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My first blocks for Tamara

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I have to admit I was a little paralysed when trying to decide what fabrics to use for the feature fabrics in our very first block swap. Just to recap a bit: Tamara and I have decided to make economy blocks and include a feature fabric from the current year in the centre, surrounded by a solid, and then low volume fabrics.  We may change this up and swap the positions of the low volume and solids, but our feature fabric will always be the centre square. I was hard to settle on that feature fabric.  So hard people!.  Just so damn hard. It wasn't just that I don't really know Tamara yet, it was also because there are so many great fabrics released each year.  Trying to narrow it down and to just two felt impossible. I had a bit of a snoop on Tamara's instagram feed, but was still in a world of indecisive pain.  In the end I just decided to play it safe for the first block and went for a good old red, white and blue combo. For my feature fabric I used  the red Flock