This month, the Cambridge Modern Quilt Guild's lottery block is an interesting one:
The block is an Improv Block in Kona White, Kona Black, and one accent print or solid fabric used lightly (not more than 20% of the block).
The unfinished block size is 11 inches (10.5 inches finished).
Please use whatever improv style you like.
In case you're not a quilter, some explanations:
- Lottery Blocks are something that many quilt guilds do. In essentials, there is a "block of the month." Everyone in the guild who wants to, makes 1 (or more) copies of that block. Entrants receive a ticket for every block they bring in. The blocks are then raffled off and one winner takes them all home. They now have enough blocks to make a big quilt!
- Kona is a brand of fabric. They are solid color fabrics and many Modern Quilters consider them to be the "only" solids.
- Improv piecing is a method of creating a block without a pattern. Some quilters refuse to even use a ruler when improv piecing.
This is the first block that I made:
I looked at it and decided that I had overly complicated the situation.
So then I made these two blocks in half the time it took me to make just the first one!
Not only were they quicker to make than the first one, but I like them A LOT more too! In fact, I can imagine both of these compositions being translated into much larger work.
Something I learned during my two weeks with Nancy Crow, was to create fabric "sketches." It's a lesson that I had actually forgotten until I made these blocks and suddenly thought: I'd like to see that on a larger scale. Something to think about for a future project!
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I actually really like the “overly complicated” one too. I like them all!
I actually really like the “overly complicated” one too. I like them all!
I actually really like the “overly complicated” one too. I like them all!
I actually really like the “overly complicated” one too. I like them all!
I actually really like the “overly complicated” one too. I like them all!
I actually really like the “overly complicated” one too. I like them all!
I actually really like the “overly complicated” one too. I like them all!
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Love them all! I meant to write on the post with the tour of your beautifully renovated home. So exciting! So happy for you that you will be able to nest in your new space before the baby is born. What timing!! Enjoy it all. Looks amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Love them all! I meant to write on the post with the tour of your beautifully renovated home. So exciting! So happy for you that you will be able to nest in your new space before the baby is born. What timing!! Enjoy it all. Looks amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Love them all! I meant to write on the post with the tour of your beautifully renovated home. So exciting! So happy for you that you will be able to nest in your new space before the baby is born. What timing!! Enjoy it all. Looks amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Love them all! I meant to write on the post with the tour of your beautifully renovated home. So exciting! So happy for you that you will be able to nest in your new space before the baby is born. What timing!! Enjoy it all. Looks amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Love them all! I meant to write on the post with the tour of your beautifully renovated home. So exciting! So happy for you that you will be able to nest in your new space before the baby is born. What timing!! Enjoy it all. Looks amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Love them all! I meant to write on the post with the tour of your beautifully renovated home. So exciting! So happy for you that you will be able to nest in your new space before the baby is born. What timing!! Enjoy it all. Looks amazing! Thanks for sharing.
I really like the last 2. the first 1 is too much for me but really cool.
I really like the last 2. the first 1 is too much for me but really cool.
I really like the last 2. the first 1 is too much for me but really cool.
I really like the last 2. the first 1 is too much for me but really cool.
I really like the last 2. the first 1 is too much for me but really cool.
I really like the last 2. the first 1 is too much for me but really cool.
I really like the last 2. the first 1 is too much for me but really cool.