Modern Block Monday - Selvage Strings

I went camping with my son's new Cub pack this weekend. If last weekend reminded me of what I love about camping (ie. being outdoors in fabulous weather), this past weekend reminded me of what I dislike about camping (ie. being stuck outside in crappy weather). It's was about 24 hours of rain and 1/2 of that time was a solid downpour. The kids still had fun so it was worth it. I'm completely bagged though and we have a PD Day today so all three munchkins are over. And it's raining outside again. Today should be interesting. Definitely a day to invite friends over to play. ;)

Speaking of playing, I've been wanting to try a selvage project for some time now. I even asked the wonderful women in my guild bringing me their selvages and they are so I'm starting to get a nice collection. I don't know yet what big project I want to do with them, but I figured that I should start small. This week's block is selvage strings by Bari Ackerman in 99 Modern Blocks. A perfect block to play with selvages. It was fun and I'm pretty pleased with the block. 

I have a problem though. Can you see what it is? The selvages are prints! Gah! I didn't even think about it until this was completely done and I put up next to some of the other blocks. It looks terrible beside them. So I'll redo this block with strings of solids at some point, but today I've got to go play with my kids. 

Completed blocks to date:

• Pinball Machine
• It's a Stretch
• Pogo Stick
• Everything Equal
• Woven Block
• Alleyways
• Boxed In
• Scrappy Asterisk
• Higgledy-Piggledy
• Binary
• Pebble Beach
• Parisian Star
• On The Fence - Modified
• Sew Mama Sew's October Block of the Month
• My Fibonacci block
• Diamond Ripples
• Four Acres
• Mondrian
• Sew Mama Sew's January Block of the Month
• Fractured Triangles
• Garden Lattice

Have a great Monday, all!