Little Batik Squares

I love those little batik squares that come in groups of frogs, suns, penguins, elephants and others. I have bought several and then thought, now what?

I always have a pile of crazy pieced blocks that I have made between other projects. Making crazy piecing is very calming to me, a therapy of sorts, and I have piles of different size "blocks" that are ready to be cut to size and used.

I like the idea of vertical columns in a quilt but had rarely used that format. After a bit of playing, this is what I made. I stitched vertical lines with heavy black thread in the striped fabric as part of the quilting.