Dawn was looking for a new block to share with the quilt group next week. She shared the link to Suzanne McNeil's 5- minute quilt block with me and asked what did I think. I think she gets extra points for finding a block before I did--lol!
You can visit Suzanne's site and see the tutorial --
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I have a 'pile' of calico that has been begging to be worked. I had gone as far as to pull it out a couple of times but it always seemed to get back on the shelf uncut.
Well thanks to today being a SNOW day...... the rest of the story is yet to be written.
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| I am a fan of cut first and figure out the setting later. |
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| Here is my cut Yellows to be use in the center position as the triangle/geese. |
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| While I was chunky cutting my 'three' fabrics per block I made a pile to be sub-cut into 2 1/2 inch strips for a possible piano key border. If the 'keys' don't make it into the top, I will use them on the back. Hope is to bust this aging collection and get it all off the shelf. I will piece as much as possible into the back and the rest is going out the door to anyone who will give it a good home. More on that threat later- lol |
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| This is a very die friendly block. ... Cut three rectangles- You can actually do this with any size rectangle, I used my GO Die # 55005 (3 1/2 x 6 1/2) |
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| I choose to always use my dark (browns, blues) on the bottom and Yellows as centers and Red/Pinks as the other side. | |
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| The first couple I sewed I took time to iron. After doing about a dozen, I unplugged the iron and finger pressed, way faster. I am all about not going crazy making a utility quilt. No one every complains that a wrinkle kept them up at night! |
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| See how the bottom right looks a bit off? It actually fixes itself when I roll the edge. Promise! |
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| See all better and even better after it gets sewn- I use a chicken tracks stitch and white thread. |
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| Sew... here we go, two rows done and sewn together. Eight more to go for a 60 x 72 (ish) center. |
This is going to be a controlled scrappy, being that I am just using the three piles of fabrics. I divided each row of 12 into sets of 4,6,8, 12 of color A,B,C. So in the example, There are 8 red-a and 4 red-b matched with 4 blue,4 black,& 4 blue, The yellows are 4a, 4b and 4a.
The second row is 4 red, 8 pink, 4 black-a, 4 black-b, 4 blue, 2 yellow-a , 4 yellow-b, 6 yellow-a
I am hoping as I progress there will be secondary light and dark chunks emerge. We will see.....
