Blogger Girls BOM for February

I have been eagerly awaiting the next block for Monique Dillard's free block of the month, called the Blogger Girls BOM.  There seem to be many free projects lately, and while I don't have the time or desire to participate in them all, I do enjoy reading about them and doing what I can.  This is one project that I decided to participate in because I love the second block.  What do I mean about this?  Each month there is a block pattern.  If you just want to make a smaller quilt, you make one.  If you want a larger quilt, you make two, but in the second block, the idea is that you change the value placement or otherwise manipulate the fabric choices to make the same block look totally different.  I love that idea!  Let me share my pictures so you can better understand the process.

Here is the first block, using two fabrics and a background.

And here is the second block, made from the same pattern, but looking much different:

 

The center fabric here is my focus fabric and I knew that constructing this block would be tricky because the center square has to be made from 4 triangles and I was afraid the focus fabric, being so large-scaled and busy would look messy when peiced together from 4 different pieces.  So to try to alleviate that, I fussy cut four different motifs--one for each triangle.  Luckily, the eye seems drawn to them, more than the seams, so I'm fairly happy with it.

Here are both of them together:

And here they are with January's block (done twice as well.)

I think they are so much fun to make! 

Have a great day!
JoAnne