{"id":70500,"date":"2026-04-19T07:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70500"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:34:19","slug":"chaos-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/chaos-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos with a Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SueG had good results in a class she took with Libs Elliott. Remember I took a <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/quiltcon-day-5-last-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">class from her at QuiltCon<\/a>? While I wasn&#8217;t excited about the class, I did think she was a good teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am taking her Chaos with a Twist class, which is a Zoom class, so I can do it from the comfort of my workroom. This class has about 4 sessions and after the first (non-intro) session, I am in love. This process creates super modern, super creative quilts out of basic blocks.&nbsp; It truly exemplifies why I love blocks. You have to take the class to get all the details. After going through Libs&#8217; process I came up with the following design:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70503\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70503\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chaos with a Twist - out of the box\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chaos with a Twist &#8211; out of the box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We started out on paper cutting and pasting and drawing with pencil and the quilt above is what I came up with after putting the basic blocks into EQ8.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I moved blocks around and recolored some and came up with two versions of basically the same quilt top:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-70500 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/chaos-with-a-twist\/cwat-15\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-15-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Chaos with a Twist #15\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-70504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-15-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-15-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-15-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-15-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-15.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-70504'>\n\t\t\t\tChaos with a Twist #15\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/chaos-with-a-twist\/cwat-14\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-14-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Chaos with a Twist #14\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-70506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-14-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-14-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-14-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-14-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CWAT-14.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-70506'>\n\t\t\t\tChaos with a Twist #14\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I like the circles on the edges better than the chevrons (above photo). Having them in black looks a bit like a black hole, so I tried some aqua. EQ8 didn&#8217;t really have the turquoise I wanted, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>I was annoyed at some of the students who were afraid of various parts of the process, but everyone has to go through their own process, right?<\/p>\n<p>I want to start cutting fabric now and there are two more classes before we get to that point! I might just go for it and see what happens. None of these blocks are difficult to piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SueG had good results in a class she took with Libs Elliott. Remember I took a class from her at QuiltCon? While I wasn&#8217;t excited about the class, I did think she was a good teacher. Now I am taking her Chaos with a Twist class, which is a Zoom class, so I can do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/chaos-with-a-twist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chaos with a Twist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[9,311,312],"class_list":["post-70500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-class","tag-creativity","tag-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70507,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70500\/revisions\/70507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}