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This month’s EQ Spotlight Block is Two Little Flowers 2. If you’ve followed me at all, you’ll probably know that this is not at all my style of block. So this seemed like it was going to be quite the challenge! Since I had such good luck with the Kaleidoscope function the last couple of months, I thought I’d see what it could do with an appliqué block like this.

Things were not looking promising until I got to the very bottom and found a section of the block that included only the stems:

Now that ...

This month’s featured block is “Flower Weave.” The easiest way to find this block is by going into your block library, then selecting “Search by Notecard” at the bottom of the window and typing in “Flower Weave.”

Here’s the block in a simple quilt.

Anyone who was in my workshops or lectures at QuiltCon last week will know that this design definitely doesn’t have enough negative space for me! Time to remove stuff.

Now there’s negative space, rule of thirds, and visual motion!

Last month, though, I had so much fun with the Serendipity Kaleidoscope function ...