New Year Block swap

[fenrosie]

You tube "10 minute blocks" and all will be revealed!

 

[Kassaundra]

You tube "10 minute blocks" and all will be revealed!

Oh my!!!!!! Wheels just fell off the bus!!!!!

 

[Kassaundra]

Fenrosie, look what happens when you make the background blocks 3 inches and the inner block 5 inches, perfect cathedral windows!!!!!!! Perfect cathedral windows in 3 seams not including the top stitching of the folds

Oh I forgot to post the pic w/ the comment. lol




Now you can look

 

[FeyRaine]

You tube "10 minute blocks" and all will be revealed!

I'm going to have to find this too! I'd never seen a block like that before and could not figure it out but when I saw it I thought wow that would make the best scrappy quilt ever to do it in all blocks like that, then I thought who am I kidding must take forever, 10 mins? really??!! Back to thinking I've found a block for Quilt To Do #10 or so ;>

 

[fenrosie]

I was taught how to do this another way ,by sewing one quarter at a time and manipulating the centre piece round. I was away on holiday with some quilting friends and said I would show them how it was done. When I had finished they said " but we all ready do that but an easier way! Haven't you heard of the 10 minute block?" It's not the whole block that takes 10 minutes but each four patch!

 

[Kassaundra]

I have tons and tons of black fabric. I bought it over the years for making my work pants, but now I work for a company the provides them so I don't have to sew them anymore, and still have yards and yards (not quilting cotton, but I don't follow the rules when I'm doing my own thing, I follow them in the swaps though) anyway I think I see some cathedral windows quilts in my future.

 

[FeyRaine]

I was taught how to do this another way ,by sewing one quarter at a time and manipulating the centre piece round. I was away on holiday with some quilting friends and said I would show them how it was done. When I had finished they said " but we all ready do that but an easier way! Haven't you heard of the 10 minute block?" It's not the whole block that takes 10 minutes but each four patch!

There are so many clever new ways to do traditional blocks and it is always fun to find them, like its own treasure hunt, first find a block you like, then find the easiest known method to make it!
10 min / four patch, ok I've spent longer on applique blocks, I think this is going into one of my ongoing scrap block projects. Basically whenever I finish a gift quilt, then I spend a couple days working on any of several very complex tiny pieced projects I'm making for me, these have been ongoing for about 2 yrs now between my other quilts, I will get a quilt done for myself one day!

I have tons and tons of black fabric. I bought it over the years for making my work pants, but now I work for a company the provides them so I don't have to sew them anymore, and still have yards and yards (not quilting cotton, but I don't follow the rules when I'm doing my own thing, I follow them in the swaps though) anyway I think I see some cathedral windows quilts in my future.

I think it sounds like a great way to use that fabric! Re-use recycle and use up random stuff is the origins of quilting anyway. Sure for the swaps or specific projects the all cotton quilting fabric is the thing, but for your own projects anything goes and creative use of the stash gets bonus points in my book, so gold * to you for creative use of stash of black yardage, can't wait to see the results...

 

[coldupnorth]

So happy that my blocks came in the mail today. They are all so beautiful and I just love the colors! Mine looks very bland and boring next to all the others. My cat has already found the pile of blocks and scattered them across the livingroom. Doesn't she have anything better to do!

 

[Kassaundra]

So happy that my blocks came in the mail today. They are all so beautiful and I just love the colors! Mine looks very bland and boring next to all the others. My cat has already found the pile of blocks and scattered them across the livingroom. Doesn't she have anything better to do!

I loved your block, the gradating of color I thought was cool.

 

[FeyRaine]

I loved your block, the gradating of color I thought was cool.

2x

Personally I loved all the blocks, honestly ALL of them! Sure some were not as complicated as others etc but each block is just totally cool, each one has a really personal feel from the Artist and they DO all go together, nothing I would have picked to go together in a million years, but they do all work *as a set*, some of the more simple designs & calmer colors balance the more fancy and the more bright ones. If anyone still has doubts, my husband actually stayed out on the deck after he handed me the package and watched me open them and go through them, he looked at all of them and didn't walk away before I was done so that is a statement that all of them are attention getting and the set is very nice!

On a side (chicken) note. I'm getting a shipment of U of A Blues hatching eggs! Which the DH does not know about...I tried to buy these eggs in Dec 2012!!! I've tried again Feb2013 & Sept 2013 and it just didn't work out, so tonight, just now w/o warning I get the pm that there is a set of 10 eggs available to ship Sat and my name is now top of the list! ahhhh, well, after waiting what like 15 months what am I supposed to say...so the eggs will ship to me Sat, my bator is currently FULL but by the time I get the eggs I'm sure I'll have found some clears & early quitters so I just gotta juggle some $ tomorrow to cover this surprise and see if maybe the DH will happen to be at the other end of the property walking his now 40# 10week old mastiff puppy when I meet the mail lady w/ my eggs ;P , if not and DH says anything I guess I'll just smile and ask him how puppy training is going ...