Dancing the Night Away

I have several projects on the slow boil

and a quilt on the Longarm waiting for attention,

but I find myself so easily distracted 

by small and relatively quick projects 

using blocks and orphans in my stash.

I noticed Bonnie Hunter had a wonderful free pattern 

for Dancing Nine-patches.

In my 2 inch strip box, I had some orphan braid strips

given to me by a lovely fellow quilter.

(Thanks Chris!)

So....

I chopped the strips up into 8" blocks 

(that meant I could just get 16 blocks!

Well, 16 with a one joined.)

And set them using Bonnie's dancing block method:

Now for borders, when I'm not distracted again...

I did however, put borders on this one....

I think border inspiration came 

from the Criss Cross Applesauce pattern

(again Bonnie).

I really must try and crack on with some old UFOs now

and stop making new ones!!