Playing with Blocks

Bear's Paw  (See also: 30 January 2010)

This quilt motif was designed around a Bear's Paw block.

Can I make it bigger?

Playing with Blocks

Bear's Paw

This bear's Paw block is my starting point. I'm going to play with it and see what happens.

Playing with Quilting

Nine Patch Placemat

This 12" x 18" placemat is made from 6 Nine Patch blocks.

How do I want to qult it?

Playing with Borders

Nine Patch (See also: 27 January 2010)

This quilt motif was designed using a Nine Patch block and another block.

Can I find a suitable border for it?

Playing with Blocks

Nine Patch

What if I create a quilt motif by using a Nine Patch block and an I-don't-know-what-to-call-it block in a Nine Patch setting?



I find this interesting.

Playing with Blocks

Broken Dishes  (See also: 12 January 2010)

I used these 2 Broken Dishes blocks to create this quilt motif. Now I want to add to it.

Playing with Letters

From My Pieced Alphabet:

Crowchild

Playing with Borders

Nine Patch  (See also: 23 January 2010)

This quilt top was designed using a Nine Patch block and an I-don't-know-what-to-call-it block.

I need to discover a border for it.

Playing with Blocks

Nine Patch

What if I use a Nine Patch block and an I-don't-know-what-to-call-it block in a Nine Patch setting to create a motif?

Playing with Quilting

Shoo Fly Placemat

This 12" x 18" placemat is made from 6 Shoo Fly blocks.

How can I use quilting to make it more interesting?

Playing with Borders

Shoo Fly Quilt  (See also: 20 January 2010)

This quit motif was designed using a number of Shoo Fly block variations.

It still needs a border. I'm going to see what I can do about that.

Playing with Blocks

Shoo Fly

Shoo Fly blocks are based on this outline pattern.

What if I start with a 3 x 3 grid of Shoo Fly blocks?  How can I color it to make life interesting?

Playing with Blocks

Broken Dishes

Using 2 Broken Dishes blocks I created a larger block.

What can I make with it?

Playing with Letters

From My Pieced Alphabet:

Beltline (See also: 11 January 2010)

What if I start with my Connaught alphabet and stitch around all the letters?

Playing with Borders

Shoo Fly Quilt  (See also: 16 January 2010)

 

This motif was designed using a Shoo Fly block variation.

What can I do for a border?

Playing with Blocks

Shoo Fly  


What if I start with this blue and white Shoo Fly variation?

What can I do with it?

Playing with Piecing

Flamingo

I found this free clip art on the internet.


What if I use it as my base art work and see if I can create a pattern for piecing a flamingo?

Playing with Blocks

Broken Dishes

Broken Dishes blocks are based on this outline pattern.

What if I start with the outline pattern and see what I can come up with?

Playing with Blocks

Broken Dishes  (See also: 12 January 2010)

I used these 2 variations of a Broken Dishes block to create this larger block.

Yesterday I used 4 of this larger block rotated to create an even larger block, which I thought quite nice.

Judy was not impressed (see her comments yesterday) and wondered if it might not look better if I used mirror image blocks.

Today we'll find out .

Check Them Out

There are two blogs that I go to every day.  I like them because they are about designing. One is about designing quilts, and the other about designing quilting.  I like them because they change every day.  And I like them because they inspire me.

I thought you might like to check them out.

Playing with Blocks

Broken Dishes  (See also: 10 January 2010)

Using these 2 Broken Dishes blocks I created a larger block.

Now I want to play with the larger block.

Playing with Letters

From My Pieced Alphabet:

Connaught  (See also 4 January 2010)

What if I make my Patchwork alphabet but instead of a variety of colors I just use two - one for the letter and one for the background?

This makes choosing colors simpler.

Playing with Blocks

Broken Dishes

I want to see what I can do with these 2 Broken dishes blocks.

Playing with Blocks

Broken Dishes  (See also: 7 January 2010)

This block was made using Broken Dishes blocks and Diamond in the Square blocks.

I want to see what I can do with it.

Playing with Quilting

Nine Patch Placemat

This 12" x 18" placemat is made from 6 Nine Patch blocks.


How can I quilt this to make it more interesting?

Playing with Blocks

Broken Dishes  

Broken Dishes Blocks are based on this outline pattern.

What if I start with a Broken dishes block and a Diamond in the Square block in outline form and use them in a  Ninepatch setting?

Playing with Quilting

Broken Dishes  (See also: 5 January 2010)

This quilt top was designed using a Broken dishes block.

How should I quilt it?

Playing with Blocks

Broken Dishes

Broken Dishes blocks are based on this outline pattern.



I am going to try designing a Broken Dishes quilt motif starting with the outline pattern.

Playing with Letters

From My Pieced Alphabet:

Patchwork

As quilters, we make patchwork quilts.  What if I were to make patchwork letters too? It's would be a great way to use up scraps.

Playing with Quilting

Card Trick  (See also 2 January 2010)

This quilt top was designed using a Card Trick block.

I need to design some quilting for it.