{"id":8765,"date":"2011-05-14T06:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=8765"},"modified":"2025-01-17T12:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:36:35","slug":"quilt-class-sampler-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/quilt-class-sampler-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilt Class Sampler Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sawtooth<\/a>
Sawtooth Star<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This post is kind of a roundup of the good and the bad. No ugly today, as I use GREAT fabric. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

This Sawtooth Star block is one I use to teach Flying Geese. I love the Dutchman’s Puzzle block, but think starting students out with 4 Flying Geese as opposed to 8+ is much kinder.<\/p>\n

The larger blocks are weird for me to make, because I like to make 6″ or 8″ blocks mostly. The good thing about making these giant blocks is that there is a lot of potential for fussy cutting and the Big Plain Jane print worked really well in this block. I tried to position the flower a little off center to add a bit of interest while not showcasing the white flower that is near the red flower on the print. I am really pleased with how cheerful this blocks looks. I am glad I am working in a turquoise\/aqua and red palette.<\/p>\n

\"Card<\/a>
Card Trick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Card Trick block is a great block for practicing triangles. It includes both half and quarter square triangles. If you haven’t tried the Card Trick, it is a great block as long as you pick the right fabrics. I, as you can see, did not build in enough contrast between the background and the light fabrics.\u00a0 There are a lot of seams and triangles in this block and you have to lay it out and piece carefully, because it is easy to get mixed up.<\/p>\n

As I work on this project I see these blocks set on point with red cornerstones. We’ll see as the time gets closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is kind of a roundup of the good and the bad. No ugly today, as I use GREAT fabric. \ud83d\ude09 This Sawtooth Star block is one I use to teach Flying Geese. I love the Dutchman’s Puzzle block, but think starting students out with 4 Flying Geese as opposed to 8+ is much … Continue reading “Quilt Class Sampler 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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[400],"tags":[349,331,132,380,142],"class_list":["post-8765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-blocks","tag-piecing","tag-quilt-class","tag-sampler","tag-sampler-quilt-class"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765","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=8765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65398,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions\/65398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}