Modern Patchwork Blocks- Irish Chain Quiltalong

This week on the Irish Chain Quiltalong we had to take the units that we made last week and make them into complete blocks.  Reading the instructions, it seemed like it was going to be a lot of work and I was kind of dreading it.  However, since I am only making the baby quilt size (and that was only 8 blocks), everything went together relatively quickly!

Here is the completed stack of blocks...

And here is all of them on my design wall..

 

The hardest part was properly distributing the scrappy colors so that there was a good distribution of the colors and all the oranges didn't end up in one block.  The best part of this particular quiltalong so far is that there has been no real matching of seams :)  I would actually like to see this particular block that we made this week in a quilt by itself, I think it could be really pretty, it has lots of "movement" with the different sied colored blocks in it.

Now time to go back to dreading the applique block that is coming up next, hopefully it won't be too bad!

Also linking up with WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.