![4 'A' Blocks](https://www.artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/wpid-wp-1433050101936-270x300.jpeg)
Yesterday was a BAMQG Improv class at Always Quilting with Tina Michalik. I really liked it and it wasn’t long enough, mostly because I was on a roll sewing and wanted to keep it up. Mostly I took it as a reward for smiling and being the perfect soon-to-be First Lady.
I wouldn’t really start an Improv quilt on my own in my workroom. It isn’t that I don’t like the technique, the issue is that I have other things to work on and the technique never comes to mind.
The last Improv quilt I made was the Women’s Work quilt I started in the Gwen Marston workshop. I like that quilt and remember the freedom I felt making the blocks. There was a similar feeling in the class yesterday. I think because of the constraints on my time lately I really liked that feeling of freedom.
I switched around the background and foreground so the red is actually the foreground according to Tina’s pattern. I wanted the interplay of the prints as the background. I may have been wrong in that choice as I am not liking what I have made so far. I like the interplay of fabric motifs and the black, white, greys with the red, but the center is too cross like. The center is sewn together, but I am considering unsewing and resewing in the way that Tina suggested. I am a little angry at myself because I did not even turn the blocks in Tina’s direction to consider laying them out with the red as the negative space.
![Kelly's 'A' Blocks](https://www.artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/KellysImprov-300x289.jpg)
Kelly used some Alison Glass and Anna Maria Horner prints and I love the way hers looks.
Regardless, I want the prints area to be fatter, so I think taking the four blocks apart is in my future.
I’ll have to think about it.