Design Wall Monday #34

I have been having such a great time sewing on my surgically enhanced sewing machine. It was in the shop/at the spa for a month, and I was so happy to welcome it home this weekend! I happily sewed and sewed, and enjoyed every minute of it's perfect piecing.
And I was able to finish my Tetris quilt top!

I made 9 blocks and tried to mix up the layout. The bottom blocks are #1, #2, and #3; middle blocks are #3, #4, #5, and the top blocks are #5, #6 and #1. I spilled over the leftover squares from each block into the block above it, so each shape in the quilt is an actual Tetris block shape. And the leftover squares in the top blocks spill into the sashing.

The black fabrics in the top sashing are a little "busy" for my liking, but I decided to use all stash fabrics for this project and made do with what I had on hand.

My favorite thing about the quilt is the letters at the top. I tried to make the letters look boxy and in keeping with the block theme of the Tetris game.

I debated about adding a black border around, but it is already 50" x 63", and a good size for a donation quilt, so I'll just use a black binding.

This was a fun Quilt-A-Long and I was happy about the amount of old bright scraps I cleared out of the stash. To see other Tetris quilts, hop over to the Happy Quilting blog.

And to see more design walls, go visit Patchwork Times.

It's a great day in blogland land...not only can you see the Tetris quilt tops (over 30 already linked up) and inspiring design walls, but the Dots on Dots blog hop starts today - click here for the list of blogs to visit. My day is Wednesday and I hope you'll come back and see my new dotty project!

There now...those three events should keep us all busy this week...who even has time to work?!?!