Bloom Seven and Eight

Another Boom instalment! Again I have made two blocks this fortnight.

I've refined my technique for these curved shapes:

In her introductory video Lori Holt said she doesn't do any trimming of her seam allowances on these shapes. I ignored that advice for the points; I've been trimming away a lot of fabric from the points right from the start (as seen in the green shapes on the left of this picture). Until now I have left the curves intact, but I wasn't happy with how the curves looked without any clipping. A bit bumpy, a bit lumpy. So this week I dug out my pinking shears, which I have not used in quite some time, and pinked all the curved areas. I was much happier with the results I achieved with this technique.

Here's block seven

and block eight

before they had their sashing added.

And here they are, with their sashing, completing the second row of the quilt:

Last time a couple of people commented on the sashing. I should have mentioned that this was not my own original idea. I googled for sashing ideas, and found a few at Alida Tweloq Designs. Alida published a few interesting sashing ideas (which she called "Smashing Sashing") for a quilt-along she was running in 2017, and this is one of them: Gemstones Sashing. I've used her idea, but rather than doing all the sashing in the same fabrics or in random colours as she suggests, mine will create a rainbow effect across the quilt.

Linked to Cheryll's Bloomers Party #5. Check out the progress!