I had 52 blocks when I started playing yesterday afternoon. I used 48 of the blocks and made a variation of the first layout I showed yesterday. I staggered the rows of the Sunshine and Shadow blocks by 1/2 row instead of the full row I showed yesterday. I think the name stays the same though, "Straight Furrows Interrupted". I don't think you will find this layout in any book. I just made it up as I went. Anonymous asked a couple days ago why I only used half of each strip. It is because I didn't want the same fabric in more than 6 blocks. I used 175 different fabrics and only used the full strip of a couple of the lightest ones. It ended up 43" x 57". I won't be putting a border on it and I think the binding will be multicolor using strips of a lot of my favorite fabrics that are in it.
Here are 3 of the leftover blocks. They just didn't have the right flavor to fit in. You can see here that the light center makes the largest half of the block light so that is one of the reasons this quilt is so light and almost delicate looking. It really gave me the look of spring flowers that I was after.
Last night I took a bunch of the leftover strips and just pieced them randomly, in the order they were in the pile, not placing lights and darks in any particular spot. They are just blocks at this point, not sewn together. I might play with some sashing since they aren't traditional log cabins.
Here are the last blossoms of the season on my amaryllis. The flower stem was 29" tall and very sturdy. 
Now I must get back to sewing purple arcs in the other quilt on a design wall. I need these new quilts for a program I will be giving at our local quilt guild meeting in April. I haven't done a program in about 8 years. The program is based on all of the different looks you get with one quilt pattern done in different styles of fabrics. I have 30 quilts at this point to show in 10 different quilt patterns.
Here are 3 of the leftover blocks. They just didn't have the right flavor to fit in. You can see here that the light center makes the largest half of the block light so that is one of the reasons this quilt is so light and almost delicate looking. It really gave me the look of spring flowers that I was after.Last night I took a bunch of the leftover strips and just pieced them randomly, in the order they were in the pile, not placing lights and darks in any particular spot. They are just blocks at this point, not sewn together. I might play with some sashing since they aren't traditional log cabins.Here are the last blossoms of the season on my amaryllis. The flower stem was 29" tall and very sturdy. Now I must get back to sewing purple arcs in the other quilt on a design wall. I need these new quilts for a program I will be giving at our local quilt guild meeting in April. I haven't done a program in about 8 years. The program is based on all of the different looks you get with one quilt pattern done in different styles of fabrics. I have 30 quilts at this point to show in 10 different quilt patterns.