Fun + Ugly = Fungly

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When Tonya and Bonnie issued their Fungly Challenge, I knew I had to give it a go.  This was a fun one, though I realized later that my fabric choices are not as crazy as I would have liked.  Also, these are not all ones that I think are ugly.  Some are unloved, in the stash too long, some just hard to use. 

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I did enjoy this block pattern- Jacks on Six, but I took some liberties with it, as any good liberated quilter would.  My base squares are approximately 3.5 inches.  I decided I didn't want to cut my half square triangles to 4.5 because that was too confusing, so I cut them all to 3.5 (or so) and used them that way.  That's why they don't meet up and look a little more like bow ties on the upper right and lower left of the blocks. 

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The money block was the only one where I did try the 4.5 inch half square triangles, but I didn't like it as much.

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And now, I think I may have enough for a nice size lap quilt, except that I just went through the stash and came up with more Fungly fabrics.  Must make more!  These are quite addicting.  In addition to all this I used the excess triangles that I cut from the corners of all these half square triangles and made progressively smaller shoo fly blocks.  If that makes no sense you'll have to wait a bit and I'll show you how I did that.  Once you start playing with scraps, any little tiny bit of fabric is fair game and I tell you, sometimes I can't stop!  I also had fun with Bonnie's Leaders and Enders technique and made lots of little quilt units while piecing these blocks. 

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Saturday is my quilt guild's show in the park.  It should be lots of fun, except for being 100 degrees out!  I'm working at a table in the morning and then helping with the take down.  It'll be a long, tiring day.  I guess more quilt show photos are in the offing.  Stay tuned!

Thanks, everyone, for all the lovely comments about Better Not Pout.  You're all so sweet!