If It's In a Book.....

then it has to be correct. Right? Hmmm....does the color placement on this block look sort of strange to you?

It did to me, so I started playing around with the color of the shapes to see what it would look like if I changed a couple of them like this.......

 Using my handy dandy gridded paper and some new colored pencils that I just bought, I then created a little mock up of the what it would look like with 4 blocks set together in a quilt. My idea to change the lower center triangles to dark brown (above) seems to make a more logical repeat of the pattern as you can see in my drawing below. (The dark brown triangles are yellow in the drawing.)

 It makes sense to me, anyway, and I had fun playing around with my box of pencils. I just love this time of year when many stores are starting to stock up on new school supplies. Every year the notebooks and folders etc. get prettier than ever! Love them!! I'm sure I'll be buying myself some new folders in the next few weeks...can't help myself!

 Anywho, back to the block at hand.....I've picked some fabrics and am going to give it a try. Now to figure out how to do it without templates....

 I wonder if I could paper piece it.

Come back Friday to see my block and if I end up using templates!