unliberated blocks

unliberated blocks

I’m a relatively new quilter and got started on the block lotto within about a year of starting to quilt, so I started making “liberated” blocks before I had ever made the traditional versions. So these blocks are the traditional versions of log cabin, Chinese coin, and shoofly. However the coffee cup is my liberated invention and experiment with some of the bias techniques and 2-layer cutting Sophie has presented us. The...

Read More

Andrew’s Lotto inspired Memory Quilt

Andrew’s Lotto inspired Memory Quilt

A couple of years ago my partner’s great-aunt died. He was close to her as a child and remembered fondly the bright floral print polyester blouses she always wore. When he helped his mother clean out his aunt’s home, he asked if he could keep the blouses. So he brought home this pile of shiny floral polyester blouses and asked me to make something out of them. I thought he was nuts at the time and I put the clothes in a bag in a...

Read More

A Reminder about October Fabric Guidelines

The fabric guidelines this month say: COLORS AND FABRICS Your blocks MUST contain BLUE and CREAM fabrics.  If you like, you may also add Tan or Brown fabrics . . .  or not.     All fabrics may be solid or tone-on-tone (TOT) prints.  A TOT fabric is a print where all the colors are different values/shades of the same color, so cream-on-cream, blue-on-blue, brown-on-brown.  If there is some black or cream in the...

Read More
Social media & sharing icons powered by UltimatelySocial