Quilt-As-You-Go Sampler course

At the moment I'm taking a monthly "quilt-as-you-go" sampler course. Life's been pretty busy, so I'm lagging behind on getting things done, and have only completely finished one block, and am quilting the second. The fabric's cut for block three (Log Cabin) and we only had the fourth class on Wednesday, so I've got a bit of time to think about that one ;-)

The first class was hexagons - Grandmother's Flower Garden. A very old and traditional pattern. However, hexagons, I have decided, do Nothing For Me. Nothing. Zilch. Boring. Boring. Boring. I decided the only way I could cope with hexagons in my quilt was to do the Inner City variation:


Second class was piecing again. What Annie is doing is giving us three variations on similar kinds of patterns which vary in difficulty. The basic pattern was Card Trick, which I quite like, and the more complicated was a Six Point Compass. I like compass patterns, don't know why particularly. So this is my second block:


I won't tell you how many times I had to unstitch various parts of it to get the danged points to meet in the middle...