Tangential Octagon Stars
I am in love!
Come see the first block I made using my Tangential star pattern, from Angled course:
I mean, wow! It came out so well! The colors are absolutely divine. I love Anna Maria Horner’s saturated, dramatic tones with the Kona Avocado background. Just delish, right?
The Tangential star block is made up of diamonds and several kinds of triangle pieces. It’s a generously-sized block that finishes 17” square, if made up with corner pieces as per the complete pattern. I have left off the corner pieces for now, so that the blocks are octagonal. It gives the star a more sparkly, twirly look, in my eyes.
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I am toying with the idea of arranging the octagonal blocks like so. This layout create square gaps on four sides of each star block. I could feature a fussy-cut larger scale print from Anna Maria’s Brave collection in those joining squares.
With this layout, the rows will have to be joined with y-seams, but I think that I am up to that. They are big blocks, so it would not be many y-seams after all.
I am happy that these large scale prints are working well with the Tangential block. Some of the block elements are nice for fussy cutting, and the oversized scale lets the bigger prints breathe.
Now, onwards - more blocks!
