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The Emporia => Patchwork & Quilting ... Welcome to the Darkside => Current Projects => Topic started by: William on August 02, 2022, 13:16:06 PM
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Anyone have this happen?
I was playing around with some jelly Rolls that i want to finish Up and i came up with this Design (i am sure there is a Name for it..). I started to be fascinates by it and made 20 for a Baby quilt top. Somehow it Just happened...
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I think, from memory, thats called The Wilhelm block ... @The Goddess of Colour and Quilt Mathmagician and Archivist of All that is known ... would you agree?
What size are the blocks?
Are you going to sash between the blocks or turn them 90 degrees so the same colours arent touching when sewn together ??
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I can't find the exact replica of this in any books (including the Jinny Beyer one with more than 4050 pieced blocks)
In one way it's a variation of courthouse steps, but with only one round of "steps"
courthouse steps quilt block (http://)
Are you going to sash between the blocks or turn them 90 degrees so the same colours arent touching when sewn together ??
Here are the two ways; it definitely looks better with alternate blocks rotated.
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As soon as I saw the rotated version it started to look more familiar.
Number 12 here (https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/quilt-patterns-for-beginning-quilters-2821877) is a framed nine-patch. A nine patch block with a frame around it.
What you have designed is clearly a three strip rail fence block (https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/186688347042299526/) with a frame around it.
As with most blocks the effects can vary depending on colour placement; it would look very different if the outer strips, ie the frame, were all the same colour.
Rail fence generally is a very versatile (and easy) block to make, here (https://blog.maryquilts.com/2020/02/26/rail-fence-quilts/) are just a few variations.
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It looks great 😊
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I haven’t ever made up a block, but I have made ‘ accidental ‘ quilts by making a central block or group of blocks and then just adding various borders until I decide that the quilt is big enough to be finished.
I’ve also made quilts out of mismatched left over blocks - they can be interesting :laughing:
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Wow- thanks for the picture work @BrendaP !
The jelly rolls that i used on each patch are different so that aligned in the same position the bordering jelly rolls will be different. To be honest, i think i prefer when they are all aligned in the same direction, but i am not 100%.
The patches when overlapped measure c 110 x 150.
WD
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I'm no quilter but I think it looks more balanced with alternating directions.
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The patches when overlapped measure c 110 x 150.
:scream: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! :scream:
@William ... Whispers ... we dont do metric in the darkside
I dont think anyone realised you were using two different JR's ... that makes a huge difference ... as you've got the variety in there now.
To be honest, i think i prefer when they are all aligned in the same direction,
Your Quilt, your decisions!
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The patches when overlapped measure c 110 x 150.
:scream: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! :scream:
@William ... Whispers ... we dont do metric in the darkside
Hee hee hee. Pesky North Americans. :devil:
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@Iminei
Whispers ... we dont do metric in the darkside
Why is that? Presumably you have to buy the fabric in metres?
I think life would be much easier all around if we ditched Imperial measurements completely. Otherwise it’s a headache constantly swapping between the two, especially if you sew garments from ready made patterns (metric) then switch to cutting out patchwork strips.
After all, we’ve been metric for over 50 years now in the UK.😆
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I've noticed that most of the rulers etc are imperial. Thankfully I've found a couple of metric ones, though nothing with a nice big grid to make quicker work of lengthening and shortening and, doubly thankfully, I can jump between the two fairly easily. Except for temperature. Fahrenheit makes no sense to me.
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Yes we do ... which causes all sorts of angst for the mathematically challenged amongst us !!!
P&Q has always been in imperial inches ... Cest la loi, É la legge !
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@Iminei
Whispers ... we dont do metric in the darkside
Why is that? Presumably you have to buy the fabric in metres?
@WildAtlanticWay
USA dominates the quiltmaking word and they still use imperial for all things domestic (I think NASA have embraced metric though!) Most books, and many of the specialist rulers are American with inches. That's why darksiders use imperial. I'm old enough to be bilingual with measurements, at school I used imperial in needlework and cooking, metric in science and both in maths (and at Primary school we were shown, literally with a metal chain, that on a cricket pitch the stumps are one chain (22 yards) apart and that an acre is a chain x furlong (22 yards x 220 yard = 4840 sq yards.)
As for buying fabric - patchwork is is traditionally made by using up scaps, so doesn't matter whether it's a length cut from a bolt or bits left over from something else. It's the size of the cut pieces that matter; same as when making a garment. However my pet peeve is fat quarters. In UK (and all over the EU) where it's mandatory to sell fabric by metric units, a fat quarter SHOULD be a half metre cut from the bolt then cut in half vertically to make a piece about 50cm x 56cm (20" x 22") but there are so many places that sell FQs that only measure 18" x 22". I'm pleased to say that my local shop in Rochester cut FQ properly. 0_0
@William Your arrangement with lots of different fabrics works both ways, although it didn't work in the example which just repeated the one block. I personally would rotate alternate blocks but as Imi said, your quilt, your decision.
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I noticed that one repeating block when i looked at the "audition" photo and at least 3 blocks will be changed. <now when i look i see how changin the direction of the blocks might be good... Still thinking.
As per the Metric.. Even though we learned the metric system (it's the future!) coming to Germany and being faced with it in the daily life...
Units of length came around easily. Units of volume still befuddle me...
Anyway, i thought that since Britain was Metric...
The 110 x 150 converts roughly to 44x60 inches.
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@William
Anyway, I thought that since Britain was Metric...
DS1 was taught metric measurements at school. One day I found him carefully measuring something he needed to cut up. '....and five-eighths of an inch' he muttered. 'Inches?' I asked 'Yes,'he said 'they're much easier.'
Imperial measures were originally based on convenient things like the length of a typical foot, the span of your hand, the distance from fingertip of the outstretched arm to your nose (a yard), or to your opposite shoulder (an ell), etc. Metric measures don't have a similar history.
@Renegade Sewist 'Pesky Americans' indeed; your liquid measures, pints and gallons are smaller than the Imperial ones.
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I was taught exclusively metric measurements at school, and as soon as I left I had to teach myself imperial ones because they were still very much in use. I found I was far more able to visualise them, even before I knew that they equated to parts of the body.
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Try living here in France where metric is and has been in use for many many many years ( although some shops will still sell you a livre of something - that's literally a pound!) That said plumbing pipe - yeah I know how to live is sold in metric but the joints are in imperial - so you ask for a bit of x mm pipe but have to have y inches (pouces) of connections. Go figure that one one out!