Commentary about works in progress, design & creativity
This block is related to #28. I am still intrigued by series of squares.
This block could be made with a group of scrappy squares, monochromatic squares or two different fabrics, like I have done in the example.
Directions for Table Squares #49.
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This has been a great couple of months for donation blocks. I made a few more the past few days in between sewing for the Renewed Jelly Roll Race. I am unreasonably pleased with these blocks. I find them so fun to make. I am not sure why. The only thing I can think of is that there is an opportunity to play with a bit of color.
Tother thing is that they go together so quickly using Bonnie K. Hunter‘s Leaders and Enders method. My only stumbling block right at the moment is I am out of the kits the Charity Coordinators made, so I am cutting my own patches from scraps and I seem to be constantly short of the right color or background. I used some various black on white prints for the blue block above and hope that will be ok and not ruin the look the Charity Coordinators are going for. I am about to get out my Accuquilt Go! 2.5″ square die and cut a bunch of backgrounds for future use.
This block has a weird background, because I took the photo on my bathroom rug. As hideous as the carpet is in my workroom, it does make a fairly inoffensive background for my photos. We had a fairly dramatic shower of sparks which heralded the demise of the overhead light in my workroom. I have some task lighting, but the floor was just too dark for photos. The bathroom floor is small black and white tile, which, I thought, would have been too busy.
Yes, it is a brown block. The boys need quilts, too, and brown works for them. Green and blue, too, I imagine. This fabric is from the scraps of the back of FOTY 2011. I tried to get some of the words for these squares, because I like words on quilts. Letters (as in the snailmail kind) are even better.
These greens are, mostly, more boyish also, if boys can be pigeon-holed into liking certain colors.The Young Man adores red, not the greyed or browned down reds, but scarlet-type reds.
The blue blocks are definitely the ones I will make the most of, but it is nice to make some other blocks in different colors as well.
The one yellow-green (with the x-es) looks quite out of place in this block. I am glad there is another slightly yellow-green square in it (upper left hand corner) so that it is looks a bit like it goes. I am not ripping it out.
You will see some of the same fabrics in this second blue block as you saw int he first one. I hope that the Charity Coordinators will receive enough blue blocks with different fabrics to mix my blocks into different quilts.
I did fussy cut a bit on this one, in order to get that cherry and whipped cream into the patch rather than in the seam allowance. I thought it would be fun.
I have a small stack of squares waiting to be sorted into color groups. I try not to duplicate a fabric in the same block unless all or most of the fabrics are the same. I also have lots of scraps to be cut. I am trying to decide if I should cut larger scraps into 2.5″ squares so I have more patches to use or if I should continue to cut one or two squares out of scraps and leave the rest of the scrap for another project?
I had an incorrectly cut hexagon from the Flower Sugar Hexagon quilt, so I measured and found it would yield one 2.5″ patch. I needed a green patch, so I cut it. Nice to have fabrics from a variety of projects show up in these blocks.
I think I have made 11 donation blocks so far in the past two months. I have one more close to being finished and I have at least another week before the meeting. I think that could be a whole quilt. If I had a wish, it would be that people did not need to be comforted by the quilts I am helping to make.
Definition: In Euclidean geometry, a parallelogram is a convex quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides. The opposite or facing sides of a parallelogram are of equal length and the opposite angles of a parallelogram are of equal measure. The congruence of opposite sides and opposite angles is a direct consequence of the Euclidean Parallel Postulate and neither condition can be proven without appealing to the Euclidean Parallel Postulate or one of its equivalent formulations. The three-dimensional counterpart of a parallelogram is a parallelepiped.
The etymology (in Greek ????????-????????, a shape “of parallel lines”) reflects the definition.
rectangle
a shape
theorems for a parallelogram
not a triangle
a method of vector resolution
Parallelogram Lifts
area of a parallellogram
Android app
square
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I am really trying to get back on track with this project.I responded to the two most recent ones the other day while waiting at the doctor’s office for the Young Man. I could have put in more detail, but he came out and I decided that I wasn’t creating masterpieces. Done is better than perfect.
This was a nice exercise on trying to figure out how to make a window look broken. I am not sure I achieved it, but I think I made a good effort.
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I am not sure that blue is truly indigo, but I only had a certain number of colors in my ‘to go’ kit, so I had to make due.I thought of coloring over the blue with purple. What do you think?
Did you create a response to this prompt? Please share!
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If you put this block in a quilt with the same blocks, you could get some really interesting cross patterns.
This block is suitable for about 5 fabrics. If you did not use the same fabrics in the corners, then you could use more fabrics.
Directions for Corner Squares #48.
If you have made blocks or a quilt from these patterns, please post a link in the comments section of the relevant block or on the AQ Block-a-Long Flickr group. I would love to see what you have made.
iced tea
Tea Party
tea service
tea time
Boston Tea Party
tea chest
herbal tea
silver tea service
tea and crumpets
Imperial Tea Court
tea ceremony
ritual of tea
Lovejoy’s Tea Room, San Francisco
Cuppa
Republic of Tea
Definition: Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself.
After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world.[2] It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavour which many people enjoy.[3]
The phrase herbal tea usually refers to infusions of fruit or herbs made without the tea plant, such as rosehip tea or chamomile tea. Alternative phrases for this are tisane or herbal infusion, both bearing an implied contrast with “tea” as it is construed here.
tea garden
teapot
teacup
loose tea
tea bag
tea plantation
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I am still on the four patch / squares and rectangles kick. This block is related to the last few blocks.
The the directions for the 4 Patch Rectangle #47 are posted.
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I will be wrapping up the Block-a-Long pretty soon.
Try to respond with the first thought that comes to your mind.
Definition: Indigo is a color named after the blue dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and related species. The color is placed on the electromagnetic spectrum between about 420 and 450 nm in wavelength, placing it between blue and violet. Although traditionally considered one of seven colors of the rainbow or the optical spectrum, modern color scientists do not usually recognize indigo as a separate division and generally classify wavelengths shorter than about 450 nm as violet.[2] Optical scientists Hardy and Perrin list indigo as between 446 and 464 nm wavelength.[3]
The first recorded use of indigo as a color name in English was in 1289.[4]
indigo plantation
indigo children
indigo restaurant in San Francisco
Pokemon Indigo
Macintosh home control server
A chapter in Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
the Indigo Girls
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This is related to last week’s block and would also make a great quilt by turning some of the blocks horizontally.
The maker could also line all the blocks up vertically and have long columns of squares and rectangles.
There are a number of options for laying this block out in a quilt with similar blocks.
The squares included in this design would be a good use for scraps and also for the Leaders and Enders technique.
The directions for this 2 Square Columns block are included.
If you have made blocks or a quilt from these patterns, please post a link in the comments section of the relevant block or on the AQ Block-a-Long Flickr group. I would love to see what you have made.
I am going to wrap up this Block-a-Long pretty soon.
penniless
Broke, New South Wales, Australia
2 Broke Girls – CBS
broke promises
the vase broke
go for broke
dead broke
the couple broke up
broke the news
broke the bank
broke the system
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As I have said many times, there are almost an infinite number of variations that can be created from one block. This is similar to last week’s block.
Again, you probably really only need the sizes to cut to make this block, but I am posting the 2 Columns 2 Split Columns Rectangle directions for your ease.
If you have made blocks or a quilt from these patterns, please post a link in the comments section of the relevant block or on the AQ Block-a-Long Flickr group. I would love to see what you have made.
Restaurant in San Francisco
Dixie Chicks album: Fly
Flying nun
The Fly (movie)
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don’t slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
William Lyon Phelps (Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/fly.html#ixzz1nGXxFEeg)
Must fly!
Fly Lady
Definition #1: True flies are insects of the order Diptera (from the Greek di = two, and ptera = wings). They possess a pair of wings on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax. Apart from secondarily flightless insects (including some flies), the only other order of insects with any form of halteres are the Strepsiptera, and theirs are on the mesothorax, with the flight wings on the metathorax.
tent fly
horse fly
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash (Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/fly.html#ixzz1nGYT26cW)
your fly is open
strength training exercise
a pattern run by a receiver in American football
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Fly River
HMS Fly
fly ball
how birds move from place to place
on the fly
house fly
aviation
The brand of universal youth fashion culture
fly.twitter.com
high fly ball
Definition #2: (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
As I mentioned, there is no BAMQG meeting for March. We still have blocks to make. I made K, which you know, and L in now done. M and N are April blocks and I will get going on those soon.
In looking at all of the A-B-C challenge blocks on my design wall, I also decided that I needed another block with the same on point symmetry as the Basement Window block.
I don’t know why this block is called Lincoln, but I chose it for my L block, because of the on point symmetry. I, now, only have two of these kinds of blocks and need at least three, so I’ll have to find another one.
I chose the colors, because in looking at the whole group of blocks, I thought that I needed to use more of that light green-y yellow.
There are 33 pieces in this block, in case you were wondering.
I know people were having fits with last week’s block. I heard about it. Did you make it?
I am cutting you some slack this week. 2 Columns-2 Split Columns is another easy block. It would be really effective in a quilt if you made a bunch of them and turned some vertically and some horizontally, Rail Fence fashion. I am really loving rectangles right now, so look for more.
You probably really only need the sizes to cut to make this block, but I am posting the 2 Columns 2 Split Columns directions anyway.
If you have made blocks or a quilt from these patterns, please post a link in the comments section of the relevant block or on the AQ Block-a-Long Flickr group. I would love to see what you have made.