{"id":8223,"date":"2011-03-23T06:40:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T13:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=8223"},"modified":"2016-05-23T20:31:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:31:38","slug":"bamqg-exchange-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/bamqg-exchange-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"BAMQG Exchange Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"BAMQG<\/a>
BAMQG Courthouse Square Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A few weeks ago I talked about the blocks<\/a> I was planning on making for the BAMQG<\/a> challenge. Here are the first two. I had an idea for these blocks, but I also had a couple of obstacles to the finished pieces.<\/p>\n

First, I had to find the rotary cutting directions. I tried to draw the blocks on EQ7 and wasn’t, initially successful. Through a series of weird coincidences, I found a block in the big Jinny Beyer block book<\/a> and had a pad of graph paper near handy, which allowed me to visualize the grid. Once I had that, I was able to draw the block in EQ7 (I was surprised not to find it there already there) and EQ7 generated the rotary cutting directions for this Courthouse Square<\/a> block. Update 10\/9\/2011<\/strong>: I found that this block is Brackman Number: 2815A. You can see an antique example of this block in a quilt<\/a> at the Quilt Index.<\/p>\n

\"Acorn<\/a>
Acorn chain in lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dandelion<\/a>
Dandelion by Michael Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I used the fabrics I showed in the last post and am pleased with how they came out. I was a little nervous about using the Michael Miller fabric, because I have it slated for another project. I slapped myself and used the fabric since I hadn’t used it in that other project yet and it isn’t as though I have a shortage of fabric. I think the block looks great.<\/p>\n

\"Multiple<\/a>
Multiple Square Quilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two blocks wasn’t enough and I still had some fabric, so I looked at the gallery<\/a> (I apologize if you can’t open the link) that Adrianne<\/a> made.I found this one in Jinny Beyer’s book also. It is called Multiple Square Quilt and is from a 1953 issue of the Kansas City Star. That book is a useful resource if you love blocks at all.<\/p>\n

I am thinking I will make one or two more, but I made a list of all I have to sew this weekend, so we will see how much I get done.<\/p>\n

It is kind of fun thinking about blocks in a different way and trying to make them modern. I still have more fabric, so I may make a few more blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I talked about the blocks I was planning on making for the BAMQG challenge. Here are the first two. I had an idea for these blocks, but I also had a couple of obstacles to the finished pieces. First, I had to find the rotary cutting directions. I tried to draw … Continue reading “BAMQG Exchange Blocks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[401],"tags":[137,349,315,72,59],"class_list":["post-8223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-bamqg","tag-blocks","tag-fabric","tag-group-project","tag-swaps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}