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Title: Block of the Month - June - Kimono
Post by: Iminei on June 01, 2017, 08:31:40 AM
Flaming June at last

and in honour of Junes Japanese Sewalongathon

May I present


The Kimono Block

https://goo.gl/photos/NEDqD55voVkBoyYf8 (https://goo.gl/photos/NEDqD55voVkBoyYf8)

This is a large block .... mine measured around 20" x 16" after squaring up .....
which would make a lovely wall hanging on its own or a quickly assembled quilt with sashing and a border.

9 Blocks with 1 1/2" sashing and 6" border will make a quilt approximately  62" x 74".
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: maliw on June 01, 2017, 15:30:20 PM
Thanks Iminei, that is one big block compared to the others.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Lilian on June 01, 2017, 16:51:32 PM
That looks lovely Imi, I can do this in between the Japanese Sewalong for a break  :)
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Sandra on June 02, 2017, 09:26:43 AM
I've jumped straight in with this one while I've got a bit of time.

I have four bridesmaids dresses hanging up, waiting to be altered, (two are for next Saturday  :S), and I have another five to come,(wedding in August), which I've been phoned about...just awaiting their arrival. So I'm not sure how much sewing fun-time I'm going to be able to find.

I used some of my vintage kimono fabric for the mauve-y pink, and also the edging. Took me ages to rummage through my old boxes of stuff to find something which I liked the look of.
The kimono is a silk crepe, so it's got natural stretch to it...not ideal for patchwork. The off-white edging is also vintage kimono. It has a beautiful subtle sheen to it, which you can't see from the pictures...it's woven with a very fine silver thread.

(http://i.imgur.com/IJ4Lr9Jm.jpg)

Slightly distorted out of size due to the crepe, but I couldn't stop myself from using up some of my stash. Will definitely finish this off as a wall hanging.
Not entirely sure about the yellow strip. -<

Thanks Iminei. I like this one.

Sandra.
xxx
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Iminei on June 02, 2017, 09:35:39 AM
Well done Sandra, absolutely beautiful!

Wish I had a close up pic to truly appreciate the kimono silks. Agree about the yellow tho (unless there is some yellow in the fabric somewhere) also love you background...I used that as the border for the UT.

Lovely stuff and you're first through the BOM HOF's door this month... Off you go ....

:angel:


Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Ploshkin on June 02, 2017, 10:04:03 AM
Beautiful fabric Sandra.  Actually, I like the yellow.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Sandra on June 02, 2017, 10:54:14 AM
Thank you!

I've tried to get a picture of the fabrics for you. It still hasn't picked up on the silver shine properly, but it's a better close-up.

(http://i.imgur.com/QIhgY9Ul.jpg)

The off-white fabric is printed with fans but I've cut into it to just get the plain colour. The fans are orangey shades so wouldn't have worked with this block.

Sandra.
xxx
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Lowena on June 02, 2017, 10:54:46 AM
Lovely, Sandra, you are clever  :)
Not a block for me methinks but will enjoy looking at others  :)
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Iminei on June 02, 2017, 10:55:47 AM
Your block Low, is coming next month as a small project!!!   :devil:
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Lowena on June 02, 2017, 10:58:41 AM
I don't mind not doing the blocks Imi, I'd only throw them away anyway as they would all come out different sizes if I made them  :D This one would be far too big for me....and I hate wallhangings  ;)
I love to see other people's though, it's amazing how different they can look from each other.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: maliw on June 08, 2017, 17:46:05 PM
Done it, not pressed properly yet.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Lowena on June 08, 2017, 17:46:43 PM
Very nice Mali
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Iminei on June 08, 2017, 18:11:44 PM
Lovely Mali...

Into TSP BOM HOF you go...

:angel:
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Cheesecake on June 18, 2017, 18:29:15 PM
Here is my June block.  The kimono body fabric and lining strip fabrics have gold metallic highlights.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: wrenkins on June 18, 2017, 19:20:07 PM
Ooooh! Lovely. Very tasteful Cheesecake.  :loveit:
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: maliw on June 18, 2017, 21:23:03 PM
Love the fabric Cheesecake, very kimono-ish.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Iminei on June 19, 2017, 07:06:23 AM
Beautiful Cheesecake, Off you go ...

Into the BOM HOF with you ...

:angel:
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Ploshkin on June 19, 2017, 13:31:19 PM
Here is my BOM.  For those who haven't ventured on to the Japanese sewalong thread, the 3 kimono fabrics are the ones I am using for my Japanese garment - a kimono style robe.  The background fabric is the wrong side of some cotton lawn left over from a top I made.  I found it a bit tricky using 3 different types of fabric, especially the floppy lawn, and of course, was on the penultimate bit before it occurred to me that I could have used starch.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Iminei on June 19, 2017, 13:40:56 PM
Oh Plosh, that's beautiful and a preview of whats to come me thinks...

Off you pop into the BOM HOF with you

:angel:

Just to say Thank you for everyone submitting their blocks, I was beginning to think BOM had lost its appeal!
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Ploshkin on June 19, 2017, 13:47:46 PM
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I was beginning to think BOM had lost its appeal!

There are a lot of things competing for my time at this time of year especially if the weather is half decent.  I've had visitors all weekend so I felt like a quiet couple of hours to myself in the sewing room - it's too hot to do much outside in the middle of the day anyway.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Pearl on June 19, 2017, 14:17:57 PM
Quote from: Iminei on June 19, 2017, 13:40:56 PM
I was beginning to think BOM had lost its appeal!

I'm not going to participate this month as I don't have any suitable fabric, but I'll definitely be back in July. :flower: <3  :flower:
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: wrenkins on June 19, 2017, 15:29:08 PM
I luuurv that Ploskin. You can swank about in your new robe and match the cushion/framed block/whtever you decide to do with it.
I just love that fabric. I've managed to not buy it because I bankrupted myself on Craftsy but it's still on my watch list.  :ninja:
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: maliw on June 19, 2017, 16:51:43 PM
Quote from: Pearl on June 19, 2017, 14:17:57 PM
I'm not going to participate this month as I don't have any suitable fabric, but I'll definitely be back in July. :flower: <3  :flower:
I did mine with the same fabric that I've used for the other blocks, no Japanese type fabric in sight.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: maliw on June 19, 2017, 21:11:33 PM
Ok a bit of an update - I put all my blocks together and so far we have -
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Lowena on June 20, 2017, 02:08:03 AM
Gosh, they look great Mali  :)
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Iminei on June 20, 2017, 06:26:24 AM
Oh the Shame!!!

I really didn't think it through properly did I ?

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry.....  (Goes and stands facing a corner)
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Pearl on June 20, 2017, 07:22:50 AM
Where is the shame, Imi?  What have you done, apart from given us the opportunity to try lovely, new thongs? :[
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Iminei on June 20, 2017, 07:28:27 AM
Most BOM'ers achieve a uniform size of block so you can construct them into something usable at the end of the year.

I just started this to keep myself out of trouble and active over the year, so didn't even think about uniformity and sizes as can be very clearly seen from Malis ramshackle (my ramshakleality) collection.

and next months BOM (well the one I have been thinking of) will, I'm afraid, carry on the theme!
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Lowena on June 20, 2017, 09:07:43 AM
 :D :D I thought they would make an "interesting" quilt .... not to mention some ( surely uncomfortable )  thongs for Pearl  :D :D
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Pearl on June 20, 2017, 09:33:02 AM
 :| THINGS. <note to self - proof-read posts>
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: wrenkins on June 20, 2017, 10:40:52 AM
 :D   :D   :D   0_0
First belly laughs of the day.
I love the planning process so now the "thing" is...mmmm....how do we get around this slight setback.
There're always geese!
To celebrate successful completion I suggest we could have a thing thong!  :toast:
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: maliw on June 20, 2017, 12:22:06 PM
Don't beat yourself up Iminei, the BOM weren't meant to form anything, they were/are tutorials to get us to try different blocks - with VERY good results (not mine). I chose to use the same fabrics because that is what I found at the start. I put them together - on the floor to see what they looked like and took the photo. It's a great big THANK YOU from me because without what you have done I would probably still be doing easy stuff. Whether I put them into a quilt at the end remains to be seen.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: maliw on June 20, 2017, 12:23:40 PM
Quote from: Iminei on June 20, 2017, 07:28:27 AM


and next months BOM (well the one I have been thinking of) will, I'm afraid, carry on the theme!
Good.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Deafoldbat on June 20, 2017, 19:00:46 PM
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Most BOM'ers achieve a uniform size of block so you can construct them into something usable at the end of the year.

Well. I did wonder if you'd considered that aspect round about February...but there's absolutely no reason why you can't have different sized blocks. Next year's challenge for you all, should you accept it, is to find a way to set them together, or turn them into underwear/footwear (depending on hemisphere you will understand thongs differently!) :)
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Lilian on June 20, 2017, 19:56:54 PM
Quote from: wrenkins on June 20, 2017, 10:40:52 AM
:D   :D   :D   0_0
First belly laughs of the day.
I love the planning process so now the "thing" is...mmmm....how do we get around this slight setback.
There're always geese!
To celebrate successful completion I suggest we could have a thing thong!  :toast:

That gave me a belly laugh!! 
:D :D :D
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Iminei on June 21, 2017, 07:26:05 AM
Well. I did wonder if you'd considered that aspect round about February.

I considered nothing! I didn't even know whether anyone would take up the challenge, It really was an exercise to keep me doing something every month and not suppurating into catatonia ... Sorry!

And thinking about, Is that the end of the month looming up in my rear view mirror...Oh Dear!
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Deafoldbat on June 21, 2017, 19:04:06 PM
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I considered nothing! ... Sorry!

Remember: 'Never apologise, never explain'. (Well not often, and not in this case :D)
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Sandra on June 23, 2017, 20:48:58 PM
It doesn't matter to me about the sizes of the blocks.

I've been thoroughly enjoying myself taking part.

When TSF vanished, one of the main things that bothered me was that I'd not be able to do the BOM. I'd been looking forward to trying to keep up with it every month.

Sandra.
xxx
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Lilian on June 23, 2017, 22:46:59 PM
It doesn't matter to me either, I am enjoying the challenge and learning curve  8).  I didn't give a thought to making them all to match together, they will be used in some way with other things.

Thanks Imi, for doing these, I am grateful for the lessons  :)
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: rubywishes on July 01, 2017, 13:39:47 PM
I've just caught up with this.....I've been m.i.a. with the BOM but Im you must never think your mahoosive, substantial efforts and contributions are anything but fabulous and delightful. I for one could never keep up your pace of contribution, imagination and encouragement that you mete out time and time again. It doesn't matter one zot if the blocks aren't the same size...that in itself sets a new challenge for the participants along with the fun of trying new techniques and possibly using them again in other projects.  :flower:
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Syrinx on July 01, 2017, 18:58:54 PM
I wouldn't worry Imi. BOMs are all about trying new blocks and seeing what you like. You van make multiple of the same, or different fabric variations after you have tried them out. Fitting them all into a quilt is possible, just needs some thought - so repeat a row of the smaller ones, use some sashing to split up areas of similar design etc. Or make table runners, cushions, make lots of quilts out of blocks tested out in a BOM.

BOMs have always been a nice non committed way of trying new designs to see if it suits you. Not a way to get to a sampler quilt. Nothing against sampler quilts, but generally they have recurring fabrics and the blocks are all in a similar style - so a sampler of traditional blocks, of HST blocks, of Amish block, modern blocks, wholecloth pattern blocks, etc etc.
Thes BOM is not to create a sampler or a non sampler quilt, but to allow people to test out their skills on new ideas and on blocks they might never attempt!

If you would like some help on the contribution side I'd be happy to oblige. I've a tonne of inherited books I haven't yet done things from and have no real reason other than a sampler quilt and I never put it at the top. So contributing a block for people every so often would be great. I'd be happy to tackle some complicated ones that you don't like as well! And I need something to push me to make my cathedral mini quilt!

It's a lovely thing you've started. I haven't joined in because I can't find my fabric hamper and I'm eyeball deep in riding habit!
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Syrinx on July 03, 2017, 12:55:05 PM
Found it!

I knew it was in one of my books. This is how you manage blocks of different sizes :) it's from one of the many blocks and samplers books I inherited. Shows what can be done with different sizes :)
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: fajita on August 13, 2017, 20:58:08 PM
Nice and easy. Just what I needed today.

Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Sandra on August 13, 2017, 21:48:54 PM
You've been busy catching up.

That's lovely, Fajita.

Sandra.
xxx
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Pearl on August 14, 2017, 07:43:15 AM
Lovely job, Fajita.  Glad to hear that this one is easier.  I need to do this one.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Iminei on August 14, 2017, 10:46:18 AM
Lovely job Fajita ...

Off you go, into the BOM HOF with you ....

:angel:
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: twopence on September 25, 2017, 15:05:34 PM
Finished my kimono block last week so here it is.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Sandra on September 25, 2017, 15:35:04 PM
Oh, isn't that lovely!
The fabric's perfect for it.

Sandra.
xxx
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Iminei on September 26, 2017, 08:03:16 AM
Gorgeous .... Off into The BOM HOF with you, Twopence ...

 
:angel:
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Sewbee on September 26, 2017, 08:10:49 AM
I love all these blocks! I can't wait to learn how to do it all. I bought a little Clover gadget to make bindings from the quilt show recently but still have to learn the basics, including how to bind.

Seeing these blocks is really inspiring!
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Pearl on September 26, 2017, 18:25:43 PM
This (the bom) would be a great place to start, Sewbee.  If you have a look in the HOF, you can choose which block you like.
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Pearl on December 03, 2017, 16:49:04 PM
<channelling Etta James>   Aaaaaaaat laaaaaast!
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: maliw on December 03, 2017, 16:55:27 PM
Very nice - lovely 'Japanese" fabric
Title: Re: Block of the Month - June
Post by: Iminei on December 03, 2017, 19:53:15 PM
Hahahahahahhaa

Wonderful Pearl, wonderful

Scamper along to the BOM HOF please ....

 
:angel: