I really like black fabric, so I had a lot of small pieces ready for this project. Black doesn't work very well on its own though, so I threw in some tiny strips of bright colours to make it more interesting. I am trying a new improvisational piecing technique for each block, and the one I chose this time was inspired by the bright colour strips.
First I attached small strips at random to the pieces of black fabric I was using. Next, I sewed all of the similar sized pieces together, cutting up the big ones to fit where needed.
First I attached small strips at random to the pieces of black fabric I was using. Next, I sewed all of the similar sized pieces together, cutting up the big ones to fit where needed.
I kept sewing the pieces together by size until I got chunks that were mostly square shaped, adding little bits of extra black or colour where needed.
I matched two of the squares together and turned the third one into a long rectangle that would fit across the top. Here is everything all sewn together:
All that was left to do now was trim this weird shape down to a proper rectangle and add a border to match the previous blocks. This is the final block. It ended up having a bit of a 60's mod look. I like it.