I'd had some light blue print fabric I got sick of looking at since I'd had it so long so I set out to do something, anything with it. I started making a simple courthouse step block with some varied hued burgandy but thought it was boring. Everyone has blocks they really like and I'm no different but I also have two that I do _not_ like and courthouse steps happens to be one. I folded back some burgandy that I'd dyed, added it to the corners but still thought it was boring so I stitched some embroidery in light blue on some of those. I puttered and turned a bit here and there. It was okay, so I made a second one but still thought it was fairly uninspiring so I tossed them both onto the bed and stopped and stared. Suddenly I saw at least 3 separate patterns in there for the first time. You could have knocked me over with a feather. This was totally unplanned and I realized this is why I continue to quilt, why quilting has yet failed to ever become boring. I managed to make a full size top until I ran out of one of the essential fabrics.
- What the heck *is* the name of this block anyway? I have a courthouse step, a pineapple and some embroidered pockets. Courtapple? Embroidasteps? What?
- How/what in the world am I going to do to quilt it?