Sage Bud---Coordinating the Blocks

Joanne's Sage Bud

I've been collecting photos of your Sagebud block (#9 in Westering Women)

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JJan added more seams to avoid Y-seams.

getting the same block if not the same look.

I found a variety of looks.

When I Photoshopped them altogether it wasn't the most coordinated quilt. So I tried some design tricks to get a calmer look.

One way to pull things together is to alternate a simple block

with the same proportions. Here I did a digital sketch

of a nine patch constructed like the Sagebud....

Creating a coordinated quilt out

of some of your coordinated blocks.

Another design trick is to do a counterchange shading

with one block light on dark and the alternated block dark on light.

To do that I Photoshopped Jeanne's block

by "inverting" it and fooling with the color.

The dark border also pulls things together.

I added a digital border of "Patterson Park" from

my Baltimore Blues line (it's not all blue).

Not really to scale but you get the idea.