Block Studies Collective | Grid Work

This, the final prompt of this season of Block Studies Collective, proved to be a doozy. It's not that I wasn't familiar with the general technique. (take a quick peek here) It's that when I saw a particular sample of Tara's @tarafaughnan with varied colors of dots, I wanted to create something similar. Except I found it to be a kind of mind game. And I wasn't really happy with my first try.

So I tried again. 

Then I went and put the second piece up on the design wall, and guess what? The two absolutely 'fit.'

After sleeping on it, I still felt they were good together, so I started playing with what should go in the upper right corner. It took a while, but....

I finally had a finished top I was happy enough with to continue. I had planned on just speeding things along and finding a backing in stash, but nothing really suited me so I went ahead and pieced one from scraps.

For quilting, I used Aurifil 50wt 2612 [Arctic Sky] to do an imperfect(!) curved grid.

Then finished off with matched binding, with the finished piece measuring 25" x 38", which I'm pretty sure is my largest block studies piece. I've named this one "Mesh."

With that, and one more group zoom on March 31, this season of Block Studies Collective is done. I'm thinking of revisiting one month's focus, so I'll be back to share all six projects together after that. Meanwhile, I thoroughly enjoyed the series.