I still feel I have rather a lot of projects on at the moment but I’m slowly ticking things off my list. Some things take more priority than others, as they are time critical. One of these was some quilt blocks for Kate Chiconi’s latest quilt to raise money for ovarian cancer, it’s the 11th year of making these quilts, quite an achievement for Kate.

They’re alway teal coloured as that’s the ‘colour’ for ovarian cancer and Kate always finds a theme with a teal pun to it. This year it’s Teal Waters Run Deep, it’s an ocean themed quilt and we could choose whether we did an underwater block, a boat block etc. I plumped for two underwater ones.

I pulled out all my teal and sea coloured batiks out of my stash and my scrap box, I then went to a craft fair and one stall was selling a bundle of four batiks called Ocean! Well they fell straight in my bag! Having browsed on pinterest I found a wave block which I liked, most wave blocks like this just use two colours, I liked the way this used four.

The pattern is by Timeless Quilt Designs on Etsy, you could choose what size block you wanted and then just print the pattern off. The instructions are basically a video of someone making the block, which did make the whole process a lot clearer, it’s basically made of four square blocks. I would have liked however to have some measurements too, such as the size of the squares part way through. The pattern is all triangles so I found it easier to cut slightly bigger and then trim to size.

I also laid out all the pieces before hand so I knew I was getting the fabrics in the right place. Having made one 6″ block, apart from the final triangle, working out how it went together, I made the other three at the same time which worked out better for checking seams etc.

I’m pleased with how it’s come out, not sure I’d like to make a whole quilts worth though! The colours are not so contrasting as it looks in the photo.

I’ve already got the next block laid out, I just need to stitch it together.