FWQAL Block #6 Big Dipper

Here is the second installment of my Farmer's Wife Quilt-a-long blocks for Week 3. I hope you enjoyed the Bat Wing block from yesterday.

Block #6 is the Big Dipper block:

Here are the fabrics I chose. I am still second-guessing myself:

 

I only needed one template for this baby, but boy did it get a lot of use. I needed to cut out 16 of the same pieces:

Here are all of the pieces laid out and ready to go:
 

 Here is the block! Overall, it went together pretty easily. Although they call this block the Big Dipper block, it is an hourglass block pattern and I LOVE IT!
 

Here are my week 3 blocks:

Here are all of my blocks so far from weeks 1 thru 3:

 You can see all of my progress thus far at my flickr account.

Have a great weekend!

xoxo