Wonky Progress

I have been working hard to unbalance my inner spirit-level and these are the resulting wonky centres of the quilt blocks.

What do you think?  Am I getting it?

Here they are all bordered up and (deliberately) trimmed straight to 12.5" x 18.5" blocks.  I still definitely see wonk in there though and am rather pleased with myself, if not mentally exhausted from constantly counteracting the intuitive.  Though, if you look at that centre block you will see that straight was definitely putting up quite a battle there.

I am pleased with these and they came together more quickly than I had imagined. Some nice straight ash sashing and borders next (breathing sighs of relief)!

In search of my inner wonk

I am on a quest to find my inner wonk.

You see, I have trouble with wonky.  Even when I try really hard to be wonky, I end up straight.  It must be how I'm wired.  My wonky house would have made any architect proud

I promise you, at one stage of construction this was really quite wonky,
but somehow just seemed to "correct" itself under my hands!

and my wonky stars, well they only just about wonked!

Anyway, these gorgeous fabrics arrived/have been collected at my house in the past fortnight for a very special quilt and to make it work I need to find my elusive inner wonk, fast!

This quilt will be for my brother and sister-in-law and I just don't think that a straight as a die, traditional block is really them.  So when I saw their newly decorated lounge in shades of grey with no accent colour present I knew that I wanted to do something like this but without the colour splashes.  I absolutely love Faith's take on this quilt and my preference would be to include the colours, but it will be right not to include them for this particular gift.

So, do I think I can find the ability to do wonky without straightening it out by some kind of natural quirky fluke that I seem to possess?

Wonky trial block.

I did a trial block and I'm sort of getting there but I really do have to fight to stop some kind of inner spirit-level from winning every time.  Thankfully if all goes to plan there are only 9 blocks to have to fight myself over!!