Mandala's Reverse Starts Coming Together

Kaleidoscope Strips Layout

Last night I started squaring my rows of Kaleidoscope blocks up by adding the smaller triangles at the top and bottom.  Boy was I glad I hadn't thrown my scraps out!  All those end bits that I cut off to make the black equilateral triangles really came in handy.

Kaleidoscope Blocks Stripping together

I ran into a little bit of a problem working on my hexagon Kaleidoscope Blocks yesterday.  The problem was simple.  My mind told me I was making octagons, when really six sides makes a hexagon.  So I did some online digging and found the answer to my issue on a blog called Prosperity Stuff Quilts.  You see, it seems that some quilters who venture into Kaleidoscopes Blocks make many, many, quilts using this technique and have more than one for a newbie like me to drool glance over.   

About half of my Kaleidoscope Blocks

First I laid out my blocks as you can see above.  Each row represents two rows as I have them stacked as "sort of match" pairs.  We're headed for 6 rows total. 

First Strip of Blocks Together

DD said "wow" under her breath when she saw my first strip.  I took it as a wonderful heartfelt compliment, especially when she wanted her picture taken with it.

Second Row!

I couldn't stop, the blocks might get out of order you know, thereby I just had to finish up the second strip before she went to bed.  Can you see why I say these are "sort of matched" rows?

Sneak Peak Kaleidoscope Blocks

Kaleidoscope Quilt Block Layouts

I've cut all of my pieces and I'm now ready to start sewing them together.  What do you think of these first few blocks? I always find taking a step back and looking at quilt layout options through the camera lens to be a big help and today is no exception.  

Cutting Time

Ready to Cut?

I'm getting ready to cut my Opalescence fabric to make Kaleidoscope blocks for my Mandala's quilt back, I'm a little nervous!  Ever done one of these before?

This Week's Dog Dresses

This week I must have had my head screwed on backwards.  I created a new dog dress pattern and worked on another new pattern that I'm still trying to work the kinks out of from last week.  The good news is that the dresses are beautiful.   So I'm going to tack these up as well worth the effort.