Another Large Block

 

This morning I worked hard to finish this Moda Blockheads block before another comes out tomorrow.  It's a large 18" block once again.

It's amazing to see other quilters' blocks on the facebook site.  We all start with the same pattern but somehow end up with very different variations.  I'm realizing that my versions tend to end up looking pretty traditional even though they are different from the original posted pictures.

Once again I ended up cutting as I pieced to end up with the design I wanted. I was remembering that I learned long ago that men are better than women at spatial reasoning and of course I wanted to look that up to see if things have changed.

AI tells me that "on average, men tend to perform better than women on certain spatial reasoning tasks, particularly those revolving mental rotation and spatial navigation.  However, this is a generalization, and there is a significant overlap between individuals of both genders."

I remember in second grade taking some kind of standardized test measuring just this kind of thing and feeling hopelessly stupid and lost.  I can remember exactly where I was sitting in the classroom, remember the feeling of that realization that I was, in fact, dumb.  

Looking back now, I'm not sure that this was an appropriate test for second graders.  And I like to think that after many years of quilting and mentally and physically rotating lots of little pieces of fabric that my score has surely improved.