Michael Miller Monday: Marbelous Marbles

What's up today with Michael Miller's Marble Collection? Let me tell you - a 15" Home Circle Block. It's from my Quilter's Block a Day Calendar from Martingale.

First let's see the "marbelous" Home Circle Blocks. (Thanks to Kathleen K. of New York who used that term last week to describe these fabrics!)

5 Home Circle Blocks (15")

Can we see how you got there? Sure. That's the purpose of this post!

Bundle of Marble fat quarters sent to me from Michael Miller

I was drawn to all the bright colors, so I selected from these:

All the bright colors

Then I started chopping (after I ironed the wrinkles out, of course)

First set of 8 colors. Yummy!

I cut four  squares from five different fabrics (I added another later). I cut five smaller squares from a second set of five fabrics. I started with making four Home Circle blocks, but quickly changed my mind (I'm allowed to do that!) when I saw how boring my assembly would be. More on that later.

Two sizes of squares

I cut some triangles from a plain white. Now it's time to sew!

Sew two triangles to opposing sides of a larger square

 Now for the other two sides:

This is where they will go

And stitched. I trimmed off those annoying bits of triangles that stick out.

Let's see how far I got with my squares. I chose to use two Marble colors for each block.

Home Circle parts

On another block, I made a mistake (yes, I did!) Have to be careful which side you pin and sew, right?

Pinned and stitched to the wrong side

Then when it was sewn together, I had to yawn.

Two colors and white wasn't enough color for me

I auditioned a 3rd color. Yes, that's it!

Auditioned a 3rd color

Time to rip (yes, I did!)

Took out that center square

Now, this is much better! And I made a total of 5 blocks using 10 of the Marble fabrics. I have an assembly in mind, but I will have to wait until later in the week. What do you think of my blocks? Here's where I hope to go.

Five blocks that will need some additional fabric - I have ideas!

Home Circle is part of my Quilter's Block a Day Calendar. There is a quilt pattern included for a larger 9 block quilt using Home Circle. Check it out on my Etsy site. There is a whole quilt made using the Home Circle blocks, along with 11 other quilt patterns AND 366 blocks in TWO sizes!