TYPES OF BLOCKS:
This is one of the most fun blocks of all to do! I've been wanting to make this block in a wonky style for some time now. I'm finally getting to do it and using the beginnings of my quilt-to-be as a teaching mechanism.
The goal or theme of this quilt is 'oddball pairings' of fabrics or 'opposites attract' as the goal in doing each block. For this demo, I've made high contrast blocks, low contrast blocks, some that are neither but are just what I call 'low level' blocks. The low level blocks are just there making a splash of color sometimes and that's it. Sometimes they are such low level that they don't provide much of anything other than a 'binding' factor or a 'cement' to the other blocks.
The first block we'll look at is the 'oddball couple' where fabrics paired are of unlikely combinations. This is the primary block of this quilt, after all, and the majority of the blocks are of this combination, i.e., a bold stripe paired with a dot, squares mixed with dots, florals and stars, etc.
Here are some more of those blocks: