Every which way with curves!

Boustrophedon - won't lie, I had to look this one up. Text that goes one way in line one and the opposite in line 2.  I love writing and stories, not so great with languages but they intrigue me,  so I am a bit taken by written texts especially how cool looking ancient writings are.  I did think of trying something with Ogham (language of the druids) but surprised myself by not using text at all.  I started playing with curves.

So this one was more of a jumping off point rather than an end destination.  The idea of changing directions in alternate rows using mirroring seems to have taken a hold of me and I had a lot of fun playing.

Things got a bit weird! 

So I went back to the drawing board and simplified the colour and settled on this design:

Must be the quilter in me but I think I ended up with a quilt block as the symmetry works great left to right and top to bottom and when tiled looks like this:

And in other colours like this:

Next was how to test it and make it?  I had planned on curved piecing and had just competed a workshop with our branch of the Irish Patchwork Society, so had learned a new way to piece curves and it would be perfect for this.  Bit of a hiccup with this plan - we're laying new floors so that means, painting skirting boards so that means painting the walls and yes painting the ceilings too!  

Last week when I had planned on making this block, my lovely generous father in law got to painting the ceiling of the dining room where I sew.  So everything had to be moved including my sewing stuff - never turn down someone kind enough to paint a ceiling!  

So to make this design and see if it worked, I had to handsew.  For some crazy reason, instead of old fashioned piecing or applique, I decided to use EPP.  The block comes together in two ways:

And yes you can EPP curves but getting all the points to match with EPP in the centre was where I came unstuck.  

Oh well, wonky piecing!  I now know if I write this up as a pattern I'll make it twice the size to make the curves gentler and easier to piece, combine the shapes in the middle, and it will definitely be a machine pieced pattern.

After all the hand sewing, sorry to say I ran out of time to quilt it, so I left the papers in and framed it!

Not sure if this meets the brief, but I missed our last challenge due to surgery, and I got the all clear last Thursday and didn't want to miss this one, so I am posting about a framed two layer piece (fabric and papers!), not exactly a quilt.

I had so much fun playing, exploring, testing and making- really looking forward to what everyone does with this theme.  Thanks for a brilliant challenge!