Civil War quilt blocks, batch 4

Finally, I'm caught up with the Civil War Quilt blog until Saturday morning! I feel like I'm getting better piecing these blocks and then I find a mistake or cut something the wrong size and I'm recutting and picking out again!

Block 15, Fort Sumter came together pretty easily.

Block 16, White House did not. When scrolling through the Flickr pictures for this block, someone mentioned that they had cut the strip part all in one piece instead of trying to match up a square and a triangle. It seemed like a good idea but this is what I learned. Cut just one piece to see if you have the right dimensions with a combined piece instead of all four. Lots of fussy cutting on this block.

Block 18, Union Square also has some fussy cutting from the fireworks fabric for the corners.

I found myself going out of my designated fat quarter pile for this block. I purchased a collection of fabric in 2004 as part of a Lewis & Clark commemoration while in Seattle. Most of that fabric became a quilt for my grandson born in 2004. There were 3 fat quarters that I had never touched that I delved into for this project.

Block 19, Missouri Star was my favorite block so far. I really liked the look of the flower in the middle of the block on the blog, thus the search for more fabric. I then decided that the small print fabric was perfect for the background. That's a punch of a much brighter blue and hopefully I can use more later.

Block 20, New England seemed easy until I switched some triangles around. Got to love the seam reaper! I decided to make it more patriotic since the blog post about this block and New England was so patriotic and red, white, and blue.

Block 25, Calico Puzzle was fun to make. I used the last of the 3 "found" fat quarters to fussy cut another flowered center.

This project has been so much fun. It's been nice to have something to look forward to doing inside now that we are consistently in the triple digits everyday.

I've decided that figuring out each block is better than Sudoku for keeping my brain cells alive!