Shoo Fly Quilt Block Remix! - Kate Colleran Designs

Hi friends!

Today as part of our Exploring the Basics series, Tammy and I are sharing about our recent block challenge: to remix and reimagine the Shoo Fly quilt block!

The Shoo Fly Quilt Block

The Shoo Fly quilt block is a simple 9 patch block made up of 5 squares and 4 HST units (half square triangle units).

For this block remix, I really wanted to make the HST units extend and maybe even overlap….

The Remix- fabric

I knew I wanted to use fabrics from my new fabric line Blooming.

I choose to keep to a fairly tight color palette. The original Shoo Fly block had only 2 colors and mine has 5. More colors but still not too crazy! And really, it is more like 4 since both the dots and the stripe have a white background. They both feel like the light in the block but, by having the 2 different prints, it gives a little more interest without being too much!

The Remixed Shoo Fly Quilt Block

The center of the block kind of looks like it could be my remix! I added smaller HST units into the corner HST units.

But… I kept going!

I ended up having lots to HSTs to make.

And trim.

And here is where I ended up for the block.

This is the EQ version.

This is the block in the quilt!

The Quilt

For the quilt, I decided to set the blocks on point. Once I did that, I really debated adding more to the side triangles but in the end I decided to keep it simple.