Casualties with Rewards

This blog has spurred me on to good craft works!  But before the rewards came, you know casualties had to occur.  Here's the first one - my dining room table lost to fabric cut into wrong-sized pieces, fabric rip outs, and oodles of thread waste:

The second casualty could not be photographed.  Just think 'New Rotary Cutter Godzilla Meets Whayle's Pinkie Finger.'  Fortunately, I've recovered and have a beautiful inch-long battle scar that I'll only think of fondly when I can finally gaze upon my finished product!  Good thing I was working on red fabric at the time ...

Now for the rewards!  The block I first learned to make in my quilt class was pretty adventurous:  triangles!  I was proud to accomplish something other than squares and rectangles!  Then came show and tell at the next class ... ouch ... my block was the plainest out of 20.  I just have to be brave with color!

Back to the drawing board and WALLA!

I decided to go even more crazy and make a second block.  Isn't it amazing to see the transformation using the same pattern after mixing up the placement of the same fabrics and the same colors?  Rewards!