This week’s block of the Fall Into a Quilt-A-Long is actually two blocks!  Woo-hoo!  Win-Win!

Kathleen McMusing made one pieced and the other applique.  I liked both but went with the pieced version since the other blocks are all large centered objects thus far, I thought I’d continue with that design.  Of course, there are seven more blocks to go and that whole theme might not work out!

As usual, I went through all the quilt designers blogs to get their tricks and techniques before I even printed out the directions.  One of the designers, Karen at Tu-Na Quilts had a color theory post.  Very interesting if you have any questions about how to pick out colors.

I’m almost out of my background fabric.  Scheesch.  Poor planning on my part!  I thought about switching to another light colored one but didn’t have any on hand and who knows when I’ll actually journey out to a quilt store to buy new!  I don’t want to order online because for this fabric I want to make sure it plays well with the others.

So here’s my version of the acorn block.  Hmmmmm…..I don’t think it looks like an acorn.  Maybe a little like a house with a green chimney.  Hmmmmmm….might have to do the applique block after all!

It looks better with all five…

So far, fun and easy!