Saturday, September 5, 2009

Bali pops - more

I've made 36 blocks from the strips. From each strip, I cut 2 each of the 3 sizes I needed for the logs. eg for the pink/purple logs, I cut 2 1/2 inch, 4 1/2 inch and 6 1/2 inch logs.

I chain-pieced each section of the log cabin blocks, taking the next log from the pile, without specifically choosing the log, excepting if the same colour would end up next to each other. I wanted a random look.

As the tones are very low contrast, I wanted a layout that would show the colour differences between the pink/purples and the blue/greens. These are the three layouts that I ended up deciding between: