Fall Quilt Block Swap due October 15th

[katsdar]

Majack/Fenrosie Hey did you open your green and white blocks yet? Fenrosie were those the right mints?

 

[cathiesue]

I was going to make the star yellow and the background blue. Is that ok? Also has the group ever done appliqué? Drunkards Path is one of my favorite blocks and it can be appliqués or sewn. Also there are many, many arrangement for the blocks. I have a beautiful quilt with these as 6 in blocks. All scraps. Light background with a darker quarter circle. Just a thought.

 

[katsdar]

I was going to make the star yellow and the background blue. Is that ok? Also has the group ever done appliqué? Drunkards Path is one of my favorite blocks and it can be appliqués or sewn. Also there are many, many arrangement for the blocks. I have a beautiful quilt with these as 6 in blocks. All scraps. Light background with a darker quarter circle. Just a thought.

cathiesue, you are the artist, so if you want to embroider, applique, hand stitch, machine stitch cute what evers it is your block

and how ever you want to put your colors together, I'm new to the quilting world so drunkards path I'd have to look that up but we are open to any suggestion as long as it is good for intermediate blockers oh and we can forget the tequila but you can par take if you so wish, bet it would be a real drunkards path then. show pics we love pics here give directions I'm always up to trying something new

 

[katsdar]

Hello Ladies,

check this out

They call it the Merry Go Around quilt

 

[majack]

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Cathiesue, I love Drunkard's Path, especially as it is so versatile, but it is a difficult block. The reason I suggested not doing triangles was to make a nice easy block without worrying about points being chopped off in the seams when we put the blocks together. We should look for a block we all like. After the next one, maybe we should consider an applique block. Maybe we can design one just for us.

 

[cathiesue]

Cathiesue, I love Drunkard's Path, especially as it is so versatile, but it is a difficult block. The reason I suggested not doing triangles was to make a nice easy block without worrying about points being chopped off in the seams when we put the blocks together. We should look for a block we all like. After the next one, maybe we should consider an applique block. Maybe we can design one just for us.

True, I think it must have been one of the earliest blocks I learned not knowing it was too much for me I thought it was magic how the little bite fit right into the space.

i love a simple attic window where you can fussy cut the center piece. I'll have to look for it but I didi a swap a few years ago with a very simple pattern that was a mason jar...you could fill it with whatever you wanted...fabric i mean. My favorites were food and jelly beans. It was a rectangle not square. Anyone else seen it?

 

[Kassaundra]

True, I think it must have been one of the earliest blocks I learned not knowing it was too much for me I thought it was magic how the little bite fit right into the space.

i love a simple attic window where you can fussy cut the center piece. I'll have to look for it but I didi a swap a few years ago with a very simple pattern that was a mason jar...you could fill it with whatever you wanted...fabric i mean. My favorites were food and jelly beans. It was a rectangle not square. Anyone else seen it?

Yes I have seen several of them. The jar is a snowball done w/ a rectangle then a couple more rectangles most in the background color and one in the lid color.

 

[Kassaundra]

Here is a link to a pic, not sure if instruction are there too

http://quilting.about.com/od/quiltp...Quilt-Block-Patterns/Bug-Jar-Quilt-Blocks.htm

 

[coldupnorth]

Quote: I made a kids quilt out of the mason jar design a few years ago - the "mason jar" fabric had fabrics with bugs and butterflies on it. It turned out really fun. Not sure where the pattern went, however.

 

[Lacy Blues]

True, I think it must have been one of the earliest blocks I learned not knowing it was too much for me I thought it was magic how the little bite fit right into the space.

i love a simple attic window where you can fussy cut the center piece. I'll have to look for it but I didi a swap a few years ago with a very simple pattern that was a mason jar...you could fill it with whatever you wanted...fabric i mean. My favorites were food and jelly beans. It was a rectangle not square. Anyone else seen it?

My daughter's first quilt project was an attic windows. She did it in a 4H class and entered it in the county fair. I'll try to get a picture of it and show you how it turned out. It is only a lap quilt but it turned out really nice.