The inspiration for this quilt came from a photo of old architectural ventilation blocks. What if I overlapped and stacked the blocks? I drafted the basic "Tumbling Block" with an "Attic window" style center and five different orientations of the window. I played around with them on my design wall, overlapping, traditional with no overlap, meandering etc. I chose to stick with my design inspiration and overlap them in rows so they appear to be balanced on top of each other. I quilted the blocks in the ditch and the wavy background lines to give it the look of floating through space.
