SAHRR - What Was I Thinking?

Note to self:  Make more notes to Self!!

When I saw the prompt for Round 1 of the Stay at Home Round Robin, I was less than inspired.  I wanted to try something "out of the box," but my vertigo-head couldn't wrap itself around what it would take to accomplish my idea.  Then I saw Julie's (Quilts and Costumes) pretty blue spools and decided I'd just go with the obvious.

I could see that the block could be constructed as a 9-patch, but finishing at my desired 3 inches, that would be a lot of little pieces and seams.  So on Sunday I devised a plan to use 1-1/2" x 3-1/2" rectangles with flip triangles for the four HST corners and immediately set about cutting all the pieces.  I even cut the corners for one block so that I would be sure they were going in the correct direction.  Then it was time to leave for church.

That sermon must have been pretty good because by the time I got back home and had lunch I totally forgot what my plan was!

I reckoned that I had reversed the fabrics for the flip corners so I cut more.

But wait, how is this going to finish at 3"???  OK, stop laughing.  I cut the center section down to size and nothing matched up, not to mention I was back to almost a 9-P with little pieces.

And, yes, that's a wine splash in the corner.  Lots of little purple dots all over my Kona Snow 😒

I finally realized my original plan was to use the white rectangle with flip corners on the SIDES of the dark rectangle.

Success!  But by then it was Monday and Prompt 2 was out.  I came up with a new plan; stay tuned.