After looking through my pile of Kaffe yarn dyed woven stripes I decided that 2 of my favorites were the ones to add. I saw this stripe in the Rowan book from 2000 which shows Kaffe's earliest fabrics. I knew they were the older fabrics because they are woven with a rougher thread. The bottom one is more red-purple than it looks here. I then chose the 3 strips that would go with each of the stripes.
Once the blocks were sewn it was design wall time. In this first layout 4 blocks make an O shape. There are 12 large blocks made of 4 blocks for this design.
Then I moved the vertical row on the right to the left side to make all X blocks and I like this much better. There are 2 blocks alike now at the lower left with the row from the right moved over there so I need to move one.
And then I came up with another idea. Since every block has all bias edges and these fabrics are very soft maybe I should sew 4 block sections and use some of the shot cotton solids for sashing and a border. The design wall is showing white between blocks but the shot cottons would be intense colors like the rest of these fabrics. The straight of grain strips would help control the stretch of the bias in 20" lengths instead of 60" and 80" seams.
