Olga those are beautiful. You did a great job on the layout of the second one - that was my first thought when I saw it on my email this morning.

Looking great. Amazing how one piece of fabric can produce so many dif patterns

Some fantastic blocks!

beautiful

Remember, mine is the 8 sided Octo. I don't have the magic squares placed yet. What do you think so far about my octo placement?

WOW!!! Those are wonderfull!!! And I love your placement!

They are great ...I am ready with mine to start sewing the rows together,,it will hopefully be close to done next week.

Julie they look fabulous. The octogans really give a more kaleidoscopic effect with this fabric. You placement is great, I love the blues concentrated in the middle and the orange at the base - great job! Now get those squares in there! :mrgreen: :lol: :D

Sadly it will probably be a couple more weeks before I can start placing the squares...lol. We are going on a mini vacation leaving Thursday and not getting back until next Tuesday. Will be busy this week packing up the camper. I'm getting a machine ready to pack in there too! I think I'm going to cut some assorted patriotic triangles and sew a few random half square triangles while relaxing :).

I have 2 left over octagons that I will place in the border of this somewhere. I really need to make the teal color POP, leaning more to the green side.

Thanks for the encouragement on this project. It is taking me a while to complete, but at least not 5 yrs like the first OBW!

Ok, I didn't feel like cutting anything new to take on my trip....so I decided to pin squares :). I moved a couple of the orange blocks up because I really didn't like the "row" effect. I love the opposite corner movement effect. I would like to move a couple more squares (big ones) but then it really screws with the placement of the little squares and I don't feel like messing around with them anymore... I ran out of pins and I am four triangles (outer corners) shy of having enough triangles! I'm probably going to do those corners with the next border fabric. I am taking these with me on my trip and sewing those corners on...well, if I have time that is. I think it is going to turn out a lot better than I imagined :)