Palm Block

Not my best work, but the batting and quilting should hide what look like glaring imperfections in the block when laid flat.  It was done on a foundation which should have meant the block came out dead square.  However, the fancy cutting required to get the stripes to perform as shown meant many seams were not on the correct grain.  This REALLY showed in the block once the foundation came out.  I have seldom seen such a wiggly block.  :)  It was actually stretchy...

However, blocking it out with T Pins, steam and brute force improved things somewhat and it helped that it was one of the smaller blocks, which needed a background strip adding to bring the block up to size before its border went on.  I would imagine having both borders and background strips will stabilise it a bit, but they were still quite tricky to cut and the eagle eyed amongst you will note the slightly differing widths of band around the block that were needed to get it to square up.

I don't think any of this will notice too much in the quilt itself though, as I think the pattern will speak for itself and draw the eye away from the wonky seams.  I am very pleased with the way the stripes worked.  Getting them that way took patience and a fair bit of work with the seam ripper in places.  It was rather wasteful of fabric as I cut much larger pieces than usual so I could get the stripe placement exactly right.  It actually worked out better than I anticipated and overall I'm quite pleased with the outcome.