Quilt Guild Round Robin - Project 1

We're doing a round robin challenge at quilt guild - no, not the whole guild, just five of us.  I was so bummed when I found out that the challenge wasn't going to go over through the entire guild...but I think it's going to be ok.  It sounds like the few of us who do want to follow it through are going to have a blast with this.  Or I'm going to have a blast with this, and maybe the others will too if they don't hate my free-form style of quilting.  And blogging - because I'm starting my 'series' with a post of the first block I did a border for.  I forgot to take a snapshot of my block, so that will remain a mystery until I get it back.

Round one was triangles.  The block I got to start on was this amazing organic, baltimore album style block centered in concentric circles...and I was supposed to add triangles.  To me, triangles are not organic, and they rarely meld with circles.  So I did try a traditional-esque pieced border on the one edge of 60 degree triangles (because I love asymmetry) and then I incorporated this print I picked up at the AQS show this fall in DSM that just happened to go with the color palette from the block but is not something I'd normally have in my stash.

But it felt boring, and even though the rules said I only had to have 4 triangles to meet the requirements, it wasn't enough.  So I appliqued on a strip of half square triangles and let them meander across even though the next border is supposed to be applique.  I'm thinking that this style of block really needs applique throughout to make sense of it though, yeah?  I'm not sure I'm done yet - I have until March 14, it might need some honey bees or bumble bees floating around yet.

Ignore the camera strap hanging off to the right there...bah!