What direction to turn

OK with my final days off over the holidays I was working, really I should say playing on a possible block for my month in the Free Bee Quilting Bee.  


You might have seen the earlier post about putting the block together here.  But to date I haven't shown the finished block, so with out further adoo:-

I like the block, but keep wondering if it's right for the Bee - ultimately lovely long blocks like this would be perfect but how would I 'show' them in the quilt at the end.  Then there's the question of being greedy and asking for a longer block than the usual unfinished 12.5"x12.5" block.


I started considering long single 'hourglass' blocks mixed with the smaller strips, and even drew a couple of doodles.  But it just wasn't feeling right, and again we're taking something bigger/longer than the normal block size.  So where do I go either with this block format or with a new block.  This lead me back to a little internet surfing where I found these quilts.

Trading Place by Janet Steadman

This quilt is so so like the shapes I have had in mind, maybe this is one I'll have to make myself and not as part of the quilting bee

Bamboo Boogie Woogie I by Liz Axford

Feather Friday Almost - Spirit Cloth

I'd forgotten that I'd linked back to lots of these fabric feather blocks on my old laptop - so .........  now I must catch up on what I've been missing and what I've forgotten about.

So a little more searching and a little more playing and I hopefully will come up with a block that will be suitable.