Quilty Creations by Fawn: December 2020 Monthly Color Challenge

Yay!! We made it to December. This has been a challenging year in so many ways. Finding time that I thought would be easy to work in for my quilting has been a bit tough. This next year I will have to work on setting scheduled times for all my endeavors as I will also be going back to school. (Wish me luck!)

On to the December block. It is simply fun and fitting and beautiful. The color is red with the bird being the cardinal. I am fortunate to live in an area that we get to see these rather nosy birds year round. I liken them to the neighborhood watchdog. We live in a small village that has quite a few cardinals. When one watches you as you are out walking, it will literally follow you while sounding the alarm to the neighborhood and beyond that you are there and he is watching. It became so obvious that when I used to have my family childcare center and we were out for a walk, the kids would ask about them unprompted. Now that's a boisterous bird!

My block? The fabrics before being cut definitely had contrast. After cutting and assembly, the contrast is more subtle.

You can see in the final block above that the block design shows for the most part, however, the photo below demonstrates my concern for losing the color contrast once piecing started.

I was grateful for the pattern difference in the material as I feel this helped maintain the color contrast necessary to create what ends up being the cutest block of candies.

Once I placed the finished block into its space in the quilt, well, it became clear my fabric choices were just fine. The blocks around the December reds help to make the block design more prominent. We will see what happens when I get the sashing and border on this quilt. It already has so much life.

Now that you've seen what I've created with batiks for the year, keep scrolling to check out our quarterly sponsors and their respective prizes followed by the month's other bloggers. Please stop on over to see what fabric choices they went with or if they are creating the full quilt this year - or maybe two! Don't forget to grab your free block this month from Pattern's By Jen to get started and watch for an update later this month to link up your completed block.

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