February 2007 Challenge: Blocks within Blocks! (Page 1)

Quilt 1

Quilt 2

Quilt 3

Quilt 4

Barb Vlack
Show and Tell

Barb Vlack
Tea for Twelve

Abbi L.
Through My Kitchen Window

Berit Pramm
Mosaics 2

This quilt was designed to showcase 6" blocks I received in an exchange with one of my quilting bees. There is no physical resemblance between these quilters and the real ladies in my bee, in order to protect the innocent. Faces are from the Viking embroidery library in the embroidery upgrade for EQ5. I purchased the set so I could actually make this quilt!

St. Charles, Illinois USA

 

The T Square blocks for this quilt were from a bee exchange several years ago. I contemplated for a long time about what to do with the plain muslin centers in the blocks, which were otherwise made from murky fabrics. I finally decided to applique folk art motifs into those empty-looking spaces, and I have just completed stitching a top that is very similar to this design.

St. Charles, Illinois USA

All blocks are from the block library. I just recolored to better match my kitchen colors and flipped the right hand blocks to look more like my kitchen windows. As Spring comes and I set flowers out during the warm days to "harden" these scenes represent what I see through my kitchen windows as I wash dishes etc.

Norway

Quilt 5

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Quilt 8

Berit Pramm
Fans in Mosaic

Barbara Gilstad
From My Window

Barbara Gilstad
From My Window... Spring!

Brenda Stultz
Off Center Log Cabin Sampler

Norway

Texas

Texas

I chose a variety of blocks from EQ5 to create an off center log cabin layout for a BOM quilt with 12 8" blocks.

Fairmount, IL

Quilt 9

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Quilt 11

Quilt 12

Brenda W
Embroidery Quilt

Brenda W
Patch Blocks

Charlotte Kleiner
Butterfly Garden I

Charlotte Kleiner
Butterfly Garden II

 

 

BlockBase 2192 or Dutch Puzzle (Aunt Martha) was used for the base block. I then merged the butterflies from the EQ Library into the centre. This quilt uses a horizontal setting. I made a block to fit in the border blocks which is a duplicate of one side of BlockBase 2192.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

BlockBase 2192 or Dutch Puzzle (Aunt Martha) was used for the base block. I then merged the butterflies from the EQ Library into the centre. This uses the on-point quilt layout. Sashing is used between the blocks and I made a block to fit in the sashing which is a duplicate of one side of BlockBase 2192.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

Quilt 13

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Quilt 16

Carol Baldry
View from an Attic window

Carol Baldry
Attic Window Design

Claudia Chang
Garden Maze

Carol E. Skrube
Snowy Weekend in Wisconsin

I wanted to try a double merge. This proved I could do it.

Davenport, IA

I wanted to try a double merge. This proved I could do it.

Davenport, IA

Taiwan

Watching the snow this weekend I just knew I had to do snowflakes. The cat I had drawn some time ago from a picture of my "grandcat" and just made it a silhouette. The corners were done like scollwork and also the folds in the fabric.

Sheboygan, Wi

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Quilt 20

C.Wipplinger
Block in Block I

C.Wipplinger
Block in Block II

Daphne Stewart
Tangled Feathers

Daphne Stewart
One Dozen Spring Flowers

I filled this quilt with the same Blocks I used as the Layout: Log Cabin 2. For Borders I used the Auto Borders Tool > miscellaneous > handkerchief edge

Germany

This is another version with rotated Blocks in other colours.

Germany

Challenge option #2: "Edit a block with squares or rectangles. Draw your second block inside one of these spaces ..."

Instead of drawing, I copied the block 'Tangled Stars' into the center of the 'Feather Star' block. If I ever sew a feathered star in real life, it will be an only child so this is a one-block quilt.

This challenge was easy so I also experimented with the 'Set Thread' tool to soften the block outlines.

Sunnyside, Washington

Challenge option #3: "Use the new EQ6 "Merge Block" feature to put one block in the square space of another block ..."

The block 'Spring Flowers Corner' showed up in my sketchbook after I played with the auto-borders feature. I set this block into itself twice to get a three-spring block. I then drew a sash to connect the straight bands of the block.

More experimentation with the Set Thread option on layer 1 -- love this feature!

Sunnyside, Washington

Quilt 21

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Quilt 24

Donna Harney
Feathered Blocks

Donna Harney
Machine Pieced

D. Katherine Willis
Texas Piney Woods

Donna St Jean
Log Cabin On Top of Log Cabin

All blocks came from either EQ or Blockbase

East Hampton, NY

All blocks came from either EQ or Blockbase

East Hampton, NY

Using the "Create Quilt from Block" feature, I chose High Flying Squares as the layout and inserted various tree blocks that I found in the EQ6 block library. The rope-like border was created using the "Auto Borders" feature.

Houston, TX, USA

Log Cabin on Top of Log Cabin

Minnesota

Quilt 25

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Quilt 28

Donna St Jean
Attic Window Inside Attic Window

Elaine Grasher
Walking in the Woods

Elaine Grasher
Scenic Travels

Elizabeth VanPatton Kelbaugh
Peonies and Stars

Attic Window Inside Attic Window
(Attic Window drawn inside/ontop of Attic Window)

Minnesota

This quilt plays with creating a quilt from a block. The block used to create the quilt is "Flying Squares". Then I simply plugged in other blocks and did some coloring with the new fabrics in EQ6 and the next thing I knew I felt like I was walking in the woods. This must be due to the weather starting to warm up in Texas and I want to go camping.

Texas

This quilt plays with "merging" one block into another block. I modeled this quilt after the articles I had read in quilting magazines on barns being painted with quilt blocks.

Texas

With multiple blocks the secondary design is created with the peonies pointing in.

West Columbia, SC

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Quilt 32

Elizabeth VanPatton Kelbaugh
Star and Peonies

E Mossman
Unnamed

Gabi Girndt
Hawaiian Tees

Gina Andrews
Tribal Animals

This quilt uses my first try designing the block in a block. With the peonies pointing out, the secondary design formed by the peonies is not appealing.

West Columbia, SC

 

Paderborn, Germany

I am actually making a long, narrow wall hanging quilt with these animal appliques right now and they are fabulous! I am doing them in batiks.