card Tricks block.I had to sit in the hospital with my sister for the last few days (and I still have some more babysitting to do while she recuperates) so I've had plenty of time to play with my sketchbook, and I came up with a big idea for my Card Tricks blocks, so as soon as I get time in my studio, I'm gonna keep on going with this. More later . . .

Second Block

This was more difficult than I imagined!

Maybe I'm over-thinking the challenge

or

maybe I've got a perceptual problem

related to this block!

Discovery

Yesterday I also got frustrated.

The few blue triangles I had cut out

kept falling off the wall as I moved them around.

And I didn't have enough of one color to make "cards"

and keep track of what I was trying to accomplish.

So I cut out 4 squares of paper for the 4 cards.

Then on each piece I made one slit half way down to the center.

I started at the middle of 1 side & stopped in the middle of the square.

This allowed me to fold under the hidden quarter for all the cards.

(It's easier for me to see the block as a "whole"

rather than a bunch of triangles.)

What I am working on above is distortion ...

the square cards are now rectangles.

Card Trick

This is my first card trick block ever.

(And now I understand Miki's original comment!)

As you can see I might work with only blues ...

that is still one of those "what if" questions.

Next the FUN begins!

card trick

Here's the card trick block.

And here it is with the outside squares flipped out.

Here it is using four colors.

And with the four inside squares flipped out.

I DID contemplate making this wonky....

but I didn't.

Instead......

I made some table mats for a bi-monthly meal

that I prepare for senior citizens.

I just added a 2 1/2" border to the blocks....

flannel on the back...a little quilting.....

Viola!

Ready for FALL!